Bank Guarantee
# bank-guarantee - Monday 20 May, 2013
Ireland’s banks are borrowing less and less from the ECB
New figures show Ireland’s banks are now less reliant on emergency loans than at any other time since September 2008.
# bank-guarantee - Friday 29 March, 2013
After four years and €64.1 billion, bank guarantee is finally scrapped
Ireland will still guarantee bonds issued by banks since 2010, but will no longer guarantee new bonds or high-level deposits.
# bank-guarantee - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Bank of Ireland CEO received total pay of €843,000 last year
Bank of Ireland’s annual report reveals a minor pay increase for Richie Boucher, despite pre-tax losses of €2.17 billion.
# bank-guarantee - Monday 4 March, 2013
Bank of Ireland loses €2.1 billion in 2012
Looking to the year ahead, its chief executive, Richie Boucher, said that “taxpayers are very much in the money with regard to Bank of Ireland.”
# bank-guarantee - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Poll: Do you feel more positive about Ireland’s economic situation?
With the Bank Guarantee set to end next month, is Ireland’s economy finally stabilising?
# bank-guarantee - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
The Evening Fix… now with added under-the-radar authors
Here’s all the things we learned, loved and shared today.
Noonan announces end of the Bank Guarantee
The Minister said that this marks a significant step in the normalisation of the Irish banking system.
The 5 at 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# bank-guarantee - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Irish banks continue to wean off ECB’s funding
The latest figures show usage of the ECB’s refinancing facilities by the Irish covered banks dropped €13 billion in December.
# bank-guarantee - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
EU approves six-month extension of Ireland’s bank guarantee
The approval is seen as routine and may be the last extension, with the possibility of a withdrawal early next year.
# bank-guarantee - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Oireachtas agenda: Bank guarantee, personal insolvency, health funding
James Reilly will today tell an Oireachtas committee about the funding challenges the health service will face in 2013.
# bank-guarantee - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
AIB raises €500 million in auction of three-year bond
The almost entirely State-owned bank raises €500 million by selling a bond which is not guaranteed by the government.
# bank-guarantee - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
Banks repay €3.3 billion in fees from State guarantee schemes
New figures show the seven banks covered by the State’s guarantees have returned €3.36 billion so far.
# bank-guarantee - Monday 1 October, 2012
GALLERY: Protestors occupy AIB branches over €1 billion bond repayment
Sinn Féin protested at AIB’s O’Connell St branch – while the Occupy movement moved into Grafton St – to protest the move.
# bank-guarantee - Friday 24 August, 2012
Deposits in Irish banks up 10 per cent in last year
The Department of Finance says increases in deposits at Ireland’s covered banks demonstrate “depositor confidence”.
IBRC records €724 million loss in first six months of 2012
IBRC, or the bank formerly known as Anglo, is making steady progress towards an orderly wind down.
# bank-guarantee - Saturday 28 July, 2012
9 videos that sum-up Ireland’s banking and economic collapse
“We are where we are” and “we all partied”. We look back at those turbulent two years that led us towards Ireland’s current economic state.
# bank-guarantee - Wednesday 18 July, 2012
Poll: Should the Oireachtas be allowed to investigate the bank guarantee?
Two Oireachtas committee are vying for the chance to investigate the bank guarantee four years ago but should politicians be allowed to scrutinise the decision in the first place?
# bank-guarantee - Tuesday 17 July, 2012
VIDEO: Kenny, Martin argue over ‘missing’ bank guarantee files
Fianna Fáil says the Taoiseach is “throwing out conspiracies like a man standing at a bar at a pub”.
# bank-guarantee - Sunday 8 July, 2012
The banking inquiry… who’s going to carry it out?
Is there a turf war between the Public Accounts Committee and the Finance Committee on who’s going to do the digging? And what about revisiting the Oireachtas inquiries referendum?
# bank-guarantee - Thursday 5 July, 2012
Here are the questions that need to be asked about the bank guarantee
That is, according to the Public Accounts Committee, which wants to hold a public inquiry into the collapse of Ireland’s banking sector.
# bank-guarantee - Sunday 1 July, 2012
The 9 at 9: Sunday
Nine things to know this morning…
# bank-guarantee - Saturday 16 June, 2012
Column: I know what Ireland needs – a National Muppets Day
We don’t commemorate much, writes Fergus O’Connell. But we should remember the bank guarantee – and the people who brought us to that point.
# bank-guarantee - Tuesday 12 June, 2012
FF says Taoiseach must clarify suggestion bank guarantee file was shredded
Enda Kenny said today there was no file in the Department of Taoiseach related to the discussions surrounding the bank guarantee of September 2008, suggesting it may have been shredded.
# bank-guarantee - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
Honohan’s call for direct recapitalisation of banks is ‘€64bn too late’ – SF
Sinn Féin has welcomed a call from the governor of the Central Bank for distressed banks to be directly recapitalised from EU funds.
# bank-guarantee - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
Ex-Iceland PM says trial ‘is not an example’ for other countries
Geir Haarde was found not guilty on all but one of the five charges brought against him by authorities in Iceland. He was the first world leader to go on trial over the global financial crisis.
# bank-guarantee - Sunday 15 April, 2012
Public demand for full investigation into banking crisis to be answered
The probe could see former government ministers, civil servants and banking executives account for their actions ahead of the September 2008 bank guarantee
# bank-guarantee - Tuesday 27 March, 2012
Cowen compares banking crisis to ‘multiple plane crashes occurring at once’
In a speech in Washington, the former taoiseach also attacks conventional political thinking in advance of the crisis.
# bank-guarantee - Friday 9 March, 2012
TheJournal.ie’s progress report for the Government: Banking and the IMF/EU deal
It’s possibly the single biggest issue facing the government – but how has it dealt with the troika deal and banking in its first year?
# bank-guarantee - Sunday 4 March, 2012
So what exactly were Fianna Fáil apologising for?
Party leader Micheál Martin has given details – and said he didn’t meet Bertie Ahern at yesterday’s ard fheis.
# bank-guarantee - Monday 12 December, 2011
The 5 at 5: Monday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Ulster Bank lost €925m in deposits when Bank Guarantee kicked in
The Irish arm of RBS lost £732 million in deposits in the four days after the government guaranteed its native competitors.
# bank-guarantee - Thursday 8 December, 2011
AIB will not pass on ECB’s 0.25pc cut to mortgage customers
AIB says its funding costs are not driven by the ECB’s own rates – and that it needs to ensure it makes money for the taxpayer.
Europe gives green light to extending Ireland’s bank guarantee
The European Commission has approved the extension of the government bank’s guarantee – for six months longer than needed.
# bank-guarantee - Thursday 1 December, 2011
Labour TD votes against renewing bank guarantee scheme
Tommy Broughan has been expelled from the Labour parliamentary party after he voted against extending the controversial bank guarantee scheme.
Poll: Should Ireland extend the Bank Guarantee Scheme?
TDs and Senators will today vote on extending the guarantee by 12 months. Today we’re asking you: how would you vote?
TDs to vote on extending bank guarantee for another year
The Government is seeking to extend the controversial measure – which it voted against extending while in Opposition.
# bank-guarantee - Tuesday 29 November, 2011
Anglo tops chart for bank spending on home repossessions
The four State-guaranteed lenders spent almost €7million on legal fees to repossess borrowers’ properties over the last two years.
# bank-guarantee - Wednesday 16 November, 2011
Noonan confirms plans to extend bank guarantee
Michael Noonan has accepted the advice of Patrick Honohan and proposes to extend the Eligible Liabilities Guarantee Scheme.
# bank-guarantee - Friday 11 November, 2011
Dáil committee agrees to draw proposals for banking inquiry
The Public Accounts Committee is to examine whether it can hold an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the bank guarantee.






















































