The sale of PTSB is set to step up a notch in January with the bank and its advisers on track to call on parties circling the bank to submit firm expressions of interest by the end of the month. Joe Brennan reports.

This will determine whether to push the process into a binding bidding round.

Avant Money has expanded its “soft launch” of a deposit offering the market, though the formal roll-out of its savings products has drifted into early 2026.