ECB temporarily relaxes NPL regulation

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The European Central Bank announced measures today (March 20) to lower regulatory requirements in the treatment of new non-performing loans under public guarantee during the Covid-19 crisis.

The ECB will allow banks to resort to guarantees and moratoriums offered by authorities to tackle the crisis. Specifically, “loans which become non-performing and are under public guarantees will benefit from preferential prudential treatment in terms of supervisory expectations about loss provisioning,”

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