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Waterford Savings
Bank is founded on
7 August 1816
1816
1817
Cork Savings Bank is
founded on
20 December 1817.
Dublin Savings Bank
is founded on
11 February 1818.
1818
1819
Monaghan Savings
Bank is founded on
26 April 1819.
Limerick Savings Bank
is
f
ounded on 10
Janua
r
y 1820.
1820
1884
The Irish
T
empe
r
ance Benefit
Building Soci
e
t
y is e
s
tablished
in the Dublin
C
o
f
f
ee
P
alace on
1 May 1884.
Irish
T
empe
r
ance Benefit
Building changes its
name to Irish
P
ermanent
Benefit Building Soci
e
t
y
.
1888
1940
The o
f
ficial name of the
building soci
e
t
y is simplified to
Irish
P
ermanent Building
Soci
e
t
y
.
Irish Permanent Building
Society acquires
13 O'Connel Street for its
head office
1953
1963
Irish
P
ermanent Building
Soci
e
t
y becomes the la
r
ge
s
t
building soci
e
t
y in I
r
eland.
In the fi
rs
t of a series of
savings bank me
r
ge
rs
,
Monaghan Savings Bank
is acqui
r
ed
b
y Dublin
Savings Ban
k
.
1977
1986
Cork Savings Bank and
Limerick Savings Bank
merge to form the Cork and
Limerick Savings Bank.
W
ate
r
f
o
r
d Savings Bank
me
r
ges with what is n
o
w
kn
o
wn as
T
ru
s
tee Savings
Bank
(
T
SB) Dublin.
1988
1992
C
ork and Limerick
Savings Bank me
r
ges
with
T
SB Dublin and
T
SB Bank is launched.
Irish
P
ermanent Building
Soci
e
t
y d
e
-mutualises and
becomes a publicly li
s
ted
compan
y
.
1994
1999
Irish
P
ermanent me
r
ges with Irish
Li
f
e, the la
r
ge
s
t insu
r
ance p
r
o
vider in
I
r
eland. Irish Li
f
e &
P
ermanent plc is
c
r
eated with Irish
P
ermanent
continuing to ope
r
ate as the banking
arm of the g
r
ou
p
.
Irish Li
f
e &
P
ermanent
acqui
r
es
T
SB Bank which is
integ
r
ated with Irish
P
ermanent to c
r
eate a n
e
w
r
e
tail bank –
P
ermanent
T
S
B
.
2001
2002
P
ermanent
T
SB is launched
to the mar
k
e
t as the
r
eb
r
anded banking
ope
r
ation of the Irish Li
f
e &
P
ermanent G
r
ou
p
.
Irish Li
f
e &
P
ermanent
r
epo
r
ts
significant losses as a
r
esult
of the collapse of the p
r
ope
r
t
y
mar
k
e
t and the ensuing
financial crisi
s
.
2009
2011
Irish Li
f
e &
P
ermanent
r
equi
r
es a g
ov
ernment
bailout and becomes
99.2%
s
tate
o
wned.
P
ermanent
T
SB sepa
r
ates f
r
om Irish
Li
f
e &
P
ermanent and becomes a
wholly
o
wned subsidia
r
y of
P
ermanent
T
SB G
r
oup Holdings pl
c
.
F
ormal
r
e
s
tructuring plans
f
or the
Bank a
r
e app
r
ov
ed
b
y the Eu
r
opean
C
ommission.
2012
2015
P
ermanent
T
SB
r
e
turns
to p
r
ofitabili
t
y
f
or the
fi
rs
t time since 2007.
P
ermanent
T
SB joins with the
f
our other
r
e
tail ban
k
s
ope
r
ating in I
r
eland to launch
the Irish Banking
C
ultu
r
e Boa
r
d
whose purpose is to help
r
ebuild public tru
s
t in Irish
financial in
s
titution
s
.
2019
2021
P
ermanent
T
SB signs a
binding ag
r
eement to
acqui
r
e €7.6 billion of R
e
tail
and SME ass
e
ts f
r
om Ul
s
ter
Ban
k
, including the Lomba
r
d
A
ss
e
t Finance busines
s
.
The bank is n
o
w firmly
f
ocused on deli
v
ering
su
s
tainable comme
r
cial and
p
r
ofitable g
r
o
w
th as
w
e
continue to g
r
o
w our sha
r
e
in the Irish mar
k
e
t
.
2022
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y
ond...
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