European banks must brace themselves for rising insolvencies, greater geopolitical risks and upheaval in energy-intensive industries, the eurozone’s new chief banking supervisor has warned. Claudia Buch, who became chair of the European Central Bank’s supervisory arm in January, said in an interview with the Financial Times that banks were “not out of the woods yet” despite emerging in what she said was a “good position” after the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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