Showing posts with label Euro area credit supply. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro area credit supply. Show all posts
Monday, July 27, 2015

27/7/15: IMF Euro Area Report: The Sick Land of Banking

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The IMF today released its Article IV assessment of the Euro area, so as usual, I will be blogging on the issues raised in the latest repo...
Monday, July 14, 2014

14/7/2014: Irish Banks are Open for Lending... when no one is looking?

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Remember all the Irish banks advertorials in the media about the lending easing they engaged in when it comes to SMEs? The story, as it is...
Friday, March 7, 2014

07/03/2014: To sterilise or not to sterilise... ECBs (possible) next dilemma

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Yesterday, I was asked by a journalist a question about the possible effects of ECB non-sterilising SMP operations.  The question w...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

24/12/2013: Should Government Do More on Credit Supply? Or Do Better?

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We commonly hear about the need for the Government to do something about 'credit supply' to the real economy and 'fixing the b...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

30/4/2013: German credit keeps flowing to firms... & still there's no growth

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Per German Ifo institute: " Credit constraints for German trade and industry edged downwards by 0.1 percentage points compared to Mar...
Monday, August 13, 2012

13/8/2012: Euro area ABS markets

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Here's a good post on what is happening in the European Asset Backed Securities markets: link . So much for the hopes of a short-ter...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

2/2/2012: Euro area credit supply remained constrained in Q4 2011

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ECB's Bank Lending Survey (BLS) for January 2012 is out, showing dramatic failure of the December 2011 LTRO to kick start supply of cr...