Bank inquiry seeks Boucher’s views on extent of guarantee

Bank of Ireland chief executive Richie Boucher will face a grilling this week at the banking inquiry over discrepancies between accounts offered by senior executives at the bank and their counterparts at AIB on the night of the guarantee.

Boucher, who was head of retail at Bank of Ireland at the time of the guarantee, will be asked about his interpretation of the extent of the banking guarantee, and whether it extended to ...