Retired businessman Ted Cunningham has been refused an extension of time to appeal his failed High Court challenge in which he claimed the State unlawfully seized some £3m (€3.4m) from his home which gardaí alleged was part of the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery in Belfast in December 2004.

Denmark has reported the local operations of Ernst & Young and KPMG to the police amid a widening crackdown on money laundering in the country.

New York’s financial regulator is asking two Nordic banks for detailed information about their transactions with Danske Bank as part of a burgeoning investigation into global money laundering.

It seems increasingly clear that Danske Bank was far from alone in its involvement in one of the world’s biggest money-laundering scandals.

Danske Bank has again apologised over its failure to monitor around €200bn in suspicious transactions that went through its Estonia branch over many years, as the lender posted a sharply lower net profit of 15bn Danish krone (€2bn) for 2018, in what it described as a “challenging year”.

Norwegian Air gained the backing of Norway’s richest man, providing some stability to the struggling discount carrier as it searches for a new suitor following IAG’s decision to abandon its eight-month pursuit.

An international criminal investigation into Danske Bank has led to the first group of bankers being apprehended, and prosecutors say more will probably follow.

The European Commission has announced what it describes as the European Investment Bank's largest-ever support for agri-business in Ireland.

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At least 5,000 more customers could be affected by the tracker mortgage fallout, while the final bill could be “well above” €1bn, according to the financial advisor who exposed the scandal, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Portuguese debt led a rally in eurozone peripheral bonds after S&P Global Ratings raised the country’s credit rating to investment grade.

Davy has further expanded its wealth management business in the North by acquiring part of Danske Bank’s wealth unit for a sum believed to be between £5m (€5.65m) and £10m.

A High Court judge has refused a bank's bid to halt an action by a woman alleging a bank manager obtained false income details to support a property investment loan application.

A Court of Appeal judge has voiced concern and regret that some personal litigants are incurring more debt due to taking mainly incorrect advice from people with no legal qualifications and “no real understanding of the law or the rules of court”.

A Cork woman has rejected claims by accountancy firm Grant Thornton she disseminated or has retained any confidential material contained on a computer disk mistakenly sent by the firm to her.

Global shares slumped and gold climbed yesterday as investors crowded into haven assets after the latest US presidential polls suggested a tighter race.

Portugal’s bonds rose the most since June after the country’s finance chief said that rating company DBRS has a positive assessment of the nation’s fiscal efforts, strengthening the government’s conviction that it will keep its investment-grade rating.

A businessman who bought and did up a Kildare hotel which later went into receivership has had summary judgment for €6.3m entered against him in the High Court.

Protection granted last month to developer James Nugent of Maple 6 in Dublin in respect of a multimillion euro bank debt was removed at the High Court sitting in Cork yesterday.

The entry of Pepper Homeloans is good news but will fail to loosen to any significant extent the grip Bank of Ireland and AIB holds over the Irish mortgage market, a leading mortgage expert has said.

Danish households, the world’s most indebted, are refusing to take on more credit.

Cork-based international engineering group Kentech sharply pared its losses to $2m (€1.88m) last year.

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Jim Nugent, who famously gave a “dig-out” to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has had the €1.3m D4 apartment at Haseldene, Ballsbridge, handed back to a bank.

The euro fell for a third day yesterday, its longest stretch of losses this month, on speculation that European Central Bank president Mario Draghi will consider adding to monetary stimulus.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has again rejected any possibility of his party forming a post-election coalition with the “mafia-like” Sinn Féin, despite colleagues and one senior Sinn Féin TD insisting a deal could be struck.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson has rejected allegations he was to receive any payment linked to Northern Ireland’s largest ever property sale.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson has rejected allegations he was to receive any payment linked to the North's largest ever property sale.

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy has insisted that the Association’s disciplinary structures do not need change despite a number of recent controversies.

Danske Bank raised its full-year profit forecast yesterday, after its earnings beat expectations and said it would run its Northern Ireland arm as a standalone business, fuelling speculation of a sale.

After pursuing the toughest of tough negotiating lines, markets declared Angela Merkel and German bonds the victors from the weekend EU leaders’ summit by granting Greece a new €86bn bailout for three years without conceding to the demands of Greek leader Alexis Tsipras.

Borrowers who are banking on a judicial Fifth Cavalry riding to the rescue may have to think again, if a recent decision of the new Court of Appeal is anything to go by.

The importance of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane rescuing Ireland’s Euro qualification ambitions in the autumn has again been highlighted by the latest set of published FAI accounts.

The rejection of a couple’s complaint that a bank breached a loan contract by increasing the variable rate on their mortgages was a correct decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

A Co Kildare farmer has avoided being jailed a second time for contempt after undertaking before the High Court to comply with orders to hand over vacant possession of farm buildings on his property to a bank appointed receiver.

A farmer, his wife, and several other people, including anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy, are facing jail over alleged interference with a receiver appointed over lands in Co Kildare.

The wife of embattled Fine Gael TD, John Perry, is to be replaced as his assistant following an uproar when it emerged he had appointed her to the taxpayer-funded role.