{"id":42684,"date":"2025-09-04T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:45:09","slug":"sbci-chief-june-butler-quits-to-return-to-bank-of-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42684\/","title":{"rendered":"SBCI chief June Butler quits to return to Bank of Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/strategic-banking-corporation-of-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/strategic-banking-corporation-of-ireland\/\">Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland<\/a> (SBCI) chief executive June Butler has quit the \u20ac300,000-a-year role to return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bank-of-ireland\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bank-of-ireland\">Bank of Ireland<\/a> for a senior position. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms Butler has been rehired by the country\u2019s largest domestic bank by assets to become head of corporate and SME banking. Bank of Ireland executive Michael Lauhoff had previously held the position before he became head of specialist banking, making him responsible for areas spanning property and construction, infrastructure and international leverage finance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The role had been held on an interim basis since then by Kevin Baxter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokesman for the bank confirmed Ms Butler\u2019s appointment in a statement in response to questions from The Irish Times on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Ms Butler originally joined Bank of Ireland in 2003 from PwC and ultimately became head of its then so-called SME banking and sectors business. She left four years ago to join SBCI, which had been set up by the Government under the aegis of the National Treasury Management Agency in 2014. It avails of both national and European funding and other supports for the purpose of making low-cost, longer-term credit available to Irish SMEs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The SBCI has deployed more than \u20ac4 billion to more than 60,000 businesses to date through a network of 40 lending partners, including mainstream banks, non-banks and credit union. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The agency also administered certain Government supports for businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic, including its \u20ac2 billion credit guarantee scheme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe are delighted to welcome June back to Bank of Ireland. Her deep expertise in SME and corporate banking, combined with a strong track record in strategic delivery and stakeholder engagement, will be invaluable as we continue to grow and support our corporate and business customers across all sectors,\u201d said John Feeney, chief executive of Bank of Ireland\u2019s corporate and commercial banking division in the statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAt a time when businesses are facing challenges on multiple fronts, from global market volatility to the accelerating pace of technological change and the growing imperative of sustainability, her leadership will be key to helping our customers navigate complexity, adapt with confidence and seize new opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">In her new role, Ms Butler will lead a team of 200 colleagues serving the needs of 3,000 companies across the island of Ireland, the bank said. She will oversee relationships with private businesses, multinationals, and publicly quoted companies, as well as leading our foreign direct investment team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) chief executive June Butler has quit the \u20ac300,000-a-year role to return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[625,79,18,19,17,32231],"class_list":{"0":"post-42684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bank-of-ireland","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-strategic-banking-corporation-of-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}