Sign up to to get the latest news direct to your inbox daily at 1pm. Puzzles hub. Visit our brain gym where you will find simple and cryptic crosswords, sudoku puzzles and much more. Updated at midnight every day. We would love to hear your feedback on the section right HERE. Banks engaged in a 'reign of terror' on tracker mortgages, committee to hear In one statement, given by Kilkenny man Tony Lawlor, the committee is told that Bank of Ireland sought to deny the basis of the original mortgage contract in pursuit of increased interest payments.
As a result, ECB rates were no longer adopted and applied to his mortgage contract. Mr Lawlor said his health suffered significantly as a result. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies policy.
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Newsletters Podcasts More. Weekly Podcast. The Explainer is a weekly podcast from TheJournal. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. The bank, which is headed up by Jane Howard, has been persistently criticised when it appeared before the Oireachtas Finance Committee for the slow pace of the tracker redress process for its customers.
It has blamed its IT system for its tardiness in putting customers back on tracker rates, refunding them overpaid interest and paying compensation. Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. This was a record penalty for a financial institution in this country. The same amount again has been spent by lenders dealing with the refunds, with heavy use of consultants by most lenders to deal with the massive tracker redress process.
Ulster Bank to be hit with multi-million tracker fine. Not at all. The Central Bank has ordered all lenders to review their tracker mortgage setups because they know the issues at AIB are part of a wider problem. Ulster Bank and Permanent TSB are already in trouble with the Central Bank over their handling of the tracker restorations, with the latter up in court this month and ordered to pay compensation to several customers who went bankrupt after they were wrongfully moved from tracker mortgages to more expensive loans.
Bank of Ireland has also found itself in hot water with British and Irish investors after the bank changed the margin on the original tracker mortgage agreement. This resulted in the repayments doubling in some cases.
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