Jeremy Masding has said that he regards himself as a guest in Ireland. A Welshman with a Greek wife, who took his first step into banking at Barclays as a teenager in 1984, Masding uprooted his family in 2012 to relocate to Dublin as the newly appointed chief executive of Ireland’s third largest bank, Permanent TSB (PTSB). It was a brave move.
“It was a big decision for me because at the time I wasn’t sure that the bank would be fixable,” he recalls.
Six years after Masding’s arrival in Ireland, a handful of his hosts appear to have forgotten one of the fundamental principles of hospitality, which is to avoid being rude to your guests.
At a recent hearing at the Houses of the Oireachtas (parliament) finance committee, one local politician accused PTSB of behaviour that would make Pontius Pilate blush – and a good deal else besides.
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