Business Post subscribers can read:

• What ‘risky and speculative’ action Michael Fingleton took during his time in charge of Irish Nationwide Building Society, according to the prosecution

• What the court heard was the scale of the estimated losses at INBS

• What the court heard about the ‘enthusiasm’ of the financial markets in the early noughties

Michael Fingleton was gambling with the Irish Nationwide Building Society’s (INBS) money when he approved “risky and speculative” commercial loans, the High Court has heard.