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Ulster Bank has appointed former Communicorp CEO Gervaise Slowey to its board of directors. Ms Slowey is an independent strategic consultant. Previously she headed up Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp radio group for four years to the end of 2016, and before that was an executive with advertising giant Ogilvy Worldwide. She is also currently an independent

Irish Life Group are set to acquire a strategic shareholding in Ireland’s largest Irish-owned independent financial consultancy, Invesco.

Lender KBC says it is embracing innovative technology and partnering with skilled fintechs in order to compete in the financial services landscape.

Domestic firms spent 36pc of the €4.6bn invested into innovation here in 2016, with multinationals responsible for the balance.

A new register of businesses is set to include details of owners’ Personal Public Service Numbers (PPSN).

For the last decade, a lot of Irish SMEs have struggled to access the funds they need to succeed. As the financial crisis took hold, sources of credit dried up. Many Irish businesses found it next to impossible to access affordable finance.

In the first half of 2016, just 3,600 of us, or 0.06pc, switched our current account to another bank.

A motorist was shocked when his annual motor insurance renewal quote rocketed to an incredible €19,000.