Banks stopped easing credit standards for enterprises in the three months to September and a narrow majority of them expects to tighten them in the current quarter, the ECB's lending survey showed.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is scrapping plans to force euro zone banks to report on its database any bad loan worth as little as 100 euros after a backlash from lenders, it said on May 20
The European Central Bank also found that all of the euro zone's banks have not been strict enough in identifying toxic assets, finding an additional 136 billion euros in non-performing loans.
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European leaders agreed on Friday to create a single supervisory body for euro zone banks and to allow them to be recapitalized directly by the currency area's rescue fund without adding to government debt.
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US technology company Apple is now worth as much as the 32 biggest euro zone banks.