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EU approves loan guarantees for German lender
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December 22, 2009, Tuesday
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EUROPEAN Union regulators yesterday gave temporary approval for the German government to give 18 billion euros (US$27.7 billion) in loan guarantees to German lender Hypo Real Estate to help it cover urgent liquidity needs.
The European Commission last month extended an investigation into the government takeover of the bank to examine whether planned cutbacks will compensate for the competitive advantage it got from large state subsidies.
It has warned that Germany may need to rethink a target to finance half of HRE's restructuring from the bank's own coffers or non-governmental sources because private sources of funding had dried up.
In the meantime, regulators said the government's Financial Market Stabilization Fund, or SoFFin, could go ahead and grant the bank two guarantees of 8 billion euros and 10 billion euros as "an appropriate means to remedy a serious disturbance in the German economy."
The EU's executive must approve government bailouts of banks that neared collapse during the financial crisis last year. It has ordered banks such as Commerzbank, ING and others to shed units to compensate for the unfair advantage over rivals that they received from state help.
Hypo Real Estate is the most prominent German victim of the financial crisis. It ran into trouble in September 2009 after its Dublin-based unit Depfa Bank Plc failed to find short-term funding.
Since then, the German government has shored it up with loan guarantees covering billions of euros. In November, it gave the bank an extra capital injection of 3 billion euros, just weeks after it took full control of the lender.
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