歐洲大銀行需籌集更多資本

Some of the eurozone’s biggest banks will need to raise more equity because of a clampdown on national exceptions to capital rules, the eurozone’s chief banking supervisor has forecast.

歐洲央行(ECB)單一監管機制(SSM)主席達妮埃萊•努伊(Danièle Nouy)預測，打擊各國資本金規定特例意味着，歐元區一些最大銀行將需要籌集更多股本。

Danièle Nouy told the Financial Times that banks would have to raise more and better quality capital as a result of her new agency’s drive to harmonise more than 150 national variances in capital rules. Fresh legislation from Brussels is likely to also be needed, she added.

努伊告訴英國《金融時報》，歐元區銀行將不得不籌集更多且質量更佳的資本金，因爲她所在的新設機構正計劃協調各國在資本金規定方面的150多項差異。她補充稱，還可能需要歐盟頒佈新的立法。

“Some banks still have to get more capital,” Ms Nouy, a former French central banker appointed last year to head the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism, said in an interview on Tuesday.

努伊周二在接受採訪時表示：“一些銀行將不得不獲得更多資本金。”努伊曾擔任法國央行官員，去年被任命爲歐洲央行單一監管機制主席。

“It’s not so much about how much [capital] it’s about the definition of capital. There are too many, in my view, national options in the definition of capital in Europe and we have to address that. [ . . .] We may have to go to the legislature, to the European Parliament, to ask for more harmonisation in regulation.”

“這在更大程度上與（資本）多少無關，而是在於資本的定義。我認爲，在資本的定義上，歐洲各國有着太多的選擇，我們必須解決這個問題……我們可能必須訴諸立法，提請歐洲議會出臺更加統一的法規。”

Her comments follow capital-raisings by eurozone banks earlier this year. Banco Santander raised 7bn in an overnight share sale in January, which bankers said was in part to cope with increased capital demands from the SSM, although the Spanish bank denied this.

在她發表這番言論之前，今年早些時候，歐元區銀行進行了籌資活動。今年1月，桑坦德銀行(Banco Santander)通過隔夜售股籌資70億歐元；銀行業人士表示，這在一定程度上就是爲了應對單一監管機制提出的增加資本金的要求，儘管這家西班牙銀行否認這點。

Eurozone banks have recently been given updated capital targets by the SSM, which call for them to strengthen their balance sheets based on the results of last year’s ECB stress tests and asset quality review.

單一監管機制最近向歐元區銀行提出了最新的資本金目標，該機構呼籲這些銀行根據去年歐洲央行的壓力測試和資產質量評估結果增強其資產負債表。