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Industry concerned over negative interest rates in EU, Japan, banking official says

( April 22, 2016, 20:25 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Publicly expressed views from the financial industry suggest that negative interest rate policies in Europe and Japan may not be incentivizing firms to provide more credit or positively influencing consumption demand as central banks had hoped, said Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, deputy general manager at the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements. Negative interest rate policies "might have actually prompted more worries about financial stability, tilting market sentiment towards a risk-off mindset resulting from [the policies'] possible undesirable consequences for the profitability of banks, pension funds and insurance companies," he said.Speech follows in full....

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