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Illustration: Tom Hughes |
The ECB’s March meeting did almost as much good for sentiment in European banks this year as the damage it did last year. Twelve months earlier, there was little sign of a wider regulatory let-up to muffle the cut in the ECB’s deposit rate to -0.4%, despite some attendant measures by governor Mario Draghi to try to ease the blow on banks.
A year ago, it sounded like a death knell for the industry, as investors worried that the biggest banks in two of the biggest European economies – clobbered by fines and bad debt – were close to missing subordinated-debt coupons.
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