Mortgage service provider paid a €17.1 million dividend to its immediate parent last year

Firm has cut back on hiring graduates to train as accountants in recent years as it vies for data scientists and coders

Lender says employees will work from one of its offices for a minimum of three days a week from January

Fine is fourth-biggest financial penalty ever imposed by the Irish financial regulator

Plan to buy back $300m of shares will bring total repurchases since 2018 to $9.7bn

Deficit of €900m recorded for 10-month period, compared to a surplus of €1.3bn a year earlier

AIB said its share of new mortgage lending so far this year was 31%

Government and consumers need a buyer that can turn Ireland’s third bank into a real competitor for AIB and Bank of Ireland

Deal brings total the State has recovered from bank’s crisis-era bailout to almost €20.2bn – leaving a shortfall of over €600m

The bank has 3,360 staff and 98 branches

Dermot Desmond, John Magnier and JP McManus netted a huge windfall from the sale of their Barchester Healthcare business this week to listed US group Welltower

Goldman Sachs has been hired to manage sale

Fund, which about 8,000 Irish investors back, faced an uptick in redemption requests in the third quarter

Lower average rate on billions of euros of excess deposits stored with ECB a factor

Holders of Ardagh’s senior bonds have backed a major debt restructuring plan