Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Donal Forde:

Well, let me ... let me explain, I suppose, the way that the process would work. We would have a divisional profit target for the year that would break down into a whole variety of different lines of business. There'd be an advance as growth target and then that would break down between an expectation of growth in margins or growth in commercial loans, each elements of the portfolio, and there would be a margin attributed to that growth. So, example, the loan book in totality was to grow by 10%. The expected margin on that was, let's say, 1.5%. So the expected profitability outcome through the course of the year would be whatever the ... whatever the rate dictates. What would go on through the course of years, obviously each of those lines would vary, so you would be endeavouring to improve the margins on lines, and as you improve the margins, then clearly there wasn't the same pressure for volume growth. But I was accountable for the totality of that, and ... the totality being the profitability that fell out of it by the ... by year-end.

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