Press conference ieri di Draghi
Mi ha fatto godere un passaggio della conferenza stampa di Draghi, quando, sul finire, ha bastonato, senza menzionarli, lo spocchioso CEO di Deutsche Bank e, forse, anche quello di ING.
Ecco qui, riferito dal FT, il contenuto del passaggio:
February 9, 2012 7:04 pm
Draghi attacks bankers over ECB fears
By James Wilson in Frankfurt
Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, has responded angrily to Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, accusing bankers of “statements of virility” for saying they fear a stigma from accepting long-term ECB loans.
In a push to encourage banks to use the central bank’s three-year unlimited liquidity, Mr Draghi mocked what he said was the feeling among some bankers that it would be “undignified for a serious bank” to draw on the funds. “The facilities are there to be used. There is no stigma whatsoever,” he said on Thursday.
More than 500 banks borrowed €489bn in three-year loans from the ECB in December. Mr Ackermann, who had previously praised the ECB’s provision of loans as a “very important and very intelligent move”, last week said Deutsche had not taken up the offer because his bank, Germany’s largest, preferred to be seen as independent of any government support.
Deutsche might not participate in a second ECB offer of unlimited loans this month, Mr Ackermann said. Other banks have made less public statements of concerns over a stigma attached to the support.
“The very same banks that make these statements access funds of different kinds but [they are] still ‘government facilities’ – the euro-dollar credit swap facility, for example,” said Mr Draghi, who did not mention Mr Ackermann or Deutsche Bank.
Mr Draghi said an un-named bank that had indicated there would be a stigma in using loans had, in fact, used them in December. “So some of these virility statements, manhood statements, often are not correct,” Mr Draghi said. “Much better-rated banks fully accessed these facilities. They saw no stigma. It is a business decision that should be presented as such.”
The loans have been central to the efforts made by Mr Draghi, who became ECB president a little over three months ago, to avoid a eurozone credit crunch by providing banks with unlimited refinancing.
Marco Valli, an analyst at UniCredit, said the ECB clearly wanted to encourage banks to take up the three-year refinancing and had delivered a “public slamming” of banks that had reservations. “Draghi went out of his way making clear that there is no stigma attached,” Mr Valli wrote.
Mr Draghi also suggested banks that “happened to be located” in fiscally strong eurozone countries should “give credit to their governments” for avoiding the worst sovereign debt problems.
