Eurozone crisis
Falling T2 balances bode well for eurozone’s stability
Impact of fragmentation would be less severe today than in 2010s, says Marcello Minenna
EU Covid policies resurrect sovereign doom loop fears
Italian banks could see holdings of home country debt increase to 17% of their total assets
Banks in EU periphery lose most on soured loans
Irish, Spanish, Italian banks also have to wait longest to recover loaned funds to borrowers in default
Own-sovereign risk higher in peripheral eurozone countries
Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Irish and Spanish banks have 51% of their sovereign portfolios invested in domestic debt
BoE and ECB weigh calls to follow US lead on capital relief
European regulators face pressure to exempt sovereign exposures from leverage ratio
EU banks cut toxic loans, but pace of improvement slowing
Cypriot and Greek banks improve NPL ratios the most in nine months to end-June
Lifetime achievement: Benoît Coeuré
Risk Awards 2020: The departing ECB executive has helped transform eurozone financial markets
Europe eyes the pitfalls of Japanification
Does the cultural and demographic experience of Japan apply to a heterogeneous grouping of nations that have no common monetary policy or a unified social outlook?
EU banks pare own-country sovereign exposures
Banks held €1.76 trillion of domestic government bonds in Q2 2019, down from €1.91 trillion a year ago
Greece leads EU on cutting toxic loans in Q2
Non-performing loan ratio of Greek banks falls to 39.2% from 44.8% a year ago
FCA has active pipeline of misconduct investigations
As expansion of SMR to smaller firms looms, regulator says plenty of bankers are under scrutiny
Peripheral EU banks free encumbered assets
Ratio of encumbered assets to total assets at Greek banks falls to 23.9% from 31.6%
Soured loans tick up at EU banks in Q1
Total stock of NPLs hits €663 billion
Sovereign spreads and Target2 anomalies
Widening risk imbalances between eurozone member states threaten monetary union, says Italian regulator
Q&A: ‘Stop talking about rules’ – Basel’s Coen
Standard-setter’s top staffer is moving on. He wants industry to do the same
EU banks cut €56bn of toxic loans
The region’s NPL ratio stood at 3.2%, down 20bp on the previous quarter
UniCredit plans Italian bond retreat
The bank's BTP portfolio is currently larger than those of Intesa Sanpaolo, Banco BPM and Mediobanca combined
Sovereign risk weights cannot wait
Why reform of Basel rules is urgent – and how to improve on December 2017 proposals
Four Greek banks in breach of LCR
Alpha Bank, Eurobank Ergasias, National Bank of Greece and Piraeus Bank short €22.5 billion of HQLA
Intesa Sanpaolo slashed bad loans 26% last year
NPL ratio plummets to 4.2% from 6.2% in 2017
EU banks slash €32 billion soured loans in Q3
Italian, Greek and Spanish banks cut most toxic loans