The liquidation of IBRC has created a surplus which is likely to be enough to pay off all the unsecured creditors, an update to be published by the liquidators shortly will reveal. This is good news for the exchequer, as it means it will recoup the €1.1 billion paid to depositors on foot of State guarantees, the Irish Times reported. However it also now looks certain that cash will be left to pay off the €270 million owed to junior bondholders of the former Anglo Irish Bank, who would receive their money back after ordinary unsecured creditors are paid in full.

A number of current and former media executives will appear before the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry later this month as it continues its investigation into the collapse of the financial sector here in late 2008 and its subsequent rescue by the State, the Irish Times reported. This module of the inquiry will focus on the role of media during the property boom in the lead up to the banking crisis between 2002 and 2007 and any changes in approach after the crisis.

In the face of growing criticism of the current personal insolvency laws, the government has acknowledged that the current regime needs to be “energised”, TheJournal.ie reported. The coalition will oppose Fianna Fáil’s Family Home Mortgage Settlement Arrangement Bill in the Dáil tonight. The draft law essentially removes the controversial bank veto on proposals to restructure a family home mortgage through the personal insolvency process.

A company that obtained a €2.8 million judgment against Joseph Sheehan and John Flynn, two of the main shareholders in Dublin’s Blackrock Clinic, has secured interim charging orders over Mr Sheehan’s shares in a firm that owns a half share of the private Galway Clinic. Mr Justice Brian McGovern granted the interim orders on the ex parte application (one side only represented) by Bernard Dunleavy SC, for Talos Capital Ltd, at the Commercial Court. The matter will return before the court next week when Mr Sheehan will have an opportunity to challenge the orders.

Two brothers have lost their bid to restrain receivers selling their assets after Allied Irish Banks obtained a €17.6 million judgment against them, the Irish Times reported. Mr Justice Brian McGovern rejected arguments by Paul and Gerard Dormer the €17.6 million judgment granted against them in March 2014 should be vacated due to AIB’s alleged failure to properly complete a January 2014 settlement agreement under which they had agreed to judgment provided specific conditions were met by AIB.

Businessman Sean Quinn’s family have appealed to a High Court judge not to grant the DPP a second deferral of the hearing of their action. They allege they are not liable for about €2.34 billion loans advanced by the former Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, the Irish Times reported. The DPP says there is a “clear threat” to the fairness of criminal proceedings against former Anglo chairman Sean Fitzpatrick, due to open before a jury on April 13th, from the Quinns’ civil action, due to open at the Commercial Court on April 14th.

Rising property prices have not yet lifted a significant proportion of Irish homeowners out of negative equity, according to a new report from the Central Bank, the Irish Times reported. In its latest Household Credit Market Report, the Central Bank presents data which shows that over 50 per cent of mortgages taken out in 2007 were still innegative equity at June 2014. Those who bought in 2005 and 2006 are also likely to still be underwater, with Central Bank showing that approximately 40 and 45 per cent of these home buyers, respectively, are also in negative equity.

Switzerland refused a request for assistance to help bring prosecutions here on the basis of the leaked HSBC Geneva banking files, according to the Irish Revenue Commissioners. Revenue chairman Niall Cody has also told the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts that 13 people are the subject of ongoing investigations arising from the Swiss data, with the amount in their accounts involving a maximum of $14.83 million.

Professor of Accounting at UCD, Eamonn Walsh told Deputy Pearse Doherty that using today’s standards Anglo would still appear as if it were on course for a profit of almost half a million euro, the Independent reported. “There has been no change in standards so one could reach much the same conclusion today as one would have reached in 2008”, he added. The inquiry has also heard how inaction by both the Central Bank and the Banking Regulator had resulted in “costly failure” and how political bias may have unduly influenced the decision to bring in the Bank Guarantee.

Shareholders in technology developer Altobridge say that questions remain to be answered over the decision to place it in receivership last year, the Irish Times reported. Intel Capital and the World Bank appointed a receiver to Altobridge last year on foot of a secured debt in a move that resulted in the loss of 45 jobs at its base in Tralee, Co Kerry and a further 85 in its offices outside Ireland. The exchequer footed the bill for the Irish workers’ statutory redundancy payments, which came to more than €270,000, through the Department of Social Protection.