Spain: Extensive real estate adjustment poses threat on banks’ balance sheets
Spain: Extensive real estate adjustment poses threat on banks’ balance sheets
Global & Regional Focus Notes
23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011
• The savings banks restructuring scheme is expected to improve the soundness and the efficiency of the Spanish banking sector. • Further correction in the real estate sector is expected to keep exerting pressure on the Spanish financial system. • Sovereign debt tensions and uncertainty over the final cost of banks restructuring to the state create a negative feedback loop.