Fitch: Basel Foreclosure Proposal May Push EU Insolvency Reform – Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervisions proposal that only mortgages backed by easily realisable collateral should benefit from low risk-weightings might encourage insolvency regime reform in the EU, says Fitch Ratings. Mortgage lending represented 22% of total non-defaulted exposures extended by a large sample of EU banks. Timelines for real-estate foreclosure and liquidation vary significantly…