FINANCIAL institutions who are repeatedly the subject of complaints by consumers may be named and shamed, the new financial services ombudsman has threatened.

FINANCIAL services regulator IFSRA is planning a shake-up of how it judges the competency of individuals who apply to become company directors.

The financial services regulator (IFSRA) has denied newspaper reports this morning that consumers are being charged outrageous fees for using new shop-based ATMs.

BUSINESS groups and Opposition parties last night said banking price controls must not be abolished.

THOSE guilty of the cover-up in the AIB foreign exchange banking scandal may never be named despite two lengthy investigations by financial regulator IFSRA.

Consumers can save several hundred euro by shopping around for the right personal loan, it was revealed today.

SOME insurance companies are ripping off home owners, charging twice as much as rivals for insurance, a new survey reveals.

Shopping around could halve the price of home insurance, according to a new survey.

The Consumers Association of Ireland has said any remaining public faith in the banking sector was now gone after Allied Irish Bank admitted years of overcharging.

Financial Services Regulator Liam O’Reilly said investigations were ongoing into certain tax and deal allocation issues which arose in the late 1980s to mid 1990s.

AN Oireachtas committee may seek to compel AIB to appear before it to answer questions about the €20m foreign-exchange overcharging scandal.

LOSING a company’s good name is a bigger threat than losing money for Irish financial services managers, according to a new survey.

INVESTORS with billions of euro in shares held in trust by stockbrokers should get their hands on their share certificates to avoid their assets being seized in a default situation, the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority's prudential director advised last night.

PRESSURE is mounting on banks to drop interest rates after Tánaiste Mary Harney said she would be “angry and disappointed” if they failed to pass on the full 0.5% cut announced by the European Central Bank to customers.

Any tightening of our tax legislation to deter evasion and fraud is to be welcomed, but targeting credit unions to the same degree as commercial banks is something that needs serious pause for thought on the part of Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy.

THE financial services industry will have to finance the regulation of the profession by 2004, according to incoming Interim Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (IFRSA) chief executive Dr Liam O’Reilly.