Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Cyril Roux:
Well first you have to remember that I came into banking supervision in 2010, okay? And then I would say it is not all about the supervisor. It is also about the business model of banks. So the French banks in the main are universal banks, so they do not do only property-related lending; they do a lot of customer finance. We don't have ... there is no credit unions so the small loans are also part of the business model of the banks. Then, I guess, the structure of the economy is such that there is more industry to finance, so there is more industry financing. Aircraft leasing, aircraft financing and shipping is also done within the banks and not outside of the banks. It is different as well in the way that mortgages are protected through mortgage insurance and they are re-financed through securitisation and covered instruments are quite different from covered banks and the covered instruments, they are very different animals. Also they are a lot more internationally diversified than----
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