por admin » Dom Jun 13, 2010 9:35 pm
Los datos muestran la gran exposicion de los bancos en la zona euro.
Los bancos Alemanes y Franceses son los mas expuestos a los paises de la zona euro afectadas por la crisis.
El Domingo el Bak for International Settlements mostro que la banca de la zona euro tiene $1.58 trillon o 62% de los activos de Grecia, Ireland, Portuga y Espania.
Eso incluye $727 billones de Espania, $402 billones de Irealnd, $244 billones de Portugal y $206 billones de Grecia, con la mitad de la deuda Griega en poder de Francia.
De lejos, Francia y Alemania tienen la mayor cantidad de deuda o 61% de la deuda, $493 billones y $465 billones respectivamente.
Data Show Big Exposure For Banks In Euro Zone
By NATASHA BRERETON
LONDON—French and German banks continued to hold the greatest exposure to euro-zone countries facing market pressures at the end of last year, underscoring their interest in restoring investor confidence in the region.
Data released Sunday by the Bank for International Settlements showed that banks based in the 16 countries that use the euro accounted for $1.58 trillion, or 62%, of all internationally active banks' exposures to residents of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.
That included $727 billion of exposure to Spain, $402 billion to Ireland, $244 billion to Portugal and $206 billion to Greece, with about half of the Greek exposure held by France.
By far, France and Germany held the greatest exposure to the group, collectively carrying 61% of the total euro-area burden: $493 billion and $465 billion, respectively.
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Of that total exposure, almost half was to Spain—$248 billion for France and $202 billion for Germany—with French banks particularly exposed to the Spanish nonbank private sector, while more than half of German banks' foreign claims on the country was on Spanish banks.
British and German banks had exposures to Ireland of $230 billion and $177 billion, respectively, while Spanish banks had the greatest exposure to Portugal, at $110 billion.
Government debt in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, meanwhile, accounted for only around 16% of euro-area banks' exposure, with $106 billion belonging to France and $68 billion to Germany. Of that, $48 billion of French exposure was to Spain, $31 billion was to Greece and $21 billion to Portugal, while in the case of Germany it was $33 billion, $23 billion and $10 billion, respectively.
As a percentage of Tier 1 capital, German, French and Belgian bank exposure to Spain, Greece and Portugal's public sectors amounted to 12.1%, 8.3% and 5%, much higher than other countries.
European Union finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund agreed last month to commit €750 billion ($907 billion) to support euro-zone governments that have difficulty borrowing in the international bond markets, while the European Central Bank began to buy euro-zone government bonds in an effort to bring down borrowing costs. The U.S. Federal Reserve also simultaneously reopened dollar swap lines with several major central banks.
The unprecedented package of measures was agreed on in response to concerns that strains linked to the Greek debt crisis could spread further afield.
The BIS noted that although moves in asset prices immediately following the announcement of the measures suggested that contagion had been stopped, confidence soon deteriorated anew on concerns about the possible interaction between public debt and growth.
On a more positive note, it pointed out that government-bond auctions in the second half of May saw strong demand, and that participation in dollar auctions by non-U.S. central banks was limited.
"The modest participation suggests that banks were more concerned about counterparty credit risk than access to U.S. dollar funding," it said.
The BIS noted that despite sharp moves in euro-area spreads in sovereign credit-default swaps, stemming from investor concerns about the region, relatively little sovereign credit risk was actually reallocated via the CDS markets.
In a separate report, it also found that while large depreciations in currencies tend to be associated with substantial permanent losses of output, since the losses usually take place before the fall in the currency, it is likely the factors that spur the drop in the currency's value rather than the depreciation itself that is the trigger. Taken alone, the currency depreciation can actually be good for output, it said.