Showing posts with label TLTROs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TLTROs. Show all posts
April 11, 2019

For banks to lend to businesses it takes two to tango, liquidity and bank capital.

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Sir, Valentina Romei, with respect to ECB’s targeted longer term refinancing operationswrites “According to TS Lombard: In both Spain and I...
March 13, 2016

Wolfgang Münchau, what has risk weighted capital requirements have to do with the primary functions of banks?

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Sir, Wolfgang Münchau writes: “Monetary policies, like the ECB’s quantitative easing program, filter into the real economy through various ...
December 12, 2014

With capital buffers thin, European Banks can’t handle the higher capital requirements for small business lending.

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Sir, I refer to Lex’s note on the lack demand for ECB’s TLTRO funds, “ Eurozone banks: horsing around ” December 12. It holds: “You can...
September 20, 2014

Mario Draghi lousy Basel bank diet does not work for Europe, or for anyone else.

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Mario Draghi of ECB, as the former chairman of the Financial Stability Board, FSB, knows that current Basel bank regulations implies the fo...
August 18, 2014

Do FT reporters really understand that capital, as in capital requirements for banks, refers not to general funds but to equity?

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Sir, Christopher Thompson reports “ Europe´s banks set for €250bn injection ” August 18. And that money, which according to Mario Dragh...
June 10, 2014

ECB European banks have no lack of funds but they do have an enormous lack of shareholders’ capital.

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Sir, Christopher Thompson and Ralph Atkins report that despite targeted long term refinancing operations, TLTROs, some banks will not lend ...