Credit facility carries guarantee from the French state of up to 90% of the total amount borrowed

Economic upheaval could hardly have come at a worse time for banks

US financial stocks had worst day since 2009 on Monday

Sterling erases all gains since election exit poll and UK-focused stocks fall

Economic data counters market optimism following Conservative election victory

Markets report: Iseq slips 0.74% led lower by banks

Iseq underperforms peers and Paddy Power Betfair down 1% as name change agreed

Investor confidence in a rally that has sent European stocks shooting up this year shows signs of fraying

Datalex lower after revealing restructuring plan while Bank of Ireland closes higher

Result of UK cabinet meeting to bring next big currency moment

Partnership extended to supporting French institution Banque Palatine

Market report: Earnings announcements lift European shares at the end of volatile week

Against the euro, sterling weakened 0.3 per cent to 89.26 pence in early trading

Market report: Trading light as US and UK holiday but PTSB and INM show activity

Shares in Game Account Network rise steeply in Dublin and London

French hotel group to sell 55% AccorInvest property business to group of investors for €4.4bn

Ryanair climbs 1.83% to €16.16 on what traders said was good day for the sector

Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks through 25,000-point level for first time

Record turnout expected for vote which could see pro-independence parties stripped of absolute control of region’s parliament

Pioneer investments merged with Amundi earlier this year

Kerry Group, CRH, Ryanair and Paddy Power Betfair see small gains in Dublin

Complaint submitted by MEP states there appears to be a clear link to cartel activity

Concern around Catalonia’s bid for independence and Austria’s election outcome

Ireland’s Iseq out of sorts, with market heavyweight Kerry Group falling by 2.1%

Dublin market follows suit in day of little corporate news

Brexit-related collapse in sterling is heaping further pain on exporters here

Providence and Paddy Power take a hit in Dublin but Pandora woes grab the headlines

Financials lead charge as global markets post substantial gains on back of election result

Signs the UK economy is slowing as Britain enters negotiating period

Oxfam report claims 16 of Europe’s top 20 banks booked profits here in 2015

Top flight index winning streak ends as the pound surges to a three-week high

Shares in oil company drop as new stock being offered at more than 45% discount

Former Barclays boss’s Atlas Merchant looking to build ‘boutique investment bank’

German bank has failed to find buyer for Postbank and may now try to reintegrate it

Gambling firms in Ireland and UK under pressure after HSBC cuts ratings

Airline cashes in on low interest rates by borrowing €750m in its third bond issue

Paper and packaging group’s new bonds priced to carry interest rate of almost 2.37%

JP Morgan and Barclays among banks fined while RBS received full immunity

Deal will make Amundi the eighth largest asset manager in the world

Crédit Agricole, JPMorgan Chase and HSBC ‘distorted’ interest rate derivatives, says EU