DUBLIN (Reuters) - Deposits held by Ireland's domestically-owned banks rose by 0.6 percent in March, data from the country's finance department showed on Wednesday, indicating no knock-on effects from the tax on savers imposed under Cyprus' bailout last month. Deposits at Bank of Ireland <BKIR.I>, permanent tsb <IPM.I> and Allied Irish Banks Group <ALBK.I> rose by 0.9 billion euros (773.31 million pounds) to 155.6 billion euros due to strong retail inflows, the department said.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's financial regulator and deputy central bank governor Matthew Elderfield will step down later this year to return home to the United Kingdom, the central bank said on Monday. Elderfield, the first non-Irishman to head Ireland's regulator, was hired in 2010 as part of a shake-up of regulation after a wave of reckless lending to property developers led to the collapse of the Irish banking sector.

SEOUL, March 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's financial regulator said Monday that it will push for an overhaul in local banking firms' governance structure, focusing on reducing excessive power wielded by their chief executives. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) plans to draw up measures that will prevent heads of Korea's major banking holding companies from abusing their power, according to officials.

Ireland's bailed-out economy grew by 0.9 percent in 2012 but stagnated in the final quarter of last year, official data showed on Thursday. "Preliminary estimates indicate that GDP (gross domestic product) in volume terms increased by 0.9 percent for the year 2012," said a statement from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). "This is the second year in succession in which GDP showed an increase over the previous year following three years of declines... during 2008 to 2010." The annual figure was in-line with the eurozone country's own government forecast.