Small businesses got slammed by rising interest rates in the fourth quarter of last year as the cost of new borrowing jumped by more than a full percentage point, according to the latest Central Bank data.
A German unit of Italy’s UniCredit was wrong to withhold $68m (€63m) in payment guarantees owed to Irish units of Dublin-based aircraft leasing giant AerCap by insisting that to do so would have breached sanctions imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the High Court in London has ruled.
A formal resolution on Flutter’s proposed additional US listing will be put to shareholders at the group’s AGM next month following “very strong support” from shareholders.