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Galway woman in San Francisco: 'It has the highest rent in the world'
- Abroad
- September 18, 2019, 10:07
Working Abroad Q&A: Each week, Irish Times Abroad meets an Irish person working in an interesting job overseas. This week, Eva-Marie Costello, who(...)

Tracker scandal: AIB drives increase in tracker cases to 40,100
- Financial Services
- July 17, 2019, 01:48
The Central Bank’s final report on the tracker mortgage fiasco showed that the number of impacted customers grew by 300 cases in the first five months(...)

Investors look beyond Dow Jones as bond markets flash red
- Markets
- June 1, 2019, 06:00
Donald Trump’s favourite stocks index – the Dow Jones Industrial Average – has barely fallen 6 per cent between the US president starting May with a t(...)

North’s high street shopper footfall up 4.1% in December
- Retail & Services
- January 14, 2019, 05:01
Shoppers from North and South rushed to make the most of seasonal bargains in Northern Ireland in the run-up to Christmas, propelling retail growth to(...)

Banks in €1bn tracker mortgage scandal face fines next year
- Financial Services
- November 30, 2018, 01:15
Some of the six Irish lenders under investigation by the Central Bank in relation to the State’s €1 billion tracker mortgage scandal can expect to rec(...)

Mars Capital ramps up Irish debt servicing business
- Economy
- March 8, 2018, 06:10
Mars Capital, one of the biggest foreign buyers of Irish mortgages in the aftermath of the financial crisis, is bringing its loan portfolio in-house (...)

Bank of Scotland reveals 184 impacted tracker mortgage customers
- Financial Services
- October 30, 2017, 06:00
Bank of Scotland, which introduced European Central Bank tracker mortgages to the Irish market in 2001, has disclosed that it has identified 184 custo(...)

Central Bank hopes ‘moral suasion’ will help banks do right thing
- Financial Services
- October 20, 2017, 06:13
After two years of an industry-wide examination into overcharging of tracker mortgage customers, Central Bank governor Philip Lane is holding out that(...)

Housebuilder Cannon Kirk exits Nama as Oaktree takes stake
- Commercial Property
- June 23, 2017, 05:30
Dublin-based homebuilder Cannon Kirk is set to exit Nama, having secured financing from US private equity giant Oaktree to help repay its outstanding (...)

AIB compensates 2,600 overcharged mortgage holders
- Financial Services
- June 19, 2017, 06:00
AIB and Permanent TSB have signalled to an Oireachtas committee that they aim to reach important milestones in the coming weeks in relation to a revie(...)