
Joe Brennan
Markets Correspondent at Irish Times
Markets Correspondent with The Irish Times. Ex Bloomberg finance reporter in Dublin. E-mail: [email protected] https://t.co/hSrpaMGAt7
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12 hours ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Brennan
FD Technologies chair Donna Troy has urged investors to back a £541.6 million (€643.04 million) sale of the Newry-based data and analytics company to US private equity firm TA Associates at a special meeting on June 30th, saying there are risks to it delivering on its full potential as a standalone public company.
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1 day ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Brennan
AIB has agreed to sell its 49.9 per cent stake in AIB Merchant Services, which helps businesses accept card payments from customers, to its joint venture partner, the US financial technology group Fiserv. The Irish bank booked €34 million of income from its minority stake in 2024. The transaction will have the effect of boosting AIB’s capital reserves – measured as common equity Tier 1 – by 0.35 of a percentage point, it said in a statement. This equates to about €215 million.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Brennan
Emeis is a French nursing home group formerly known as Orpea. It entered the Irish market in 2020 through the takeover of the TLC Nursing Home portfolio and followed up with further deals. A review of all nursing homes operated by Emeis Ireland has now been requested by the Department of Health.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Brennan
The European Central Bank (ECB) cut its key deposit rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 2 per cent on Thursday, leaving it at half the level of a year ago when its governing council started to reduce the cost of borrowing. The bank also reduced its main lending rate, to which tracker mortgages are linked, by a quarter of a point to 2.15 per cent, as inflation continued to ease.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Joe Brennan
The UK’s financial watchdog said on Thursday it plans to decide on whether to launch a compensation scheme for mis-sold car loans within six weeks of an imminent court ruling. This would likely bring clarity for Bank of Ireland, which has a 2 per cent share of the UK motor finance market, on the ultimate cost of an industry-wide saga.
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