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06 July 2009

European banking needs a state-led triage body


A Solution for Europe’s Banking Problem would be the creation of a “European Bank Treuhand”, a fiduciary entity that would be created jointly by those countries with the main continental European banks.

A Solution for Europe’s Banking Problem would be the creation of a “European Bank Treuhand”, a fiduciary entity or trustee that would be created jointly by those countries where the main continental European banks are headquartered.

The Treuhand would have three main tasks:
 
·          apply  a trial (process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority) to all  large or heavily cross-border banks
·         serve as the catalyst for the intergovernmental negotiations to recapitalise and restructure those financial institutions that are insolvent
·         manage those assets and institutions thus brought into public ownership on behalf of the owning national governments.
 
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