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Deutsche Bank And Unicredit Pull Out Of Greek Repo Market, Cease Lending Against Greek Collateral

Courtesy of Tyler Durden

Bailout rumor refusal – check, bank/country run – check, collateral pulls – check. If anybody tells you there is everything in common between Greece and Lehman/AIG, believe them. The latest escalation in the Greek crisis comes courtesy of Greek daily Banking News which notes that the latest nail in the Greek coffin comes from formerly major Greek players, Deutsche Bank and Unicredit, which over the past 2-3 weeks have ceased accepting Greek collateral and have pulled out of the Greek repo market altogether.

Google translation:

We came to where big banks like Deutsche Bank German and Italian Unicredit Group does not accept bonds as collateral Greek and refuse to lend in the repo market for Greek banks.

It should be noted that Greek banks say when we mean big banks too big. In the last 2 to 3 weeks 3 -4 Greek banks have been requested by Deutsche Bank and Unicredit Group to lend in the repo market, but refused on the grounds that they do not want to risk having to Greek bonds.
We hope our Greek-speaking readers can provide a more astute translation. Yet even as Greece is concerned about collateral eligibility with the ECB in 2011, the sad truth about its precarious and increasingly non-existent collateral exposure will come much earlier than that. Gradually, the country is becoming financially isolated: if the repo market collapses it is certainly game over as no semi-developed country can continue to exist without this core pillar of the shadow economy. In the meantime the vultures keep on circling.
h/t Jason

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