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...But NPLs are declining. Including the yet to complete sale of a €2.7bn portfolio of NPLs to Apollo, gross NPLs stood at €4.8bn at the end of last year. Organic NPL reductions over the year were €1.2bn....
...In addition, the recently-published FSR25 highlighted risks related to higher market volatility as a result of normalisation of US monetary policy; the growth in real estate lending during 2013-14; reliance...
...The UK’s economy expanded by 2.6 per cent last year, marking the fastest rate since 2007 and up from 1.7 per cent in 2013....
...Morgan Stanley estimates that €45bn in capital has been raised since July 2013 in preparation for European regulators’ bank stress tests....
...The total NPL exposure amounted to €9.5bn. As of H1 2013, HGAA had €1.1bn of core capital and €1.9bn of subordinated capital....
...“They’re high by western European standards, but there hasn’t been any noticeable increase in NPLs recently....
...As a result, banks’ non-performing loans increased significantly: by the late 1990s the large state-owned banks’ aggregate non-performing loan (NPL) ratio exceeded 30 per cent (Huang 2006).[1] These banks...
...as both depositors and borrowers....
...In Barclays’ eyes anyhow the probably paths for the crisis now look like this: 1) Maintaining the peg at current parity until EUR adoption in 2013. This remains the official strategy....
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