The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said he "deeply regrets" that more than 300 people lost their homes because of the tracker mortgage controversy.

In recent days, up to 10,000 people took part in a protest over the housing outside Leinster House. In a country with 10,000 — and rising — homeless people and tens of thousands more living close to the life of an indentured servant because housing prices are utterly disconnected to incomes, that protest is inevitable. In a country where tens of thousands of workers are condemned to a lifetime of making landlords’ and vulture funds’ investments pay off, those protests can only grow.

Bank of Ireland owes almost €500,000 in compensation and refunds to a customer wrongly charged over the tracker mortgage scandal.

The Central Bank has expressed its growing exasperation with Irish banks, and has hinted at imposing individual fines and claw backing pay of top Irish bank chiefs if they fail to come into line following their handling of the €1bn tracker mortgage overcharging scandal.

A new enforcement body to target white collar crime could finally tackle the “apathy around the culture”, a legal expert has said, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Brokers should let customers know what commission they are being paid by financial firms if selling a product, the Central Bank has said.

Gardaí could be asked to launch an investigation into the tracker mortgage scandal after the country’s biggest banks were accused of “cartel behaviour” and of committing “grand theft” against at least 20,000 customers.

Bank of Ireland has stressed that it takes its regulatory obligations seriously despite being fined €3.15m by the Central Bank for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing compliance failures.

AIB has been fined €2.275m for antimoney laundering and terrorist financing compliance failures by the Central Bank after admitting six breaches of the Criminal Justice Act.

The Central Bank has met with gardaí in relation to the tracker mortgage scandal, it has confirmed.

The Central Bank has fined the Irish arm of international investor services company Computershare €322,500 for a number of breaches of legislation with regard to client assets.

Two investment firms have been fined a combined €154,000 by the Central Bank for regulatory breaches.

The Central Bank said it won’t say whether it will use special powers to investigate any of Ireland’s main banks that survived the crash only with the help of bailouts.

Ireland faces quite a challenge meeting new standards designed to prevent money laundering ahead of a major international review next year, the Central Bank’s head of enforcement has said.

The Central Bank has insisted that its investigations into Bloxham Stockbrokers are continuing after it said yesterday it had struck a conclusive settlement agreement with a former general partner of the stockbroking firm which collapsed in 2012.

The Central Bank has fined Western Union €1.75m after the payment services giant failed to comply with money laundering and terrorist financing laws.

Ulster Bank has been fined almost €3.5m after an IT failure prevented thousands of customers being able to use their accounts over a month.

An insurance company has been fined nearly half a million euro by regulators over consumer protection failures.

The Central Bank has fined UniCredit Bank Ireland €315,000 for breaching limits on exposure to Italian and Spanish bonds and contravening limits on exposure to a single client.

The Central Bank has fined AIB €490,000 for breaking rules on reporting liquidity requirements on four occasions over a six-year period.

A moneylending business has been fined €8,000 by regulators for offering unsolicited loans.

The Central Bank has decided against fining Quinn Insurance Limited, not because the firm is innocent but because it is entirely reliant on funding from the insurance compensation fund.

Drinks giant C&C has been hit with a €90,000 fine by the Central Bank for failure to maintain and update its so-called ‘insider’ list of advisers.