Private equity firms are reportedly circling TSB Bank as owner Lloyds Banking Group primes it for a stock market flotation next year.

A return to dividends at Lloyds Banking Group could be on the cards after its chief executive said the state-backed bank’s improving health increases the possibility of payouts.

Irish Life assurance was born in 1939, when the economy turned and put a hole in the balance sheet of Irish assurance companies.

A community is rallying around the family of a little Kerry girl due for a life-saving organ transplant next month.

Bank of Ireland has announced the appointment of Archie Kane as Governor Designate with immediate effect.

Permanent tsb bank has entered into an agreement to acquire the deposit business of Northern Rock Ireland, which currently has more than €650m of deposits from some 17,000 customers.

FRESH divisions have emerged within the coalition Government after the Green Party said it will not support any plans to sell off commercial state firms and it repeated calls to radically reform the political donations system.

The Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association has warned the banks to immediately pass on the full benefit of the 0.25% reduction announced today by the European Central Bank to their SME customers.

National Irish Bank and permanent tsb today confirm that they intends to pass on the full 0.5% interest rate cut announced yesterday by the ECB to its standard variable rate and tracker mortgage customers.

A CRIMINAL ASSETS BUREAU (CAB) officer told the High Court yesterday that a €100,000 settlement made with a man who is suing a newspaper for libel over an article calling him a drug king arose as authorities believed he was involved in drug trafficking and benefit fraud.

TWO of Cork’s leading PR and marketing firms have merged to form a group with a turnover of €5 million.

Irish Life & Permanent plc have announced the appointment of Denis Casey as group chief executive designate of the group.

Up to 35,000 people across Ireland have registered for the 3V card in the first six months of its operation, according to market research.

MARKETING companies, H+A Visual Communications and Connection Marketing Communications have merged to create the H+A Marketing Group.

A new mortgage which allows customers to make no repayments during the first four months of the loan has been launched by permanent tsb bank.

THE increase in house prices continues to moderate growing at a third of the rate they were 12 months ago, according to the latest Permanent TSB house price index.

Gardaí are investigating after a 24-year-old man was found dead in his cell in a Dublin prison, it was confirmed today.

ANALYSTS are expecting an upbeat trading statement from Irish Life and Permanent, which could boost the share price, tomorrow.

ROY DOUGLAS will step down as chairman of Irish & Life Permanent early month.

The chairman of Irish Life and Permanent, Mr Roy Douglas, announced his retirement at today’s Annual General Meeting.

The car financing division of permanent tsb bank will launch Ireland's first Internet-based car auction for the general public this Friday, April 30.

Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) has reported pre-tax profits of €261.8m for last year, nearly €30m lower than in 2002.

A 'hardened career criminal' has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in robbing €60,000 from the TSB with inside help from a cashier.

HOUSE prices continued to increase in July but at a much slower level, the latest edition of the permanent tsb House Price Index shows.

A man in his thirties has been arrested by gardai in Kildare in connection with an armed robbery in Waterford yesterday.

The Irish Life and Permanent acquisition of TSB Bank has been formally completed, in a deal worth £339m.

Irish Life & Permanent says its life business played a key role in raising group product earnings during 2000 by 17% to €266m.