Jeremy Masding, one if the longest-serving senior bankers, plans to step down as chief executive of Permanent TSB next year.

Permanent TSB bank has announced rate cuts of up to 0.5% on fixed rates for existing customers.

The boss of Permanent TSB said the mortgage lender is weighing a decision on home loans and will make a judgement in the near future.

The costs of a record €21m fine the Central Bank imposed on Permanent TSB for its part in the industry-wide tracker mortgage probe should not be passed onto customers in higher loan costs and fees, the financial adviser who did the most to uncover the scandal has urged.

Permanent TSB has been fined €21m by the Central Bank of Ireland for regulatory breaches affecting tracker mortgage customers

Permanent TSB (PTSB) chief executive Jeremy Masding has hinted that the bank may look at further sales of non-performing loans.

Philip O’Leary, managing partner of Cork law firm FitzGerald Legal & Advisory, has been appointed as a board member to the Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB), funded by Ireland’s five main retail banks with the aim of rebuilding trust in the sector.

Permanent TSB (PTSB) has not ruled out further non-performing loan sales, while it deserves to be fined over the tracker mortgage scandal, its chief executive has said.

Permanent TSB said it aims to keep its increased share of the new mortgage lending this year, as it affirmed it will extend offering cash back incentives with its home loans through 2019.

Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB were among the heavy losers in Europe as selling resumed across the world following a shortlived post-Santa rally.

No matter how often you read the phrase “the bank will pay no taxes on its profits” it turns the knife anew.

Permanent TSB has announced the sale of more than 6,000 non-performing mortgages to Glenbeigh Securities.

Permanent TSB’s current level of non-performing loans is “really, really dangerous for Ireland” and could cost the taxpayer significantly if there is a shock to the economy, the bank’s chief has warned.

A body to be set up in the wake of the €1bn tracker mortgage scandal and a decade after the financial crash has asked for the public’s submissions on the culture of banks.

The Government’s decision over its 75% stake in Permanent TSB (PTSB), and its future as an independent mortgage bank will “not go away” even as the lender sells down its non-performing loans and seeks to return to full financial health, a leading analyst has said.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is being urged to clarify whether or not he has met with Permanent TSB over its sale of performing and non-performing loans.

Pascal Donohoe needs to declare his position on the sale of performing and non-performing loans by Permanent TSB.

The sale of over 10,000 PTSB non-performing loans to a vulture fund will go ahead as planned.

The Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has been accused of having a casual attitude to the sale of thousands of Permanent TSB mortgages to a vulture fund.

Permanent TSB is being criticised for selling off non-performing mortgages worth €1.3bn to a vulture fund.

US private equity firm Lone Star has won the race to acquire Permanent TSB’s €2.2bn ‘Project Glas’ portfolio of non-performing home loans.

Permanent TSB has been slammed for “an abject failure to deal with loans” and “taking the easy way out” after selling its Project Glas portfolio of 10,700 homes.

Permanent TSB has confirmed the sale of almost 11,000 non-performing mortgages to a vulture fund.

The Department of Finance is to pay a consultancy firm €144,000 to advise on whether a €500,000 pay cap for the executives of bailed-out banks should be lifted.

Permanent TSB chiefs have denied “closing ranks” and refusing to admit “operational mismanagement” over its part in the €1bn industry-wide tracker mortgage scandal.

Permanent TSB is to withdraw more than 4,000 split mortgages from its proposed sale of non-performing loans.

Permanent TSB has become the third bank to reduce mortgage rates in the last three weeks.

The chief executive of Permanent TSB has said that he has every confidence in the future of the Government-owned mortgage lender, as it pledged to go ahead with its sale plan for €3.7bn of troubled loans. That plan has aroused deep criticism.

The Campaign for Public Housing began what they call an "occupation of disruption" at Permanent TSB's Grafton Street branch at lunchtime today.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has defended Permanent TSB’s decision to potentially sell off 18,000 mortgages to vulture funds, saying it will protect jobs and the economy.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is to discuss demands from Fianna Fáil that vulture funds be regulated after concerns about Permanent TSB selling off 20,000 mortgage loans.

Fianna Fail have called on the government to enact as a "priority" proposed legislation to regulate vulture funds amid concerns over the sale of 20,000 PTSB mortgage loans, writes Juno McEnroe Political Correspondent

‘Not acceptable’ to wash hands as 20,000 TSB mortgages sold

Latest: The Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty has said that legal people still have protection even if their mortgages are sold to a so-called 'vulture fund'.

An opposition TD has called on bank customers to “vote with their feet” after being hit with unexpected 50% hikes on charges linked to some accounts.

Shares in Permanent TSB plunged by as much as 16% yesterday as the bank reported a 55% annualised drop in first half net profit.

Permanent TSB has pledged a renewed focus on tackling its huge level of non-performing loans, as the mortgage lender delayed paying a dividend until 2019.

It has emerged that the number of mortgage holders who were wrongly taken off tracker mortgages could be almost twice as high as first suggested.

Former Permanent TSB chief executive David Guinane has claimed before the High Court he is entitled to a severance payment of over €866,000 following his departure from the bank in 2012.

Shares in Permanent TSB rose more than 3% on hopes that the mortgage lender has turned a new chapter by focusing on growing new mortgage lending here after selling off a major UK loan book.

The EU's highest court has thrown out a legal challenge against an Irish bank bailout.

Trade union Unite today said that it will be seeking "meaningful engagement" with permanent tsb (PTSB) management following the rejection by members of a Labour Court recommendation issued in September.

Shares in Permanent TSB, which have shed more than half their value this year, rose to their highest level since before the UK referendum, as pressure appeared to ease for it to quickly dispose of a large UK loan book worth £2.3bn (€2.74bn).