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You’d know the General Data Protection Regulation is less than a year off. With Europe’s big regulatory stick getting closer and closer, big companies are really starting to get into gear.

A MAJOR study on the impact of the digitalisation of the manufacturing industry is being commissioned by the Government to examine the opportunities and challenges that it presents the sector.

The State’s consumer protection body has fired a warning shot across the bows of banks that use cashback deals and loyalty discounts to compete for mortgage customers.

Property-related loans accounted for 30pc of total new lending to non-financial sector SMEs last year, the Central Bank has said.

Rental costs have continued to increase but there are signs that the rises may be moderating. Private sector rents were up 7.37pc in the year for the first three months of the year.

House prices are not overvalued here even if they are rising strongly, the Central Bank has said. Prices have risen by about 50pc since they bottomed out in 2013, but are still 31pc below their peak.

The European Union plans to give itself powers to move euro clearing business away from London’s financial sector to the EU after Brexit and to adopt a model closer to that operated by the United States.

Until recently Euro clearing was an obscure corner of the financial markets that mattered mostly to the people who worked in it and their clients.

Holidaymakers are taking huge risks by not buying adequate travel insurance, a financial expert has warned.

Your Business Live, Ireland’s major SME event brings you the Irish Business Monitor – an indicator for businesses in Ireland, in partnership with SFA, IBEC and Enterprise Ireland.