Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Cormac McCarthy:

It was very much an internal ... you know, I mean, when we would produce results, or, you know, our annual results for RBS, we would have kind of reiterated our ambition, but we did no more than advertise our product and our services, as others would have done, so there was no ... there was no kind of branding externally to that effect. It was a generally held ... there was a lot of talk in the market over many years as to the need for a third force. It became kind of the lingua franca of the time, so we didn't go out and post that on posters.