Posted by admin | Posted on 18-05-2012
Category : Business, Stocks
Tags: bank, bbva, currency, european, ing, rbs, requirements, selling, shore, strongly, subsidiaries
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Four large European bank U.S. subsidiaries could be on the block following downgrades of 16 Spanish banks by Moody’s Investor Service.
The downgraded Euro holding companies would not be “forced sellers,” since they all have excess capital, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Erika Penala, who said in a report on Tuesday that the European holding companies “would only part with their US franchises on attractive terms.”
While it would be a pretty obvious play for European holding companies to shore up their capital by selling their strongly capitalized U.S. subsidiaries, Basel III rules may require banks “to fulfill liquidity requirements in a currency by currency basis, which would put a premium on U.S. denominated deposits for European banks,” Penala said. …
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