Accounting giant KPMG has been fined and reprimanded by UK regulators over a defective audit of Britain’s Co-op Bank and its audits of lenders will face additional checks for three years.

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Retail chain Mothercare has appointed KPMG to advise on a refinancing of the firm as it holds crunch talks with lenders, it has emerged.

KPMG has been cleared by the British accounting watchdog over its auditing of HBOS in the run-up to the lender’s near collapse in the 2008 financial crisis.

Rolls-Royce’s bribery and corruption scandal has drawn in its departing auditor, KPMG, which has become the target of a probe by the UK accounting regulator.

Auditing firm KPMG was paid fees and expenses of over €770,000 concerning the administration of the five-star Lough Erne resort, new documents show.

Financial and professional services firm KPMG is to create 200 jobs across the country.

The Central Bank has appointed a number of major accountancy firms to help assist it with its increased regulation of the credit union sector.

Northern Ireland's only 5-star resort has been sold.

Seventeen Clerys concessionaires have banded together in a bid to retrieve an estimated €2.5m in lost revenue, arising from the sudden closure of the iconic Dublin department store earlier this month.

Liquidators at Clerys in Dublin have told laid-off workers there are no funds to pay redundancies - with the full cost to be claimed from the State.

Independent TD Catherine Murphy says she plans to increase pressure on KPMG Ireland to step away from the inquiry into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation by submitting a complaint to the firm’s global bosses.

Partners at accountancy firm, KPMG are charging the State €295 per hour for their work on the liquidation of the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Ten protesters staged a sit-in yesterday in the offices of KPMG Liquidators amid claims that they had been "abandoned" by the Government.