Debt Crisis: Spain to Request Bailout on Monday

Spain will formally request a bailout for its crisis ridden banks on Monday, finance minister Luis De Guindos said.

by Angela Monaghan, Economics Correspondent
Telegraph.co.uk

An independent audit of Spain’s banks concluded that a maximum of €62bn (£50bn) of capital would be required, but ratings agency Fitch yesterday criticised the report.

Fitch said the estimate was based on the idea that banks would only need a 6pc core tier one capital ratio – a key measure of a bank’s financial strength – to regain market confidence.

Fitch however, which believes Spain’s banks could need up to €100bn of capital on a worst case scenario, said a higher level of capital reserves would be needed otherwise “the market is unlikely to resume large-scale lending to banks after such widespread losses”.

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