Iliad

Bank shares and Ryanair drive Iseq lower while FTSE 100 rebounds after shaky start

Investors taking European telecoms companies private as share prices drift lower

Dispute between telecoms rivals flares up as postponed European football reaches climax

Agreement will mean companies invest jointly in new network infrastructure

Poor day on Dublin exchange for building and housing stocks, while FBD insurance group falls

Facebook was blindsided this month when seven high-profile partner companies, including eBay, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard, stepped back from its Libra project

Moody’s estimates that sale will save Eir about €6m a year in interest costs

Markets report: Stocks gained ground after reports the ECB is leaning towards a stimulus package that includes a rate cut

Europe’s biggest telecom carrier slashed its full-year dividend by 40% to 9 cent per share

Businessman’s company Iliad burned through €1.44bn in cash in 2018

Fine relates to Iliad’s attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA in July 2014

Telecom firm hit with more debt to help make €400m payment to US hedge funds

Dividend replaces loan note the funds received for some of their shares last year

Latest moves will leave Eir with high debt level of 4.1 times its earnings

Markets Beat: Price-cutting French phone company now being beaten at its own game

Iseq underperforms peers and falls 0.21%

John Dowling ‘loved what he taught and the people he taught it to’

Xavier Niel is sponsoring budding entrepreneurs such as former car thief Tally Fofana

Paddy Power Betfair shares jump almost 5 per cent

Ryanair trims losses to close 0.22% down, while AIB performs badly, tumbling 2.77%

UK retailer Sports Direct down 7.2%, mainly due to loss on its investment in Debenhams

Irish banks ride a wave of positivity that sweep along the European financial sector

Meanwhile it appears investors in the bonds issued by Rusal Capital in Ireland are trapped

Cost-cutting plan announced days after French takeover of phone group

Five more departures announced as French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel set to move in

Companies controlled by telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel set to complete takeover in €3.5bn deal

First female chief executive for telecoms provider

Too many questions in air as National Broadband Plan reduced to one-horse race

French billionaire Xavier Niel, who is poised to buy Eir, on his start-up campus, workplace diversity, Brexit, and digital taxation

Group is going through its seventh change of ownership in less than 20 years

Closer to home, IPL Plastics and Digicel could also make the move this year

Two of telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel’s companies prepare to take 64.5% stake in Eir

Orla Noonan – daughter of Michael – is likely to have provided insights as Iliad circled Eir

Telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel to take majority stake in the phone group

Xavier Niel to pay about €1bn in deal that will involve CEO Richard Moat stepping down

Telecoms group considers alternative to listing on stock market

Iseq in positive territory with Ryanair, Paddy Power Betfair and CRH among the gainers

Iseq falls 0.8% as Paddy Power Betfair confirms a slowdown in online gaming

Group’s full-year sales and earnings dip in year to March amid currency weakness

Man who would be ‘king’ watched his ambitions crumble before his eyes