Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Cormac McCarthy:
I think our loan-to-deposit ratio for the group in Ireland as a whole was of the order of between 150% and 200%. So that would not have been at odds typically with the system at the time, as wholesale funding had increased significantly in the previous five to ten years. But in addition Senator, as the liquidity crisis hit in late 2007, increasingly funding fell into the wholesale environment so that was our ratio at the time and that was not atypical of institutions at the time. And we had limits, RBS had Financial Services Authority in the UK limits imposed on how much they could lend us as well and they were observed at all times.
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