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Fenway Sports Group is selling roughly a third of Liverpool FC to a consortium led by Amit Bhatia, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eduardo Saverin, at a $7 billion valuation — the largest ever placed on a football club stake.
From a Munich startup founded in 2013 to a profitable pan-European bank with Irish customers, N26's journey tracks the rise, stumble and renewal of the European neobank model.
With 100,000 pre-registered customers, a full European banking licence and €83.5 million invested in Dublin, Monzo's Irish launch is the biggest digital-banking entry since Revolut.
Austria's BAWAG Group has agreed to acquire Permanent TSB in a €1.62 billion all-cash deal. The Irish government will sell its 57.5% stake for €931 million, closing fifteen years of State ownership of the bank.
AIB has launched its biggest digital overhaul in more than a decade — a redesigned mobile banking app built with 3,000 customers, backed by a €300 million annual technology budget, and rolling out to 2.8 million app users.