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Greece Further Relaxes Capital Controls to €5,000 per Month

Greece's finance ministry has further relaxed capital controls with a decision sent for publication in the Government Gazette on Thursday, raising the monthly limit for cash withdrawals to €5,000 ($5,850) per depositor a month, from €2,300 at present. The decision...

Greeks May See Further Easing of Capital Controls

Reports in Greece are suggesting bank customers will see the amount they can withdraw each month rise to between €4,000-€5,000 ($4,700-$5,880). Currently there are capital controls on Greek account holders, restricting them to withdrawals of up to €2,300 per month. If...

Greek Banks Get Positive Stress Test Results from Moody's

The results of a stress test round for the four Greek systemic banks -- Alpha Bank, Eurobank, National Bank and Piraeus Bank -- are "credit positive" and showed the resilience of their supervisory capital, Moody's said in its Credit...

Top Greek Banks would Lose €15.5 Bln of Capital in Stress Scenario: ECB

Greece’s four biggest banks said on Saturday that no new funding plans were needed after stress test results showed they would lose around 15.5 billion euros of their capital by 2020 under an adverse economic scenario, Reuters says. The health...

German Press: Greek Banks Pass ECT Stress Tests

"The four major Greek financial institutions do not need new capital injections," said German financial newspaper on Sunday, reporting on the stress tests the Greek banks are undergoing. "Relief in Athens: Piraeus Bank, Eurobank, National Bank (NBG) and Alpha Bank...

Stress Testing for Bad Loans Hits Greek Banks

International pressure to make Greece's biggest banks increase their provisions against bad loans has seen the country's major institutions take up billions of euros in cover. A report by Bloomberg on Tuesday revealed that Alpha Bank, Eurobank, the National Bank...

Private Deposits Boost Greek Banks

An increase in private deposits in Greek banks in December 2017 is credit positive, Moody's said on Thursday. The credit rating agency, in a credit outlook report, said Greek banks' deposits from the private sector grew by €5.9 billion ($7.3...

National Bank of Greece Ends Need for European Aid

The National Bank of Greece (NBG) is the first Greek bank to have entirely eliminated its dependency on the European Central Bank's Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA), bringing its ELA borrowing to zero, sources said on Friday. Greece's Athens-Macedonian News Agency...

EU: Greece has Almost Half of Eurozone's Bad Loans

Non-performing bank loans (NPLs) are a constant threat to the eurozone's banking system and a new report by the European Commission shows Greek institutions own almost half of them. According to Friday's data released by the EU Commission and the...

More Than 40 Greek Hotels to be Auctioned off in 2018

More than 40 hotels all over Greece are expected to be sold in 2018 with high and non-performing loans being the main reason for the auction of those, expected in the first six months of the year. The first wave...