Sentences with phrase «pressure on bank balance sheets»

People are simply not paying interest or principal on money they've borrowed and that's putting immense pressure on bank balance sheets.

Not exact matches

Tasked with avoiding a new financial crisis, the ECB is putting pressure on banks to clean up their balance sheets from unpaid loans inherited from the last recession, a problem for most countries in the south of Europe, as well as Slovenia and Ireland.

There is now significant pressure on banks to deleverage their balance sheets, especially when you consider the banking system has had a significant increase in leverage caused by the net reduction in capital bases (losses of $ 380B exceed capital raises of $ 257B), as well as some banks being forced to buy - back assets from securitized vehicles which they sponsored.

Bailouts in 28 countries since September 2008 have totaled approximately $ 1.5 trillion, a huge sum of taxpayer money that has put pressure on banks to improve their balance sheets and their performance.

Instead, all are banking on the continued climb of crude to fuel higher cash flows, which would help alleviate some of the pressure on their balance sheets.

«Finally, in circumstances where a major central bank is continuing to expand its balance sheet or maintaining a large balance sheet over a sustained period, this policy would likely exert downward pressure on term premiums around the globe, especially in those foreign economies whose bonds were perceived as close substitutes.

Then there's the unwinding of the Fed's balance sheet — the unprecedented debt load the central bank took on during the financial crisis of the previous decade — and that's supposed to put upward pressure on interest rates, too.