Friday, June 1, 2012

Deposit Insurance In Spain Is Meaningless

If you want to know why 100 billion euros have fled Spain in the first quarter of this year, here's why:

In Spain there are about 800 billion euros of insured deposits, but the deposit insurance fund has assets of just 7.9 billion euros, and 5.3 billion has already been committed to troubled savings bank Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo (CAM), Barclays analysts estimated.