Asset and liability management

Turkey's external assets amounted to $248.9 billion at the end of February, up 3.4% from 2020, the Turkish Central Bank announced on April 19. 

The country's liabilities against non-residents during the same period rose 1.4% to $636 billion.

Turkey's external assets reached $246.3 billion as of this January, a decline of 2.3% from the end of last year, the Turkish Central Bank data showed on March 18. 

Its liabilities against non-residents fell 0.9% to $638.7 billion during the same period.

Turkey's Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) has announced on Tuesday that it will repeal the calculation of the Asset Ratio (AR), as of end of 2020 as part of the normalization steps.

Borsa Istanbul's banking index gained 3% while the U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate fell below 7.85 from 7.96 following the move.

Turkey's external assets hit $251.4 billion as of this February, inching down 0.2 percent from the end of 2019, the Central Bank announced April 20.

The country's liabilities against non-residents also fell 3.3 percent to hit $584.2 billion during the same period.

Japonica Partners head Paul Kazarian has revealed his investment firm is looking into opportunities in the Greek market and added that state assets require improved management to become more attractive to investors.

The European Central Bank lowered the ceiling on emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) Greek banks draw from the domestic central bank by 100 million euros to 4.9 billion euros ($5.60 billion), the Bank of Greece said on Thursday.

The European Central Bank lowered the ceiling on emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) Greek banks draw from the domestic central bank by 1.9 billion euros to 8.4 billion euros, the Bank of Greece said on Thursday.

The European Central Bank lowered the ceiling on emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) Greek banks draw from the domestic central bank by 1.3 billion euros to 10.9 billion euros, the Bank of Greece said on Thursday.

The European Central Bank lowered the ceiling on emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) Greek banks draw from the domestic central bank by 1.9 billion euros to 14.7 billion euros, the Bank of Greece said on Thursday.

The Turkish banking sector will remain resilient against global risks since it has a strong capital base, stable asset quality and adequate level of liquid assets, the Central Bank said on Nov. 30 in its latest financial stability report.