Impact of the TLTRO and negative rates on banking margins
Fecha: enero 2022
Marta Alberni, Ángel Berges, María Rodríguez
Banking Margins
SEFO, Spanish and International Economic & Financial Outlook, V. 11 N.º 1 (January 2022)
Spanish and European banks’ net interest margins (NIM) are proving highly volatile due to the “volume effect” on credit, as well as the difficulties in layering a negative rates component into funding costs. Going forward, the considerable sensitivity of banks’ NIM could increase in 2022, depending on the level of compliance with TLTRO eligibility benchmarks.