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Lower bank capital requirements won’t improve profitability, ECB official says

By Fanny Roux ( February 10, 2026, 07:00 GMT | Comment) -- Resilience, backed up by supervision, is the key to the European banking sector’s competitiveness, Patrick Montagner, a member of the European Central Bank supervisory board, has told MLex, hitting back against banks' argument that lower capital buffers would allow them to lend more. Lowering the minimum levels of capital European banks are required to hold to absorb losses and prevent insolvency won't improve competitiveness, Patrick Montagner, a member of the European Central Bank supervisory board has told MLex....

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