A bank manager's High Court action challenging a purported redundancy she had claimed was being forced on her by the bank, has been resolved.

Borrowers shouldn’t hold their breath for Irish banks to cut mortgage rates by any great extent despite the ECB being widely-tipped to cut some official rates next month, a leading broker has said.

The outlook for the Irish economy is favourable in the short-term but Brexit is still "a big sword of Damocles" for growth, the new KBC Ireland chief executive has said.

KBC Bank Ireland said that its chief executive of the past six years, Wim Verbraeken is returning to take up a senior job at the group’s head office in Brussels.

KBC has become the first Irish bank to offer multi-banking.

Concerns over a hard Brexit and the world economy have seen Irish consumer confidence slip to its lowest point in almost four years.

A decision by KBC Ireland to sell a €1.9bn bundle of loans — the first ever by KBC here — does not mark a change in policy and is not a signal it plans to sell its non-performing homes loans book, its chief executive has said.

Irish business sentiment has weakened as increased uncertainty about the outlook for the global economy weighs on firms’ expectations for their own activity levels in coming quarters as well as their assessment of prospects for the Irish economy as a whole.

The boss of KBC Bank Ireland has said he “cannot rule in or rule out” potentially selling off of thousands of loans to vulture funds, even where customers are complying with the terms of their restructured payments.

2,117 mortgage accounts with KBC Bank Ireland have received redress and compensation since the tracker mortgage scandal.

Permanent TSB has become the third bank to reduce mortgage rates in the last three weeks.

The first signs of a thawing in consumers holding back on spending on big purchases is good political news for the Government and may explain Fine Gael’s improved poll ratings, according to KBC Bank chief economist Austin Hughes.

Nearly 2,500 tracker mortgage customers of KBC Ireland remain on the wrong rate since the €1bn scandal was uncovered, its chief executive has said.

Irish consumers think the economy is doing well, but are cautious about their own finances.

The final bill for the tracker mortgage scandal could top €1bn and affect up to 40,000 customers, according to an advocate who has fought the banks for the last eight years.

The chief executive of KBC Bank Ireland has said its mortgage loan book is in better shape than may at first appear, and that a sizeable pile of impaired loans won’t stop it from eyeing Irish acquisitions.

Consumer sentiment increased slightly over the last month, but it is not that people are actually feeling more prosperous.

There's some good news for staff and customers of KBC Bank.

The chief executive of KBC Ireland said that the road is probably narrowing for the prospects of further reductions in home loans.

A survey on consumer sentiment in Ireland shows that people are feeling increasingly uncertain about their futures.

KBC Bank Ireland will not be sanctioned by the Central Bank for erroneously printing an incorrect interest rate on customer statements.

KBC Bank Ireland is attracting new business with its low mortgage rates and will compete with any new mortgage entrants on price, its chief executive has vowed.

Consumer confidence reached a 15-year high, last month, but positivity surrounding the jobs market has taken a dent.

Business activity and personnel hiring are both expected to continue growing strongly this year on the back of a marked increase in economic confidence.

KBC Ireland remains confident of turning a profit by 2016 despite reporting a second-quarter loss of €34m after tax and impairment costs yesterday.

Almost half of Ulster Bank mortgage customers in long-term arrears are in the process of having their homes repossessed, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Almost three quarters of householders whose mortgages are more than 90 days in arrears have not had them restructured, the Department of Finance has confirmed.

KBC Ireland made a loss of €864m last year as it ramped up loan impairments over the fourth quarter.