Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Cormac McCarthy:

I don't think so, the process was different. So the underwriting process in Ulster Bank would have been different and, therefore, it would have been appropriate that the Ulster Bank would have gone through the appropriate process for Ulster Bank, so, no it wouldn't have been, but given the fact that the product had already gone through an internal new product approval process, it had gone through the RBS risk process, then it would have been ... it would have been reasonable to expect that there .... that product would have been launched. It was not unusual to launch products across brand but, for good governance, it was important that the Ulster Bank risk committee went through it and if they had concerns or issues, that would have been escalated as well.