european banking debt

Financing costs for European banks will increase after TLTROs

Credit Investors Take Heed: A Different Landscape Will Emerge For European Banks

Sam Theodore (Scope Insights) | The pandemic is fast pushing the European banking sector into a new and different stage; one that none of us could have anticipated. At this time there is no reason for credit investors to fear outright bank failuressincethis is not a copycat of the last financial crisis.(Even so and rather surprisingly, the risk of default for European banks is high in several credit-strategy models). There is, however, a clear need to reassess some of the underpinning rationales for investing in the debt of European banks.The dynamics of the landscape a rechanging and a return to the past is not likely anytime soon.