CEO says the institution is primed to boost mortgage market as he notes national upsides of profitability and puts emphasis on green financing
Colin Hunt CEO of AIB. Photo: Steve Humphreys
Colin Hunt says he has no firm views on whether the State should keep a stake in AIB, the bank he’s led for the past six years, but he wonders whether taxpayers might have more pressing needs for the money.
Hunt trained as an economist — completing a PhD under ECB chief economist Philip Lane — and he was a special adviser to Fianna Fáil ministers including then tánaiste Brian Cowen before the crash that eventually swamped the bank where he now works.