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European Union finance ministers are examining ways of co-ordinating
recapitalisations of financial institutions after they agreed that
additional measures were urgently needed to shore up the region’s banks.
Although the details of the plan are still under discussion, officials said
EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg had concluded that they had not done
enough to convince financial markets that Europe’s banks could withstand
the current debt crisis.
“There is an increasingly shared view that we need a concerted, co-
ordinated approach in Europe while many of the elements are done in the
member states,” Olli Rehn, European commissioner for economic affairs, told
the Financial Times. “There is a sense of urgency among ministers and we
need to move on.”
“Capital positions of European banks must be reinforced to provide
additional safety margins and thus reduce uncertainty,” Mr Rehn said. “
This should be regarded as an integral part of the EU’s comprehensive
strategy to restore confidence and overcome the crisis.”
In a sign that European governments were preparing to act, Wolfgang Schä
;uble, the German finance minister, said Berlin could, if necessary,
reactivate support mechanisms it put in place in 2008 to recapitalise the
banks. The mechanisms had expired and the German government had until now
insisted they were not needed.
“Everyone said the big concern is that worrying developments on the
financial markets will escalate into a banking crisis,” Mr Schäuble
said at a press conference.
Some of the biggest banks in France, Germany and Belgium hold tens of
billions of euros in sovereign bonds from struggling peripheral eurozone
countries, which have seen their bond values plummet amid fears Greece is
close to defaulting on its debts.
George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor, said: “It’s clear now that the
European banking system needs to be strengthened and needs more capital.”
Markets have been unsettled again this week by troubles at Dexia, the Franco
-Belgian lender, which holds €3.5bn in Greek bonds and €15bn in
Italian bonds and has been struggling to raise enough short-term cash to run
its day-to-day operations.
The French and Belgian governments said they would take “all necessary
measures” to prop up Dexia.
US equities dipped into bear market territory at one point on Tuesday –
defined as a drop of 20 per cent from the previous high in April – although
the S&P 500 index recovered to push into positive terrain. Britain’s FTSE
100 dropped 2.6 per cent, closing at 4,944.
The mounting concerns over a Greek default sparked a sharp fall in banking
stocks and a flood of money into US Treasuries and German Bunds.
Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, saw its shares fall 4.3 per cent
after the company cut its 2011 profit forecast and announced 500 job cuts.
Some European officials had hoped to avoid a large-scale effort to shore up
eurozone banks until the bloc’s €440bn bail-out fund is formally
given powers to recapitalise financial institutions in countries not covered
by bail-out programmes.
But the process of getting the fund new powers has proven slower than
expected, with three countries – including Slovakia – yet to approve the
EFSF’s overhaul. Because the EU risked being overtaken by events, Mr Rehn
said finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed on the need to act
through national capitals while co-ordinating their approach.
A first step would likely be to ensure all countries have mechanisms in
place to prop up their banks.
Mr Rehn cautioned that while there was “no formal decision” to begin a
Europe-wide effort, co-ordination among EU’s institutions – including the
European Central Bank, European Banking Authority and the European
Commission – on necessary measures had intensified.
Finance ministers left open the exact means of how the recapitalisation
could be co-ordinated.
One option being examined is to set a new higher capital requirement for
banks that went through an EU stress test last summer. The Commission and
the European banking authorities working up that plan among other variants
of a stress test.
Other member states argued more forcefully for national regulators to take
the lead and recapitalise weak institutions on a bank by bank basis. |
