Pepper Money, a unit of an Australian loans giant which has Irish bases in Shannon and Dublin, has said it will provide corporate loans for the first time in Ireland after it identified a huge demand for companies and professionals to refinance existing loans or buy new properties.

The three-year-old software startup aims to sign up 20 fund managers by the end of 2017, writes Trish Dromey.

Some 150 jobs are to be created with the expansion of two companies in Dublin and Shannon.

It’s official: Damien Duff has become a Shamrock Rovers player — but he’s not ready to don the famous Hooped shirt just yet.

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has selected Pepper Asset Servicing as its preferred bidder to provide services on the portfolio of personal loans, principally residential mortgage loans, which it may acquire from the liquidators appointed to IBRC.