The arrival of a US-based IT/digital-based international marketing company to high-spec offices within a 200-year old Cork city centre Georgian building — and one which had had lain idle for over a decade — speaks volumes for the street’s renewal, and changing tecchie tenant profile.

LIMERICK-based legal firm, Holmes O’Malley Sexton has been awarded the tender to work with Standard Life Assurance on completing the legal transactions on residential and commercial property purchased through the company’s pension products.

Financial services company Britannic unveiled a £1.8bn (€2.7bn) merger today in a move set to create a leading manager of closed life insurance funds.

STANDARD Life Assurance chief executive Sandy Crombie is facing protests from policyholders at the Scottish insurer’s annual meeting over his pay package and plans to sell the company after its value has slumped.