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EBA Updated Risk Dashboard: improvements in the management of NPLs but concern on banks profitability
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Ott
13
2018
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the periodical update to its Risk Dashboard, which summarises the main risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector using quantitative risk indicators. In the second quarter (Q2) of 2018, the updated Dashboard identified ongoing improvements in the repair ...more »
Ott
11
2018
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a report setting out the analysis behind the FSB’s proactive assessment of the potential implications of crypto-assets for financial stability. This report includes an assessment of the primary risks present in crypto-assets and their markets, such as low liquidity, ...more »
Ott
11
2018
As part of its thematic discussions on growth and jobs, the Eurogroup of 1 October will discuss the role of national ‘automatic stabilisers’ within the economic and monetary union. Public finances play an automatic stabilising role when deficits respond at unchanged policies to the economic ...more »
Tagged width: eurozone, politica monetaria
Ott
06
2018
In the decade since the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers sparked the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, regulation and supervision of the financial sector have been strengthened considerably. This has reduced the risk of another crisis, with all its attendant ...more »
EBA: preliminary impact of the Basel reforms on EU banks capital and updates on liquidity measures in the EU
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Ott
06
2018
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today two reports, which measure the impact of implementing Basel III reforms and monitor the current implementation of liquidity measures in the EU. The EBA Basel III capital monitoring report includes a preliminary assessment of the impact of the ...more »
Ott
06
2018
Trading in foreign exchange and other fast-paced electronic markets is increasingly spread across a range of platforms, with non-bank intermediaries, most notably principal trading firms, gaining a stronger foothold. In addition, access to data and data-centric technologies increasingly defines competitive and market structure changes. The ...more »
Ott
06
2018
By decision of 4 March 2015, the European Central Bank (ECB) put in place a secondary markets public sector asset purchase programme (‘PSPP’). The PSPP is one of the four sub-programmes of the Expanded Asset Purchase Programme (‘APP’) announced by the ECB in January 2015 and ...more »
Tagged width: asset purchase, ecb, politica monetaria
Set
27
2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) published a first thorough report taking look at the impact on taxpayers of the financial sector support measures taken in the latest ten years, following the Great Financial Crisis. This is done by focusing on the measures’ impact on deficits ...more »
Set
27
2018
The Bank for International Settlement (BIS) published an extended report aimed at assessing which factors can determine local lending by banks’ foreign subsidiaries. The literature on the behaviour of global banks has focused mainly on cross-border. It is however interesting to explore the local lending market ...more »
ECB: the implications of US-China trade war
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Set
26
2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) issued a report assessing the impact on the real economy of the increasing wave of protectionism that is affecting global trades. Particularly, the study focuses on the possible impact on the global economy of a hypothetical escalation in trade tensions, ...more »
Tagged width: ecb, monetary policy
