Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion
1:30 pm
Mr. Ed Sibley:
I can certainly see the attraction to that old-style banking, as Senator O'Donnell has described it, and certain models deliver that.
There is the public banking, Sparkassen-type models and also examples such as Handelsbanken, which is a Swedish bank that is privately owned but very much focused on relationship management. Typically, it would have an extensive branch network and has been reasonably successful with that model. I have a degree of familiarity with the Sparkassen model. When I was in the UK, I used to supervise Landesbank there. I appreciate those-----
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