Ecofin will discuss different options to reduce the exposure of banks

The EU finance ministers will discuss in the summit next week five different options to reduce the exposure of banks to sovereign debt.

According to Reuters from official EU sources, noting that on the table there will be cases such as the imposition of ceilings or financial disincentives to the holding of government bonds, currently considered as risk-free asset and therefore exempt from such imposed limits on debt of companies or families.

One option is to limit the exposure of banks to a single sovereign issuer, said one of the sources. Another is to introduce a weighting nothing for the risk on the sovereign, but also on the table the proposal to impose a combination of the two elements.