The Government is to face strong opposition to plans to get Revenue to collect the TV licence. The high evasion rate is costing RTÉ €40m a year.

Finding the causes of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which took the lives of 71 people in London last year, will be long and painful. The public inquiry established by the British government starts work next week amid continuing disquiet among survivors and families of the dead about the background, experience and mindset of the judge chosen to chair what will undoubtedly be an extraordinarily lengthy inquest.

European stock markets continued to shed value as investors locked in profits at the end of a strong month, with all eyes now fixed on potentially overvalued US markets after jitters in recent days.

Scotland Yard is investigating claims security workers in England were paid by convicts to deliberately fit electronic ankle tags loosely.

The three-year-old software startup aims to sign up 20 fund managers by the end of 2017, writes Trish Dromey.

At a time when high quality bond yields are collapsing to zero, the value and importance of dividends from equities has never been more important.

Britain’s top share index climbed to its highest level in nearly a year yesterday, led higher by miners, and with ITV soaring after a well-received trading update.

The National Asset Management Agency has started a “root-and-branch review” of its operations as part of a planned restructuring.

Finance firm Capita Asset Services Ireland has emerged as the big winner in Nama’s payout for professional services in the first six months of this year.

The State’s spending watchdog questions whether Ireland’s €38m postcode system will be value for money, and raises concerns with a number of aspects of its introduction.

Professional services giant Capita Asset Services is planning to increase its Irish-based workforce by 200 people inside the next two years on the back of a growing project portfolio and general growth in the economy.

The State’s new postcode will not deliver the value for money when it is launched next month, a senator and professor of economics at Trinity College has warned.

Plans to introduce a postcode system this year have created more questions than

The British government is investigating complaints that outsourcing firm Capita overcharged and made late payments to partners in a £250m (€335m) government contract to provide training services.

Financial services group, IFG has said it has no immediate plans to de-list its shares from the Irish Stock Exchange, nor move from its Dublin headquarters, despite shifting its entire operating focus towards Britain.

A Dublin-based start-up has signed a major contract with Capita Asset Services — part of one of the world’s leading professional services firms Capita Plc.

A Cork-based business services company has been bought by global outsourcing firm, Capita in a deal worth €35m.

One of the main beneficiaries in the recovery of the Irish property market looks set to be the real estate investment trusts (REIT), who are poised to pick up Nama’s best assets.

The UK business recently put in charge of managing IBRC commercial property loans bound for Nama has agreed to buy an Irish-based specialist software firm for nearly €130m.

Farmer groups have raised concerns about the closure of ACC’s retail bank with the loss of 180 jobs.

Nama has awarded Capita Asset Services an €80m contract to service more than €40bn of loans held by the bank.

Forty employees of the former Anglo Irish Bank, IBRC in special liquidation, have been made redundant at the bank’s London and Belfast offices.

Capita, one of the UK’s leading professional services companies, is to double its workforce in the Republic from 800 to 1,600 over the next three years.

Global stock markets struggled to make headway after weaker-than-expected growth from the world’s biggest economy weighed on mining and commodity stocks.

Nama has put up for tender the servicing of two loan portfolios it will obtain through the acquisition of the IBRC loanbook later this year.

London’s top flight index ended the month on a positive note today after shrugging off worse-than-expected US growth figures and big losses at taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland.

A legal dispute between AIB and several former senior executives whom the bank accused of secretly scheming to take over its international financial services business has been settled, the Commercial Court has heard.

A legal dispute between AIB and several former senior executives whom the bank has accused of secretly scheming to take over its international financial services business has been settled, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

Stock markets remained under pressure on both sides of the Atlantic today amid fears over the health of the global economy.

Transport giant FirstGroup lost more than a fifth of its stock market value today after an embarrassing British government u-turn dealt a blow to its hopes of running the West Coast franchise.

Lloyds was the biggest faller on London’s leading shares index today after it suffered a £3.5bn (€4.12bn) loss and warned of further problems ahead.

Bullish results from housebuilder Galliford Try and recruitment firm Hays helped the FTSE 250 Index outshine its top-tier partner today.

London’s leading shares index struggled to make progress today after weaker-than-expected retail sales in the US overshadowed an upbeat bond auction in debt-laden Italy.

A year to forget for investors ended today with London’s benchmark index 5.5% lower than its starting point in January.

The FTSE 100 Index suffered its fifth losing session in a row today as high borrowing costs for Italy and Spain fuelled fears of a eurozone meltdown.

The High Court has granted AIB certain, but not all, orders it sought against its former executives and a rival company the bank claims conspired to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB's International Financial Services (IFS) business.

THE High Court will rule next week on an application by AIB for an injunction against a number of former executives and a rival company the bank claims conspired to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB’s International Financial Services (IFS) business.

The High Court will rule next week on an application by AIB for an injunction against a number of former executives and a rival rival company the bank claims conspired to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB's International Financial Services (IFS) business.

A BUSINESS would be dealt a major blow at a “critical” early stage if AIB was granted a “sweeping injunction” stopping several former senior executives from canvassing any clients.

SEVERAL former executives with an AIB subsidiary acted in acted in “a deliberate, clandestine and unlawful manner” by planning to take over its international financial services business, the High Court heard.

Several former senior executives with an AIB subsidiary acted in "a deliberate, clandestine and unlawful manner" by secretly scheming to take over its international financial services business, the High Court has heard.