Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland

9:30 am

Ms Francesca McDonagh:

We shared our €900 million investment strategy with the market recently through our investor day. I spoke about deepening and broadening this investment. We deepened it to include other systems also. Previously it was very much focused on our core, but we have included new systems such as our mortgage platform. While price is important, speed of response and clarity is also important for people when they are going through the big decision on buying a home. We have also looked at our various channels. I do not want to have to wait until the call banking, which is a big programme, is done before we become better at some of our mobile applications, including the technology that our customers face into. We are looking to improve our mobile banking proposition during 2019.

At the end of this investment our customers will have a bank that is simpler to engage with and where processes are quicker. There will be absolute clarity, independent of which channel customers choose to engage with us on, and where they do not have to speak to lots of people to get something sorted. We will have a single customer view of every customer across all their products and channels. It will be simple, at the channel of their choice and more efficient. This will also have an impact for our shareholders because of the lower cost of running a better system.

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