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Is The ECB Masking Accelerating Deposit Flight In Italy And Spain?
While LTRO may have slowed the need for immediate asset sales and larger deleveraging in European banks, the two most significantly worrying trend concerns remain front-and-center - those of deposit flight and lending cuts. The latter remains a concern for the BIS, who note in their recent report, that lending curtailment by European banks focused primarily on risky (non-sovereign) and USD-denominated (EM mostly) debt as banks sought to reduce risk-weighted assets (RWA) to meet Basel III capital rules. It would appear though that banks remain in deleveraging (asset sale) mode, in anticipation of the end of ECB facilities down the road, which will become increasingly troublesome given the encumbrance of so many of their assets already by the ECB itself. What is most concerning though is the dramatic and accelerating deposit outflows from not just Greece but Italy and Spain (which just happen to be by far the largest 'takers' of LTRO loans).
Spanish and Italian (SPIT) banks dominated the use of the ECB's LTRO facilities, while Finland/Germany/Luxembourg (FINGEL) banks took only modest amounts...
but the rise in the ECB's deposit facility shows that FINGEL dominated the additions while SPIT increased only very marginally...
As most importantly - Deposits are flooding out of SPIT banks...
In other words, as more and more deposits outflow from these two major sovereign nations' banking systems (notably to Finland, Germany, and Luxembourg apparently), the only way to fund bank liabilities (as long as the interbank market remains dead - which is likely given everyone's self- and projected-knowledge) will be the ECB.
And as deposits fall, the need to reduce assets can only accelerate problems within these large Spanish and Italian banks - especially as they replace liabilities with their own sovereign bonds in the reacharound carry trade - leading to an increasingly concentrated systemic risk concern in these banks. Should we see any more macro pain in Italy and Spain (which seems a given), the steepness of their bond curves will accelerate (anchored at the short-end by LTRO-fed carry trades and ECB SMP) until it becomes uncontrollable and the front-end snaps leaving margin calls and collateral damage for the ECB and the banks...
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All funny fiat money. Like the funny numbers. Now go out and spend damnit!
Of course they are.
http://jamesturkblog.blogspot.com/
i dunno why these euro deposits are fleeing...the banking system is all euros from the ECB
@ Silver Bug
Just to save anybody else clicking on your link, it says..
"James Turk - $400 Price Target for Silver".
I hope so, and I hope Trav agrees!
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No currency is safe right now looks like....even my broker is telling me add to metal and oil ETFs.......
Why do you have a broker?
You can only legally trade paper through a broker, BUT, MFG demonstrated the implied license to steal, SO, get physical and forget paper.
can't wait to click that link
But, but, but, we're the worlds largest eCONomy, right?
We're in the drivers seat, aren't we?
And the question of the day is....
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If BoomBustBloggers remember, I went on a tear with my theory of European bank runs last summer. Reference:
Look, pretty charts too!
Trust me we haven't seen anything yet, Spain and Italy are on a knife edge and they will collapse.
IMO the most important question to ask: is the Federal Reserve purchasing stocks?
I mean, someone is, and it's nobody I know...
FED secret central banksters buying up every bond and stock it can....and no one sees this endgame playing out. Peek-a-boo! I see you!
The High Frequency Trade is most definately tied to the FED imo. They have figured a way to control the market or system with few people suspecting or knowing the difference. No way do the fundamentals of this slow of a growth projection manage this high of a stock price without the programmed trading.
:)
+1
It is amazing what you can do if you are willing to take unlimited losses because you have a printing press and no one checking your books.
It takes geometrically expanding effort and wealth to maintain our fiat currency system. They can pretend that America has limitless wealth for them to syphon off with an expanding money supply. But the fact is, there is nothing left for them to continue without just flat out printing.
Does it matter if they are doing it themselves, or if they are passing out free money for others to do it?
It doesn't really matter in the end. Government interference is behind most bubbles. Stocks are safer than paper money. But as a measure of wealth in a non-nominal sense, they will do badly in inflation, and extra badly in the aftermath of inflation. Historically, the only people who win in the end are those in gold and foreign currencies...Good luck finding a foreign currency that is going to make it.
At this time, you can only accumulate gold and wait to spend it after the dust settles on this experiment.
I think the RMB will be a good currency over the next decade. Anyone paying attention can see the US and China are trading places, and their standard of living is rising while ours is declining. That should lead to less exports and a consumption economy. They're accumulating a lot of gold, too, which one could assume is to back their paper and make the RMB the world reserve currency.
I'm 35, so I doubt I'll be alive to see the end game. I know everyone thinks it's close, but grandmasters can drag a game on for a long time...
Not to worry. Plans are in place to kill most of of us before the dust settles. Shouldn't take more than a year or two max.
DEVO.........yes
and it will eventually break your mommas back
Yea keep 'masking' everything as if no one knows....the world is now run like a babies game of peek-a-boo.
Soon they will all learn to buy shovels instead of opening bank accounts.
Draghi is Italian....he is probably unaware of the nature of the society he grew up in....
i am fakuhsing on ze depozitz, let me seenk for a moment.
That's funny I thought he was from Goldman...
draghi is a GS's chameleon - a drag queen's whore,... that greases-up for, and as goldilocks, anxiously anticipating the next anal-leakage hemorrhoid north of the vatican's hellenic cheshire' grin
All those euros leaving Spain and Italy are staying in euros, just jumping to another country. The real capital flight will occur when depositors abandon paper and move to phyz.
Thou shall not withdraw any deposit/security.
Shhhh...can you say...Bank Run.
My cousin lives in Switzerland. She told me she has most of the money at Intesa San Paolo (italian bank). I told her to move the money out. She took my advise.
Is she hot?
Absolutely. But she got married in September last year.......with an american.
she'll find out americans are scum of the earth.
Incorrect, in this situation. American men are known the world over as the best husbands. And American women are known the world over as the worst wives. Word!
You used the word "best" once too much and the word "worst" once too little. Otherwise, you're accurate.
Any pics?
Oh,no, no, no. Hot mediterranean girl though.
She used to work at UBS in Switzerland but she hated it.
I think I can speak for everyone when I say we ain't buying a word of it without pictures.
LOL.
Sorry.
mason jar federal biatchez. same intrest rate too
Hoarding cash is a natural reaction to distrust of banks.
Goes to show 2 things:
A) Those with capital in these countries, aren't stupid. They probably read article here. Get your shit out now, while the warning signs are there. Wish I had same type of transparency of central fail before the Full Tilt Poker scandal!
Bank of Sealy, bitchez!
B) High unemployment/taxes/costs of living = less deposits/cash in the bank, just common sense.
Where's that money all going to? Usually to the people also lending it (ECB).
IS LTRO mainly "domestic" banks buying domestic debt ? - if so - is this a clear signal for the renationalisation of the European monetory ecosystem ?
So then basically the next 'Greece' on deck is Italy and Spain...I just wonder when they officially kick off the festivities and announce 'Uh oh, we got trouble here'.
Just today Jun(c)ker and Strangle-Schauble were screaming "Spain is not like Greece". Clear sign Spain is in BIG trouble. Official denial is the classical sign. Reminds me abt the good old days when the head of europonzi, Mr Rehn, gave the kiss of death to Portugal by denying they have a problem. Two weeks or so later Portugal went tits up. Lol!
Apple not so "iDisappointing", making all time highs yet again, Zerohedge iWrong on Apple as iUsual.
No one here who knows anything has a called a top in AAPL. We have long since abandoned our state of disbelief. You can't enjoy a good fantasy movie if you keep asking questions pertaining to reality. Try watching (or reading if that's your preference) Game of Thrones. If you can handle a 13 year old girl surviving a funeral pyre and hatching 3 dragons' eggs then you are ready to play this Game of Ponzis.
Actually one of the best series I have ever read.
@ I am a Man I am Forty
Are you the reincarnated Robotrader?
Please say it is so!
anyone watching the ES this morning...
volume data problems at the cme....only reporting a fraction of the volume
reason for the extra slow trade
Interest rates in Spain and Italy peaked when the data in the above charts ends, in January.
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GBTPGR10:IND/chart
I can't wait to see if the trend of money outflows continued or reversed in 2H Jan and Feb.
so they trust the euro but not the banks.
When talking about deposit additions, you can take FIN out of FINGEL. It is Germany and Luxembourg where people park their funds, Finland hasn't exactly been known as a banking haven. Besides, GEL and SPIT somehow belong together.
The Finnish current account seems to be slipping into negative. In other words, Finland has been losing competitiveness vs. Germany during her time in eurozone, albeit at a slower pace than say, Spain or Greece. In case of return to old currencies, Deutschmark would gain more than any other of the current eurozone members. Hence, that's where the deposits are being made.
Caymans are a nice place to visit before storm season.
I really hate to say it and I sincerely hope that I am wrong but the next reserve currency will be the yuu yur ueurder oor oh err urr heru yoo yer
Deutsche Mark.
Cough cough, I love the smell of Munich the morning after, Beer should rule the world.
http://tiny.cc/pw32aw
To quote some famous know-it-alls:
gold just sits there
Yah, unlike a fiat, where one can perform magic with sleight of hand. Meanwhile my gold and silver just sit there...thank you very much.
I think more than deposit flight is being masked... Seems eerily quiet given the Greek CDS default situation.
This is great news. Let's see them print or collapse!
Print, bitchez, print.
Let the trickle down effect begin.
Wait, those aren't pennies from heaven...???
no matter --- they'll just rename [as in the 30's & 70's] the 'federal reserve notes', the USSA Bank of Int'l Settlements"
there, fixed it for ya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_dollar
My concern is with the first chart as banks in these countries are essentially relying on the credibility of the central bank (ECB) much like our banks with the FED. What the ECB has demonstrated is that it will subordinate when necessary and reduce collateral standards at will. So why put ALL your funds on deposit with them. I think we might see some banks (both here and there) start putting a percentage into physical gold because as the asset quality of central bank collateral deteriorates so does the liquidity and fungibility of your deposits.
All REALTIME GOLD Charts
also long periods
http://www.homment.com/99-GOLD-Price-REALTIME
As I said before we need a
10 000 000 000 000 € LTRO .
Keep on printing in the free world !
Hair triggers and bank Runs, bitch-zzz.
I can't believe huge bank runs are not already happening.... especially since the entire world just had a front row seat to the government-assisted MF Global confiscation. That sudden wipeout of client money was like watching the first nameless yeoman on Star Trek getting killed off by the monster in the opening act. Who's next?
After reading this article, I feel the same way Indiana Jones did when a 50-ton rock boulder was chasing after him. This stuff is really PSIing me off.
BUBA knows what time it is.
03-12 13:25: Bundesbank vice president Lautenschlaeger said the economic impact of...
Was speaking to someone from Italy the other day. They have been trying to sell a house for over a year for a very good price but no one can buy it because the banks have no money to lend. You can't get a mortgage in Italy anymore.
I'm from Italy and confirm. Banks lend you money only if you already have it.. grazie!
But we have even worst problems: we have 21% IVA (VAT) on silver!
Clearly the ECB is the bad bank.
The ECB will have a stranglehold on the PIIGS as it will own their banking systems. Here's how I think it will play out.
The overarching analogy is boiling frogs in hot water. You can't plop one in a pot of boiling water as it would jump out. Slowly turn up the heat and you will boil the frog.
The ECB owns the TARGET system. Any PIIGS country that wants to burn the ECB will need to give up access to TARGET. For that reason, I suspect the ECB can slowly turn up the heat until the PIIGS are boiled.
If a PIIGS country burns the ECB, they are outside a payment transfer system and their "independent banking system" is Dead On Arrival. Every country would simply turn on the deadbeat PIIGS country that burned the ECB and put the boots to trade with that country, or boots on the ground within that country.
If a critical mass is garnered within the EU to screw the ECB, the Germans et al can take their TARGET system and blend it with the United States and/or Britain. Their contingent liabilities within the ECB would not need to be honored, or they could be paid off for pennies on the dollar. As the remaining PIIGS countries and peripheral EU countries who side with the PIIGS need to develop their own system, it is expected they will try to resurrect TARGET. They would need to honor the paper that they previously sold to the ECB. Trade with those countries would be minimal if they screwed the ECB, and in turn caused harm to developed countries.
The end result is the PIIGS cannot default on ECB debt (and live). All talk about walking away and re-starting their economies is a non-starter. Any debt the ECB buys on their behalf is their debt. The end result is eurobonds mean nothing as there is no collective backstop in the bad times.
Soon the ECB will own all the good collateral that lubricates the banking systems in the PIIGS countries. Once that critical mass is achieved, the Sovereign State becomes a Provincial State reporting to an ECB overlord.
Deposit flight within the EU only accelerates this. If the deposit flight moves to the United States, at some point they will own the ECB via the neo-TARGET system.
The Trillion Euro LTRO in a fairly short time period came with unintended consequences (surprise, surprise):
LTRO Stigma = deposit flight.
TINSTAAFL
So why is not Switzerland getting some (more) of this money?
The meaning of the ECB's balance sheet & the meaning of life...
Why put your money in a bank at zero.... read BIG NEGATIVE to inflation rate of interest so they can loan shark it out/gamble it?
Take it put it under the mattress and buy gold! Far safer... I would rather let robbers steal it who would break into my house... they deserve the money more than the banksters!!!!!
The Italians and Spanards taking their money out of their insolvent
banks only shows they are generally wiser than their American
counterparts.
deposit flow is stalling the recovery.
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