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Newsletter: The key economic challenges facing the EU in 2022
13 February 2022
This week we are revisiting the topic with concrete ideas on how the new rules should actually take shape.
Autores: Torres, Raymond
Tapping into know-how and innovation through corporate venturing
2 February 2022
To thrive in an era of rapid technological change, companies have two main options – to innovate from within or to grow externally, through partnerships with innovators. One of the more novel options for external growth is corporate venturing, which blends the financing and expertise from experienced corporates with the fresh ideas and business approaches
of start-ups.
Autores: Astorqui, Ignacio, Gaya, Isabel, Morón, Íñigo
Tags: Corporate Venturing
Zombie firms: An analysis of business sector vulnerability post-COVID-19
Many companies that were not viable before the pandemic have survived thanks to financing and policy measures aimed at keeping money and credit flowing during the crisis. As support measures come to an end, these “zombie firms”, now exposed to increased borrowing costs on the back of upcoming rate hikes, may pose a risk to the global economy and financial sector.
Autores: Aires, Diego, Olmo, Francisco del, Rojas, Fernando
Tags: Zombie firms
Impact of the TLTRO and negative rates on banking margins
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.
Autores: Alberni, Marta, Berges, Ángel, Rodríguez, María
Tags: Banking Margins
Spanish banks and monetary policy in 2022
With the COVID-19 pandemic still threatening economic recovery and inflation running the highest it has this century, monetary authorities in the US and Europe have taken different approaches to normalisation, with US monetary policy likely more hawkish in the shortterm. Within this context, Spanish banks will continue to face acute profitability challenges in 2022, which they will increasingly seek to address through digitalisation and transition to a platform-based model.
Autores: Carbó Valverde, Santiago, Rodríguez Fernández, Francisco
Tags: Banking Sector
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