Yiannis Stournaras

Relations between the Bank of Greece (BoG) and the government were never soured, BoG Governor Yiannis Stournaras told journalists after a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday. Talks between the two focused on the Greek banking system and developments...

Attica Bank has become the unofficial battleground in the war between Bank of Greece governor Yiannis Stournaras and the Greek government. The reason is that the BoG chief is doing his job and doesn't allow the Alexis Tsipras administration...

With the consent of Bank of Greece and major shareholder TSMEDE, Theodoros Pantalakis will be the new executive director of Attica Bank, a problematic lending institution. Bank of Greece governor Yiannis Stournaras had previously turned down a proposal by the...

The economic crisis is not over yet, despite the fact that some of the fiscal targets are met, said Bank of Greece Governor Yiannis Stournaras on Tuesday. Stournaras met with creditors' representatives to discuss non performing loans, the state of...

Bank of Greece Governor Yiannis Stournaras announced a proposal submitted to Greece's creditors on Monday by the Greek Ministry of Finance that calls for a loosening of capital controls. During a discussion on the Bank of Greece report on...

The easing of capital controls is so that people who keep their money at home would deposit them to banks, said Bank of Greece governor Yiannis Stournaras. The BoG chief spoke to German financial newspaper Handelsblatt saying that the withdrawal...

An agreement between Greece and its international creditors is a matter of days, Bank of Greece (BoG) Governor Yiannis Stournaras said on Greek TV on Thursday. According to information he receives, "we are very close and it is a matter of...

A report released last month by the Bank of Greece had estimated that the migrant crisis may cost Greece as much as 600 million euros this year, or approximately 0.3% of its gross domestic product. Bank of Greece Director Yiannis...

The debate on the reduction of Greece’s public debt is likely to start the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) spring meeting on April 15, the country’s central banker Yiannis Stournaras said in an interview with Italian paper “Il Sole 24...

Greece is very close to exiting the crisis as long it does not repeat past mistakes, Bank of Greece governor Yiannis Stournaras said in the bank's annual report released on Thursday. In the report, the central banker noted that the...