Capital Markets Today

Welcome to Capital Markets Today and the DDC Financials’ series of European Investment Forum podcasts.  Capital Markets Today listeners can use code NSCM30 for a 30% discount to the European Investment Summit being held in Miami USA on March 8 & 9th 2017 The global financial crisis decimated Spain’s real estate development market and increased the NPL ratio from 1 per cent pre-crisis to more than 10 per cent in 2012. This translated into Spanish banks holding more than €500 billion of distressed assets at the peak of the crisis. Thanks to a comprehensive restructuring of the Spanish financial sector, which included the creation of the Spanish “bad bank” Sareb, which absorbed more than €50 billion of distressed assets, the Spanish banks have been able to reduce the total volume of distressed assets to approximately €215 billion, of which approximately €85 billion are real estate owned properties (REOs). This reduction in the volume of distressed assets has been achieved through sales of portfolios of distr