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.