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Fin Min in talks with European Commission, ECB on Hercules III

21 September 2023 Editors

The activation of the third cycle of the Heracles state guarantee program is in the final stretch. The Ministry…

No loan payment problems after 10th rate hike from ECB

18 September 2023 Editors

The 10th consecutive increase in interest rates decided by the ECB last Thursday in order to tame inflationary pressures does…

SSM warns banks of new NPLs

27 March 2023 Editors

The head of the ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism, Andrea Enria, has expressed fears of a new wave of bad debt…

Enria (SSM): “Bad debt at a historic low in Europe”

10 February 2023 Editors

Andrea Enria, the chairman of the supervisory board of the European Central Bank (ECB), pointed out the low stock of…

Enria: “Our priority is to reduce old NPLs and avoid new ones”

2 December 2022 Editors

Reducing legacy NPLs and preventing an excessive build-up of new NPLs continues to be a priority for ECB Banking Supervision.…

Expectations about the availability of bank loans are falling significantly in the eurozone

8 May 2020 Editors

Euro area small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) reported a decline in turnover (in net terms – 2%, from 20% in…

These are the ECB’s scenarios for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic activity in the euro area

1 May 2020 Editors

The ECB has drafted three alternative scenarios to illustrate the range of likely impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the…

As creditors refuse extension to homes protection, Greece puts state aid on mortgages on table

23 April 2020 Konstantinos Papagrigoris

Lenders insist on their position to not extend the home protection framework beyond May 1st. Greek government will ask lenders today to put in place a new institutional framework that will allow the state to subsidize mortgage installments.

ECB eases collateral rules to pre-empt potential rating downgrade

23 April 2020 Christos Ziotis

ECB took another decisive step to mitigate impact of possible rating downgrades on collateral availability. The Central Bank aims to ensure that banks have sufficient assets that they can mobilise as collateral with the Eurosystem to participate in the liquidity-providing operations and to continue providing funding to the euro area economy.

ECB meets on junk bond collateral rules

22 April 2020 Editors

President Lagarde drew the line at buying debt directly from euro zone governments and has poured cold water on the notion of “helicopter money” drops for households.