THE chairman of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know when he told an Oireachtas hearing that some bank executives had behaved in a totally “unacceptable” way.

Ireland's largest group of financial brokers, The Professional Insurance Brokers Association (PIBA), has added its voice to calls for the entire board of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority to be sacked.

The Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) is calling on the Government to sack the entire board of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority.

MENTALLY-ILL patients will not have counselling or other non-doctor services paid for by their Voluntary Health Insurance, Health Minister Mary Harney admitted yesterday.

THE announcement that gardaí will have to disclose information under the Freedom of Information Act (FoI), once major reforms of the force are bedded down, represents a feather in the cap of Information Commissioner Emily O’Reilly.

MONEY belonging to patients in long-term care will be placed in approved investments or stocks under a new scheme approved by the Department of Health.

Minister for Health Mary Harney today defended rushing emergency legislation through the Oireachtas to close a legal loophole allowing new entrants to the health insurance market to avoid expensive risk equalisation payments.

The Irish Bank Officials' Association has criticised the Government for failing to appoint a representative of banking staff to the Financial Services Regulatory Authority.

Allied Irish Bank has admitted overcharging customers by around €14m over a number of years.

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority last night instructed mortgage firms to tighten up checks on customers’ financial circumstances.

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority is planning to investigate how Irish banks have managed recent interest rate cuts announced by the European Central Bank.

IT is not only intolerable of Ireland’s major banks to prevaricate on passing on last week’s interest rate reduction

PRESSURE mounted on the country’s two largest banks to cut mortgage interest rates last night after a warning by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that they were morally obliged to act to ease the burden on hard-pressed customers.

A NEW State watchdog is to crack down on banks and insurance firms who rip off their customers by selling them the wrong financial products.

The Irish insurance industry is calling on the Government to come good on the initiatives it announced last year before the general election.