Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tony Grimes:

It is in part, but actually it just reflects the type of ... the type of asset they have. And, just to be fair to the institution involved, it's as much that they hadn't what we call market driven ... marketable securities in their portfolio. Much of the portfolio was in ... in the form of individual loans, and the haircut automatically, across the system, applicable to individual loans, tend to be higher, because of the nature of those.