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ECB’s de Cos: ‘Might Be a Case for Increasing Releasable Buffers’
ECB’s de Cos: ‘Might Be a Case for Increasing Releasable Buffers’ 2 October 2023 By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos on Monday indicated receptiveness to implementing macroprudential policy more flexibly, in particular so as to release buffers in times of stress and thus support lending. In a speech at a conference of the Banco de Portugal in Lisbon, a text of which was published on the website of the Banco de España, which he heads, de Cos said that signs of a positive relationship between lending and how much banks held in ... (full story)