Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: KBC Bank
2:00 pm
Ms Dara Deering:
We have made significant enhancements to our process. It can be done in five steps, five minutes, on a mobile app since July of last year. To clarify the point, more than 80% of new customers who join the bank, who take out a mortgage, avail of the discount of 20 basis points. They open a current account at the time of taking out a mortgage. The numbers to which the Deputy refers relate to existing customers.