European banks sitting on unsafe assets


THE discovery that 64 of Europe’s biggest banks may be sitting on 806 billion euros (US$1.04 trillion) of potentially unsafe assets, has rocked the credibility of the latest stress tests.

A new study had found that these were deemed potentially unsafe because their holdings of sovereign bonds were not being fully risk assessed, said Reuters.

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