Der Spiegel has a handy graphic detailing the extent and the depth of the Financial Services sector in Cyprus...
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The above lumps together couple of things that should, really, be addressed:
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The above lumps together couple of things that should, really, be addressed:
- Cyprus' financing needs only cover banks recapitalisations to the deposits base as provided by the end-of-January 2013 figures. Since then at least EUR3-5 billion and more likely even more fled the country. And selection bias suggests that larger depositors (potentially with more political connections) were more likely to avail of 'systemic' exemptions to withdrawals in recent days.
- As termed deposits mature, more will leave, unless the Government imposes involuntary lock-in for depositors with termed contracts.
- Cyprus' financing needs above do not include non-CB and non-deposit funding for the banks that is going to mature in months to come and has to be replaced by some other source of funds (presumably we can assume that ECB / ELA will step in, but I don't see how that arrangement in the medium term can be pleasing to the ECB).
- The deposits above do not break out MFI deposits, corporate deposits and personal deposits. It is one thing to bail-in personal accounts and yet altogether another matter to bail-in corporations and other banks (the former are subject to more strict capital controls than the latter two).
These are material risks to the sustainability of the Cypriot 'bailout' programme.
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