Full coverage: Banking

Granted, Credit Suisse was a bad bank. But it's unsettling to see any bank with a thick capital cushion going to the wall.

Silicon Valley Bank's collapse has been noted by Irish bank shareholders. But that doesn't mean the banks are at risk.

I went to Silicon Valley to meet with top-tier tech companies. As the meetings progressed, its main bank collapsed. Beyond the Bay Area’s travails, the impact of SVB’s failure on monetary policy in the near term may be significant.

The warning signs were there, yet very smart people entrusted their companies to SVB. It would seem to make no sense. Why is this happening?

In the last two years, AIB has more than doubled and Bank of Ireland has more than tripled in value. First-half results now available for both institutions tell the story.

The decision to cut costs by removing cash services from 70 AIB branches was the logical decision for a normal publicly-listed company. But the majority state-owned bank isn't one.

The tracker scandal was not an outlier for AIB. As the sad tale of the Belfry Funds shows, the bank has repeatedly put its own interests above those of its customers.

Francesca McDonagh’s decision to leave Bank of Ireland has once again highlighted the thorny issue of salaries and bonuses in Irish banks. And, despite the complaints of bankers, the government will be ultra-cautious about relaxing the current regime any time soon.

Businessman Paul Mackay battled Charles Haughey over his finances and was a founding member of the Progressive Democrats. More recently, he has sought to highlight the massive erosion in value at the Irish Credit Bureau. He tells his story to Tom Lyons.

Unlike Russia’s biggest banks, which are state-owned and cut off from western debt markets, Alfa Bank has been using Ireland to raise more and more funds from investors. An investigation by The Currency charts the money trail.