Sean FitzPatrick, the former Anglo Irish Bank chairman, will stand trial in October of next year.
He faces 12 charges of failing to tell the bank's auditors the true value loans worth €139m given to him, or people connected to him, by Irish Nationwide between 2002 and 2007.
At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today, Judge Martin Nolan fixed October 7, 2014 as the trial date - and was told the trial will take about two months.
Mr FitzPatrick was not present at today’s short hearing after being excused from attendance on a previous date.