Pushing his desire for a pan-European ‘bad bank’, Governor of the Bank of Portugal Carlos Costa has told a conference in Poland that Europe is being threatened by “zombie banks” – institutions that are technically solvent but cannot increase their credit because of underperforming investments. “We have to break this cycle,” he said, stressing a bad bank could be a guarantee of sovereignty for the European Stability Mechanism.
September 21, 2023 Edition
PORTUGAL RESIDENT
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