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European Banks Prepare For €1 Trillion Debt Rollover Tidal Wave

European Banks Prepare For €1 Trillion Debt Rollover Tidal Wave

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, courtesy of Clusterstock/Business Insider    

From The Telegraph:

European banks need to roll over €1 trillion (£877bn) of debt over the next two years at a much higher cost and in direct competition with hungry sovereign states, according to a report by Morgan Stanley.

The bank has advised clients to prepare for chillier times as monetary tightening begins in the US and China, causing major spill-over effects in Europe.

Roughly €560bn of EU bank debt matures in 2010 and €540bn in 2011. The banks will have to roll over loans at a time when unprecedented bond issuance by governments worldwide risks saturating the debt markets. European states alone must raise €1.6 trillion this year.

Read more at The Telegraph>>

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