KBC Group

Regulator getting increasingly annoyed as customer stress levels rise

Customers were previously told they would have 90 days to switch provider

Banking customers may be affected by consolidation, competition regulator warns

Regulator summons bank chiefs to meeting over KBC and Ulster Bank account transfers

Executive is expected to join another European financial institution

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

Majority of Irish consumers now fear economy will be weaker in 12 months’ time

Despite soaring costs, demand for refurb or retrofit remains high – but money is available

The State’s decade-old personal insolvency regime is slowly becoming a less adversarial arena for creditors and debtors

Customers not obliged to take any action until they receive letter or email, bank says

Central Bank concerned banks ‘not where they need to be’ in handling numbers looking to transfer accounts

More than one million current and deposit accounts must find new homes

Company commences recruitment with headcount set to reach 600 by year end

Fintech’s 1.7m Irish customers can avail of additional services such as personal loans

Successor to Aleš Blažek has been identified and will be announced shortly, group said

Bank says it is responding ‘robustly and fully’ to competition questions

Dramatic rise in switching and remortgaging, but movers become a rarer breed

Drop in confidence contained by long-term trend for ‘defensive’ thinking, says KBC Bank

Iseq drops 1.6% on Monday as banks and travel stocks drag it down

Central Bank says it will be putting pressure on institutions to up their game

‘One of the reasons we have been seeing a lot of M&A is the psychology of a typical entrepreneur’

New research highlights issues for micro-SMEs

Lender strongly refutes accusation, claims it has offered staff generous redundancy terms

Bank books a raft of costs tied to its planned departure from the Irish market

Lender is also in process of selling remaining €9.2bn of Irish loans to Bank of Ireland

Seen & Heard: Ardmore establishes new €400m fund to build affordable housing

Digital bank denies rumours move is linked to frustration over regulator’s approach

Latest KBC Bank Ireland index points to rising optimism among consumers

Organisation’s new chairman to outline plans for over 10,000 new homes

Appointment ends nine-month search for John Moran replacement

Stock investors bet retreat of Ulster Bank and KBC will give surviving banks a fighting chance

Covid, Brexit, rising energy costs and supply chain issues combined to put the squeeze on

Seen & Heard: Broadband fee payments, Akusus jobs; DAA’s raffle upset

Chapters and Rowan Tree cafe will be missed, while the Cobblestone won a reprieve

Transformational deal would increase PTSB’s loan book by almost 50%

Fintech services offer financial stability to those who don’t receive regular pay cheques

Rival Dilosk sees consildated loans more than double to €566m, new figures show

Almost 300 Ulster Bank staff have left the exiting lender this year

Latest Central Bank data shows Irish lenders are among the costliest for home loans

Both Avant Money and Finance Ireland reducing rates