Google ridiculed as “peculiar and problematic” demands by EU antitrust regulators to change the way that it displays search results.

A major probe by a law firm found no evidence that Ulster Bank put viable companies out of business in order to seize their assets.

A Royal Bank of Scotland executive has denied the bank profits from small business customers in financial distress.

Ulster Bank is confident that an extension of a probe into alleged fraudulent activity by its parent, RBS — to cover its Irish operations — will find it innocent of any wrongdoing.

Small businesses from Bath to Bradford are having their lifeblood sucked out by “vampire” banking practices, the author of a report alleging unscrupulous behaviour by Royal Bank of Scotland has told British MPs.

Royal Bank of Scotland’s boss said he did not believe it had conducted a “systematic” effort to profit from its troubled business customers.

Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed law firm Clifford Chance to conduct an inquiry into the treatment received by small business customers in financial distress, responding to suggestions it closed down viable businesses too quickly.

WILLIAM Fry Solicitors has emerged as this year’s top Irish legal firm for merger and acquisitions.

Leading shareholders in ITV will examine the pay deal awarded to former Carlton boss Michael Green after being told yesterday that he was legally entitled to his controversial £15m (€22.10m) payoff.