Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Mike Aynsley:
So Anglo found itself in a situation where the asset values were falling, and falling dramatically. There was very little asset portfolio left that you could use, at the end of the day, to centre-post a new good bank. And even if you argued that, well, perhaps it was big enough to create a small business bank, the funding issue was a large one. Deposits were still leaving the country and this is why one of the reasons was taken to structure up quickly this funding bank structure to take the deposits that were left out of Anglo and put them with an institution, AIB, that could use those to support its business as one of the pillar banks going forward.
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