{"id":21322,"date":"2016-06-30T19:59:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T00:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21322"},"modified":"2016-06-30T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T00:59:23","slug":"is-europe-in-trouble-again-hints-of-portuguese-italian-bank-bailouts-suggest-not-all-is-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21322","title":{"rendered":"Is Europe In Trouble Again: Hints Of Portuguese, Italian Bank Bailouts Suggest Not All Is Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Europe In Trouble Again: Hints Of Portuguese, Italian Bank Bailouts Suggest Not All Is Well<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In the aftermath of\u00a0Germany refusal to allow Italy to breach Eurozone regulations<\/a>, and provide its banks with up to \u20ac40 billion in new capital, Italy has unveiled a new track to handle its insolvent banks and as\u00a0Reuters reports<\/a>, the Italian government may have to inject capital directly into weaker banks to bolster their financial strength, a government source said on Thursday, adding it was waiting for the results of stress tests being conducted by European banking authorities. The results of the tests are expected to be published at the beginning of the third quarter.<\/div>\n
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The source told Reuters the government was also working on a plan to increase the firepower of bank bailout funds Atlante, which was set up in April to help lenders raise cash and sell bad loans, by 3-5 billion euros ($3.34-5.57 billion) by the summer. The source said the government was in talks with private pension funds to seek additional contributions for Atlante.<\/p>\n

Other contributions were expected to come from the state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and from a public company called Societa per la Gestione di Attivita.<\/p>\n

And then, in a surprising follow up, the EU appears to have once again backtracked when Reuters headlines emerged suggesting that Europe would provide up to \u20ac150 billion for Italian banks”<\/p>\n

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  • LIQUIDITY SUPPORT FOR ITALIAN BANKS INCLUDES GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES OF UP TO EUR150 BILLION –EU OFFICIAL<\/li>\n
  • BANK LIQUIDITY SUPPORT WAS REQUESTED BY ITALY FOR PRECAUTIONARY REASONS –COMMISSION SPOKESWOMAN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    But…<\/p>\n

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    • LIQUIDITY SUPPORT APPLIES ONLY TO SOLVENT ITALIAN BANKS –COMMISSION SPOKESWOMAN<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Which, technically is none of them, but practically any bank can – after the sufficient non-GAAP adjustments – pass for solvent.<\/p>\n

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      Is Europe In Trouble Again: Hints Of Portuguese, Italian Bank Bailouts Suggest Not All Is Well In the aftermath of\u00a0Germany refusal to allow Italy to breach Eurozone regulations, and provide its banks with up to \u20ac40 billion in new capital, Italy has unveiled a new track to handle its insolvent banks and as\u00a0Reuters reports, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2015,61,63,109,195,281,359,1464,4696,4318],"class_list":["post-21322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bailout","tag-banking","tag-banks","tag-capital","tag-debt","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-italy","tag-portugal","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21323,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322\/revisions\/21323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}