Negative rates may be curbing credit case-by-case, says UniCredit’s Mustier

Banks have benefited from negative rates, but EBF president Jean Pierre Mustier says the downsides are increasing.

UniCredit CEO Jean Pierre Mustier

Jean Pierre Mustier, head of the European Banking Federation and chief executive of UniCredit, has given a stark warning to the European Central Bank (ECB) on the risks of negative rates.

Speaking to Euromoney as part of an in-depth article on the effect of negative rates on banks, Mustier says the policy could already have curtailed credit supply or made it more expensive, on a case-by case basis – for particular banks, or particular clients.

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