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Photo by MacroPolis Banks gear up for 2020 stress tests as evaluation begins

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced last Friday the beginning of the stress test process for 2020, an EU-wide exercise that will be led by the European Banking Authority (EBA) and will examine 35 significant euro area banks, which are directly supervised by the ECB and cover 70 percent of banking sector assets in the eurozone.

Photo by MacroPolis BoG runs numbers to show how tackling NPE stock will benefit banks' bottom line

In the financial stability report it issued last week, the Bank of Greece (BoG) emphasised the need for banks to reduce significantly the stock of non-performing exposures (NPE) and improve the composition of their capital base, 60 percent of which consists of deferred tax credits (DTC) and inhibits the systemic credit institutions.

Photo by MacroPolis BoG urges banks to improve quality of capital, re-doubles SPV efforts

In its latest financial stability report published on Thursday, the Bank of Greece (BoG) took stock of the various positive developments and encouraging signs for the economy and banking sector, while highlighting the challenges for systemic local banks, emanating from the quality of the loan portfolio and the composition of the capital structure that largely constitutes of deferred tax credits (DTC).

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