Is my Rabo deposit protected

ANSWER - RABODIRECT IS NOT COVERED BY IRISH GAURANTEE SCHEME !!!

WHICH BANKS ARE COVERED BY GAURANTEE (30th September 2008)

The guarantee pledged by the Government today applies to six lenders - four banks and two building societies.
The move comes ten days after the Government increased the statutory limit for the deposit guarantee scheme for banks and building societies from €20,000 to €100,000 per depositor.

Today's move sets no limit to the funds guaranteed at the six named lenders. The guarantee expires in September 2010:

The banks and building societies covered are:

Allied Irish Bank
Bank of Ireland
Anglo Irish Bank
Irish Life and Permanent (Permanent TSB)
Irish Nationwide Building Society
Educational Building Society

The guarantee also extends to subsidiaries of these banks and building societies.

Other financial institutions, many of which are wholly owned by foreign institutions, are not covered under the new scheme.

They are:

National Irish Bank, which is owned by Danish bank Danske
ACC and Rabodirect, which are owned by Dutch bank Rabobank
Ulster Bank and First Active, which are owned by UK bank Royal Bank of Scotland
Bank of Scotland (Ireland) and Halifax, which are owned by the merged UK bank, Lloyds TSB/HBOS
IIB Bank, which is owned by Belgian bank KBC
Irish credit unions
Postbank, which is jointly owned by An Post and Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis

However, the foreign-owned financial institutions above are covered by the Government’s previous Deposit Protection Scheme on sums up to €100,000 or, if they are regulated overseas (NIB and Rabodirect), they can make a request to the Financial Regulator to be covered up to this amount.

NIB has applied to increase its protection to €100,000 and confirmed today that its depositors are now covered up to this amount, while Rabo has not applied to the regulator because they feel their Dutch parent bank is financially strong enough.
 
Any bank regulated by the Irish regulator is covered by the €100k scheme. Banks regulated by foreign regulators are covered by the relevant country's scheme which vary (please see that thread or itsyourmoney.ie)

The 6 banks covered by the full state guarantee (if they get it through the EU competition commissioner) are regulated here and do not have a foreign parent (albeit a high % of the listed banks is owned by overseas investors through the stockmarket)

The Credit unions misssed out as did Postbank(probably because they don't need it as they have no loanbook and no exposure to the hassles of the other banks, also would be long on cash, and are effectively stateowned anyway, 50% by the Irish Govt through An Post, and 25% by the Belgian/Dutch/Luxemburg Govts through Fortis with Fortis shareholders owning the remaining 25%).

The Credit Unions would be long on cash also.
 
I think there was some discussion yesterday that the government might move to protect Irish depositors of 'foreign' banks with a 'significant high street presence'. What does that last phrase mean? Does a bank have to have 'bricks & mortar' outlets?
Just curious, as the buzz words of the last few years have been e-commerce and e-government, e-this, that & t'other. Wouldn't it be ironic then and very telling if an e-bank like Rabo here is not included in any extension of the proposed scheme. All the e-verbage worth nothing and dissapearing into the ether!
 
In times of uncertainity it is probably wiser to have your funds safe.........no matter who says it is AAA rates !!!! AAA rated banks went under !!!

I switched majority of my funds from my Rabodirect to Ulster Bank online as ulster bank is guaranteed for €100K for single & 200K for joint account.

It is probably riskier to leave over €20000 in Rabodirect based on their current deposit protection.........in these uncertain times.

More skeletons have to fall out of the cupboards as more banks start to book the value of their toxic assessts to market value in the coming quarters. May have a domino effect.
 
It is probably riskier to leave over €20000 in Rabodirect based on their current deposit protection.........in these uncertain times.
Why? Your €20K would be 100% guaranteed under the relevant guarantee scheme?
More skeletons have to fall out of the cupboards as more banks start to book the value of their toxic assessts to market value in the coming quarters. May have a domino effect.
This sort of vague rumour-mongering hardly serves much purpose?
 
Is there any truth to Lucanman's assertion that AAA rated banks have gone bust?!!
I just opened an account with them, and was going to put in excess of 20k.
 
The Dutch government has agreed to increase its deposit protection guarantee to €100,000. This guarantee applies to RaboDirect which is regulated by the Dutch Central Bank.


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