
The Royal Bank of Scotland has paid out $44m to settle a US criminal investigation that accused its traders of lying to customers over bond prices.

Latest: Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is to meet with top bankers tomorrow to discuss a redress scheme for the tracker mortgage scandal.

Gordon Brown has warned that governments risk "sleepwalking" into another financial crisis if the G20 fails to create an early warning system and clamp down on the shadow banking sector.

(Updated) The Taoiseach’s talk of a Republic of Opportunity is sham and Ireland is in reality a Republic of Opportunism for bankers, according to Sinn Féin deputy leader, Mary Lou McDonald.

KPMG has been cleared by the British accounting watchdog over its auditing of HBOS in the run-up to the lender’s near collapse in the 2008 financial crisis.

KBC Bank Ireland reached a new milestone of over 250,000 customers now banking with KBC with the bank adding almost 33,000 new customer accounts in H1 2017.