Permanent TSB is set to cover the costs for affected customers looking to get accurate personal credit rating reports after admitting that it had, in some cases, supplied wrong information to the Irish Credit Bureau (ICB).

Customers at Ulster Bank have received at least a €25 compensation payment as a result of the bank’s technical failure.

Ulster Bank customers hit by the month-long IT meltdown which crippled the bank are to be offered a one-off compensation payment and free banking for three months.

Fianna Fáil finance spokesperson Michael McGrath has called on the Irish Credit Bureau to examine all of the information it receives from banks to make sure it is accurate.

AIB has apologised for an error in its reporting of missed loan repayments to the Irish Credit Bureau (ICB).

Up to 12,000 AIB customers may have been given a poor credit rating because the bank over-reported the level of missed payments.

AIB has apologised for an error in it's reporting of missed loan repayments to the Irish Credit Bureau.

Niamh Hennessy looks at the bank meltdown, bailouts, rescue plans and protests of the year gone by

THE Financial Regulator’s office has called for new blood to be introduced to help run the banking sector and for more non-executive directors to join bank boards and to be paid higher salaries.

THE Irish Credit Bureau, owned by the country’s main banks, saw pre-tax profits fall to €3.2 million from €6.1m in the previous year.

BANK of Ireland must dispose of key assets by the end of 2014, share its facilities such as ATMs with smaller competitors and make it easier for its customers to change banks.

The European Commission has today approved the €3.5bn state recapitalisation of Bank of Ireland in 2009.

BANK of Ireland plans to sell off such assets as ICS Building Society and New Ireland Assurance in a move the Unite union said will put 1,000 jobs in jeopardy.

Around 1,000 jobs were threatened today as Bank of Ireland revealed it will sell off a number of its subsidiaries.

BORROWERS have been urged to check their personal credit reports as “genuine mistakes” could prevent them being approved for a loan.

CREDIT card company MBNA has come under fire from customers over claims the firm is “harassing” people who have fallen behind in their debt repayments.

Representatives of a wide range of lending institutions, business organisations and regulatory bodies will appear at tomorrow’s meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Banking officials have been called before a group of politicians to explain their position on lending money to businesses during the economic downturn.

Criminals are using the economic crisis to prey on desperate jobseekers in an identity fraud scam, it was revealed today.

Banks, insurance firms, credit unions and a stockbroker have been forced to compensate scores of poorly advised clients in the last six months, it was revealed today.

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