Survey shows business confidence rose massively by 39% compared to a 33% fall in the fourth quarter of last year

Report puts spotlight on the way SMEs have fared since the ending of automatic payment breaks

Brokers have called on the Central Bank to investigate cashback mortgages that mislead first-time buyers

Last year, the Revenue Commissioners spent €11.8m on legal and accountancy service providers

Bank’s director of economics and statistics Mark Cassidy said current Government Covid support measures are sustainable

Requirement for banks to collect pages of documentation from distressed borrowers when they fall behind in repaying loans to remain

Central Bank joins the chorus of voices urging the minister to remove controversial scheme from its Affordable Housing Bill

Where was the shame? Where was the fear? Where were the women?On 2 March, the chief executive of Davy stockbrokers’ Brian McKiernan issued a memo to the company’s 700 staff. Some minutes earlier, the Central Bank had revealed that a record €4.

Fallout will not end with a sale

Any purchase of Davy by Bank of Ireland would involve the bank buying back the broker it owned before a management-led buyout of the firm during the property boom around 15 years ago.

All of the 16 Davy staff involved in the 2014 profiteering controversy following the closure of its bond desk have left the firm, TDs will be told tomorrow.

Oireachtas Finance Committee will hear the reprimand and fine imposed on Davy reflects the serious regulatory breaches and lack of candour when first reporting the matter to the Central Bank

Scandal blew up after the firm was fined €4.1m for its failure to supervise a group of 16 of its employees in their 2014 profiting from personal dealings in the sale of Anglo Irish bank bonds

Pharma and IT firms based here raise GDP but, domestically, the pain is unevenly distributed across economy 

Fine is largest handed out to an Irish stockbroker but no personal sanctions imposed

Hiscox Ireland has heeded a plea from the Restaurants Association of Ireland (RAI) to pay insurance to cover business losses brought about by the Covid crisis

The overall wealth of Irish households climbed to a record €831bn, or €166,930 per person, the Central Bank said, boosted by locked-down savers who couldn't spend, and helped by a stockmarket-rise to pensions and house prices that escaped a once ...

Savings accumulated during the pandemic should support a strong recovery in consumption in 2022

A comparison analysis showed the dearest insurer was charging €1,000 more than the cheapest on the market

Despite the challenges of Covid-19, businesses are also recording record savings with their deposits the highest on record at nearly €72bn

Today The Central Bank will publish its interim report on differential pricing within the insurance sector.

The Central Bank said the quarterly increase was in part driven by the €1.3bn growth in deposits by the companies in the information and communication sector.

New European guidelines extending payment breaks into 2021 will not apply here

The Central Bank has dealt mortgage lenders a slap on the wrist by warning them to improve their communication with customers over any changes to their loan application processes prompted by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

New report shows consumers  paid out 50% more for cover than in 2013

Economy is likely to adapt more quickly than was the case under the first lockdown

The Central Bank has stepped up its warnings for lenders to behave as many households struggle to pay mortgages and bills amid the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Central Bank has fined KBC Bank Ireland over €18. 3m for its part in the industry-wide tracker mortgage scandal after the lender's “deeply unsatisfactory” response only served to increase the financial harm inflicted on customers.

The NTMA has raised €700m for 10-years at a negative rate of -0.025%, marking the lowest cost in history for the State to tap a benchmark 10-year bond in international government debt markets.

Irish banks are “very unlikely” to relieve up to 140,000 mortgage and business customers on payment breaks of interest charges on their loans, despite controversy over the practice.

Ireland's economy will endure a harder downturn this year along with the rest of Europe than thought at the start of the Covid-19 crisis but will stage some sort of rebound in 2021, according to the latest EU forecasts.

There are still almost 413,000 people on the pandemic unemployment payment more than six weeks since the start of the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, suggesting the new Government faces a big headache if it wishes to wind down the scheme at an early stage.

British moneylender Amigo Loans has said the cost of dealing with its backlog of customer complaints will be “substantially higher” than the £35m (€39m) initially anticipated.

Unemployment will return to its pre-Covid-19 levels in late 2023 and only then if there is no new outbreak of the disease, while house building will be severely disrupted for a number of years, the Central Bank has predicted.

Unemployment will return to its pre-Covid-19 levels in late 2023 and only then if there is no new outbreak of the disease, while house building will be severely disrupted for a number of years, the Central Bank has predicted.

Over one million Covid-19 emergency loans have been advanced to UK companies that are 100%-guaranteed by the British government, starkly showing the wide gap in supports for firms in the Republic.

Shoppers are splurging to recreate restaurant experiences at home, with sales of luxury food items and alcohol increasing in recent weeks.

There has been an unexpected surge in the demand for house sales in the weeks since estate agents returned to work following lockdown.

It will be at least 6-12 months before consumer spending levels return to any semblance of normality, according to one economist, with Ireland facing into “a long and far from straight line of recovery”.

There is absolutely no proof that Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can replace the global financial system, argues Eddie Hobbs.

New Permanent TSB CEO Eamonn Crowley has pledged there is a future for the mortgage bank in lending to small firms but said the fallout from Covid-19 crisis will be “significant” as it again faces some sort of increase in home loan arrears when the payment breaks for 10,000 customers come to an end.

The former Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of RSA Ireland Insurance has been disqualified from working in a financial company for more than eight years and been fined €70,000 by the Central Bank of Ireland.

The Governor of the Central Bank has warned that the country is only at "the end of the beginning" of the economic shock caused by the Covid 19 pandemic and that the long term impact is yet to fully materialise.

Ireland is only at the end of the beginning of the current economic shock caused by Covid-19 and the future scale of its economic impact is uncertain, the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has said.

The threat of a rise in bad consumer loans in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis could lead to an increase in mortgage interest rates, according to one consumer commentator.

The Central Bank is to tighten regulations around licensed private moneylenders and has urged consumers to effectively use such firms as a last resort when seeking monetary support, despite the squeeze the Covid-19 fallout has put on household finances.

Derville Rowland, the director-general at the Central Bank, has issued a strong warning to bank chiefs to ensure they don’t revert to penalising customers when the Covid-19 payment breaks end on mortgages and other loans.

Figures from the Central Bank show that deposits from Irish resident households saw the largest increase in since they began recording the figures in 2003.

Consumers are warned to be on the alert to investment scams being carried out by false companies offering fake investment opportunities.

The long-term future of the economy remains somewhat uncertain according to the Central Bank.