ALLIED Irish Bank is anticipating a record year of seed funding investment in 2012 and expects to support the creation of at least 20 new high-performing, innovative businesses in the coming year.

ANGLO Irish Bank’s claim for €19.4 million summary judgment orders against businessman Johnny Moran has been adjourned to next month to allow consideration of claims by Mr Moran concerning the authenticity of certain bank documents.

Speculation has mounted that the State may have to take a stake in Irish Life and Permanent (IL&P), the last privately-owned Irish bank, after this week's stress tests.

SERIOUS concerns are emerging about the potential squandering of billions of euro of Irish citizens money and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, as a result of the sale of Quinn Insurance.

Senior Fianna Fáil minister Eamon O'Cuiv has said that anyone in the Cabinet who does not believe or trust in Brian Cowen should resign.

Irish Bank shares have jumped following the agreement of the €85bn bailout between the Government, the EU and the IMF.

A TOTAL of €8 billion is to be pumped into Irish banks to boost their capital reserves resulting in the state becoming the largest shareholders in the country’s major financial institutions.

ANGLO IRISH BANK is seeking summary judgment orders for more than €17 million against a Dublin businessman over unpaid loans.

ALLIED IRISH BANK will not be fully nationalised and will “honour its debt obligations”, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said.

THE sale of the EBS is being viewed as an ongoing process as no real progress has been made this week despite reports that veteran American investor Wilbur Ross is to take control of the lender.

ALLIED Irish Bank has insisted it fired a self-declared whistle-blower for accessing the private bank accounts of his colleagues without authorisation.

ALLIED Irish Bank has secured orders from the Commercial Court appointing a receiver over a large number of properties owned by companies in the insolvent Zoe Developments group as part of its effort to recover loans of more than €550 million made to the companies.

ALLIED IRISH BANK gave its restructuring plan to the European Commission as part of the agreed state bail-out.

ALLIED Irish Bank has scaled down plans to close off lending through intermediary brokers that channelled hundreds of millions of euro to small businesses throughout Ireland.

ALLIED Irish Bank’s major holdings in a US and Polish bank are worth a staggering €1.3 billion more than the current €485 million value of AIB on the Irish Stock Exchange.

THE fallout from the Anglo Irish Bank loan controversy continued yesterday with the resignation of David Drumm as chief executive.

ALLIED Irish Bank’s (AIB) attitude towards former property developer Tom Gilmartin in the early 1990s “appeared most irregular”, a British commercial property consultant told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

IRISH bank customers can expect an intense battle for their current account business during 2006, Permanent TSB chief executive Denis Casey said yesterday at the opening of the bank’s 102nd branch on Galway’s Tuam Road.

ANGLO IRISH BANK opened a new premises in Birmingham this week.

The economy cannot sustain the level of wage increases workers have seen in recent years, Finance Minister Brian Cowen warned today.

ALLIED IRISH BANK will pay €35 million to customers after an investigation yesterday confirmed massive overcharging.

The ISEQ index shed 20.03 points this morning to 5205.52

Troubled mortgage bank Abbey National today angered potential suitor Bank of Ireland by rejecting a takeover approach.