Sentences with phrase «problems on bank balance sheets»

20) Echoing point 17, we face real problems on bank balance sheets from commercial real estate lending.

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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.

While the US and the UK are generally emerging from these problems — both on account of their more thorough - going balance sheet repair and because of their more successful conduct of QE operations by their central banks — they nevertheless must attempt to recover and grow in an environment that is adversely affected by the policy missteps in the Euro - area and Japan.