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Global web and application server Nginx is to create 100 jobs at a new facility in Cork.

Energy firms face probe for manipulating costs to keep consumer prices high.

Consultancy giant Accenture is to add 300 jobs to its Dublin operation in a move that will increase the size of the firm’s headcount in the capital to 2,500.

Revenue Commissioners have issued a warning about the latest email scam to hit people’s inboxes.

The total cost of the bank bailout is now likely to fall “comfortably” below €30bn, taking into account a surplus from Nama, Investec’s Philip O’Sullivan said yesterday.

GIBRALTAR’S top insurance regulator has insisted that companies there operate at the same standard as others in the EU, including Ireland.

KBC Bank said it will look at buying bank or insurance businesses here after taking a decision to remain in the Irish market. Ulster Bank and Permanent TSB have long been tipped as potential tie-up partners for KBC Ireland. A merger with one or both would add scale to the business here, which is dwarfed

Former CRH chief executive Myles Lee is joining the board of UDG Healthcare as a non-executive director. He’ll take up the role in April.

THE EU faces a crisis that threatens the sustainability of the eurozone after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that Greece’s debts are on an “explosive” path despite years of austerity measures and economic reforms.

Almost a fifth of wholesale finance activity within the European Union could shift to Ireland after Brexit, a Brussels-based think tank has projected.