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There has been an announcement of 200 new jobs for Dublin.

200 new jobs are on the way at Fidelity Investments.

Alibaba Group Holding slipped in its second day of trading yesterday after jumping almost 40% in its debut as bankers boosted the size of the Chinese e-commerce company’s share offering to a global record of $25bn (€19.5bn).

One of the world’s most powerful businesswomen will discuss women leadership in business at an invite-only conference in UCC today.

One of America’s most powerful businesswomen is to receive an honorary doctorate at University College Cork.

Global regulators face a backlash from some of the world’s largest asset managers over plans that could single them out for tougher regulation.

Organisers of Career Zoo are expecting to set a new attendence record at this year's event.

Republicans are ready to offer the government a temporary debt limit extension, the leader of the US House of Representatives says.

Barack Obama is hosting senior Republicans today to seek an opening in an impasse that has shut down much of the government and threatens a catastrophic federal default.

Jobs minister Richard Bruton has established a joint industry/government ‘task force’ charged with developing the rapidly growing Big Data sector in Ireland.

Bank of Ireland chief executive Richie Boucher’s retention was a condition for a group of investors that bought a stake in the lender in 2011, according to Finance Minister Michael Noonan.

The Government has unveiled plans for a €1m research centre aimed at making Ireland a world leader in the rapidly growing area of data analytics.

Representatives of two of the five investment firms which bought into Bank of Ireland last summer have taken seats on its board.

Investors expect Spain to become the fourth euro member to need external funding as borrowing costs surge to levels too punitive for the nation to finance its needs on capital markets.

Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its stock market flotation last week, selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative report about the company before the shares started trading.

GREAT-West Lifeco, Canada’s second-largest insurer, is the leading candidate to acquire Irish Life & Permanent’s life assurance unit, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The State’s holding in Bank of Ireland has dropped to just more than 15% after €1bn investment by a Canadian investment firm.

Dublin: Reports over the weekend suggest that Bank of Ireland has entered exclusive talks with one of its new investors — US property firm Kennedy Wilson — to sell it its €1.5bn British loan book.

BANK of Ireland (BoI) shareholders have unanimously approved a €1.12 billion investment in the bank by a number of private investors, which reduces the state’s share holding to 15.1%.

JC FLOWERS & Co is among five bidders vying to buy Irish Life & Permanent’s life assurance unit, the biggest insurer of its kind in the country.

US BILLIONAIRE investor Wilbur Ross has said he will look at other Irish-based investment opportunities, after his company took a near-10% stake in Bank of Ireland.

BANK of Ireland said the state will reduce its shareholding to 15.1% after the lender’s rights offering this week, making it the only one of the country’s six largest lenders to escape Government control.

Bank of Ireland has released details of the private investors which came forward earlier in the week to buy a substantial stake in the bank.

FINANCIAL services firm Fidelity Investments will create 100 jobs in Galway and Dublin following an €11 million investment.

One hundred jobs are to be created at a world-leading financial services firm based in Dublin and Galway.

Mutual fund company Fidelity Investments are to create 49 full time jobs in Galway as the firm sets up a new research and development facility there.

A Cork company, which is the world leader in the development of enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions has invested a further €4.4m in Cork.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney has added to his portfolio of commercial partnerships by signing a deal with a financial planning company.

CORK software company Qumas took a major step towards a listing on New York’s NASDAQ yesterday as it announced a ground-breaking deal with one of the world’s biggest financial services heavyweights.

CARLTON Communications chairman Michael Green is set to receive a £1.4 million pay-off when the group merges with Granada despite not having a formal contract.

Carlton Communications chairman Michael Green is set to receive a £1.4m (€2m) pay-off when the group merges with Granada, despite not having a formal contract, it emerged today.

GRANADA boss Charles Allen could yet become a victim of last week’s shareholder coup which forced Carlton boss Michael Green to relinquish ambitions of running a single ITV, it was reported yesterday.

Carlton boss Michael Green’s hopes of surviving a shareholder coup over who runs an enlarged ITV company were dealt a potentially fatal blow today.

Britons are not panic selling their equity investments despite heavy falls in the stock market, research showed today.