Colin Hunt

Banking crisis delays AIB’s return to majority private hands – and decision on pay

Lowering of interest rate expectations will have bigger effect on market sentiment towards Irish banks, with their higher reliance on interest income

AIB plans capital relief as focus turns to investor payouts

Lender set to follow Bank of Ireland with credit risk transfer deals

AIB Life joint venture appoints Bryan O’Connor as chief executive

Joint venture with Canada Life Irish Holding Company also names chartered accountant and former senior banker Tom Foley as chairman

AIB investor payouts may exceed €1bn in coming years

ECB’s recent interest rate hikes have improved the earnings outlook for AIB and other Irish banks

AIB welcomes Government’s sale of further shares for €396.6m

Move has reduced State’s holding in AIB to about 57 per cent

Irish banks should enjoy their sweet spot while they can - it could be short-lived

Banks among the few winners in a rising rates environment, but a drawn-out period of inflation could cause pain

Rising ECB rates boost AIB’s interest income forecast to 15%

Lender sees new account opening surge 82% as customers move from Ulster Bank and KBC

AIB partners with NTR on solar to deliver up to 80% of bank’s electricity

Renewables group has planning permission for two solar farms in Wexford which it expects to build next year after power purchase agreement signed

AIB moves first among Irish banks to raise fixed home rates following ECB hikes

Mortgage lender says increases will apply across its AIB, EBS and Haven brands after close of business Friday

AIB sets up SME equity fund with Foresight to speed green transition

Bank provides cornerstone investment of €30 million in partnership with UK firm

Dreaded R-word hampers Donohoe’s hopes of AIB block sale

Joe Brennan: Plans to open third front selling AIB shares must surely be on hold for now

AIB raises interest forecast and launches share buyback

Bank to hire as many as 700 temporary staff to help migrate Ulster Bank, KBC customers

AIB to hire up to 700 temporary staff to help with Ulster and KBC customers

Bank expecting a surge in new business as foreign-owned lenders exit

AIB raises interest guidance and launches share buyback

New lending rises by 18% in the first quarter

AIB staff in line for 10% pay increase over three years

More than 6,000 staff to benefit from the agreement

Cliff Taylor: Rules of the new economy are being written in green

No one will invest in a country seen to be a climate laggard

Climate agenda brings real challenges for international tourism

There is a limit to how green discretionary travel can ever be

AIB has ‘blacklist’ for companies that won’t address climate change

Chief tells tourism conference it will ‘turn away’ firms that don’t try to reduce emissions

Colin Hunt: Green transition ‘is the biggest opportunity in the history of global banking’

AIB is emerging from the pandemic in a strong position given its earnings potential and rising interest rates

PTSB chief risk officer Mike Frawley quits for AIB

Frawley will join rival AIB later this year

AIB raises €1bn in bonds for projects with ‘clear social benefits’

Funds to lend to projects in healthcare, education, social and affordable housing areas

AIB in talks to buy back some State shares after €645m profit

Bank to return €213m to shareholders through dividends and stock repurchases

AIB picks internal candidate Hilary Gormley to lead UK unit

Move comes as division’s current postholder Robert Mulhall is to leave group

AIB UK’s chief to leave after unit restructuring

Robert Mulhall set to move into banking technology space after leaving AIB

Goodbody poised to become primary dealer in government bonds

New hires will see stockbroker taking advantage of rival Davy’s exit from the business

AIB nears deal to sell £1bn British SME book to Allica Bank

Bank’s exit from market segment will save it an estimated €35m in coming years

Finance union set for collision with banks with 6% pay hike demand

FSU wants ‘the proceeds of success to be shared’

Has AIB dropped clearest hint yet of its designs on Ulster’s tracker mortgages?

Market Beat: Bank makes all the right noises over excess cash

AIB stalls return of excess capital to shareholders until 2023

Bank plans to return to paying regular dividends early next year following two-year gap

Are Central Bank mortgage rules containing home prices or fuelling crisis?

Lack of supply and undeveloped rental market key factors in house price growth

Eamonn Crowley grabs chance to make PTSB a real banking force

Agenda: After existential threats, Permanent TSB is focused on growing its income base

Four bidders in race to buy AIB’s British SME loan book

Banks and debt funds among contenders in binding offers phase for €1.2bn portfolio

Picture on bad loans will not become clear for another 12 months

Cautious AIB starts releasing number of bad-loan provisions, freeing up €103m

AIB reports €291m profit and raises medium-term target

Lender says it has secured quarter of mortgage market that has jumped 26% this year

AIB adopts new sustainable lending measures

Bank plans to categorise loan book on basis of sustainability

PTSB now has a fighting chance of delivering returns that will allow a Government exit

Joe Brennan: Ulster Bank deal puts a fair wind behind embattled lender

AIB to close more than half of its 15 Northern Irish branches

Bank had previously reduced the then network of 30 in 2017

AIB boss would not have done Goodbody deal if bonuses had been off the table

Colin Hunt sees difference between Irish and EU mortgage rates narrowing over time

AIB chief ‘confident’ about profit rebound even as reopening slows

Colin Hunt says bank must remain ‘resilient and well-positioned’ to support economy

AIB agrees to buy Ulster Bank’s €4.2bn corporate loan book

About 280 employees who are directly involved in the loan book will transfer to AIB

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