Bank funding: Fears of roll-over risk recede

Banks must cope with unreliable market access; Weak loan demand eases funding pressure

The near closure of the debt capital markets to financial institution issuers for most of May and June at the height of anxiety over European sovereign debt sustainability was a sharp reminder to banks: they can no longer take for granted their ability to sell bonds whenever they want to.

The smart learnt this lesson at the end of 2008 and early 2009 and so had got ahead of their 2010 funding requirements earlier in the year before the latest seizure hit.

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