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Hungary bank plan unlikely to trigger revival in bank lending

The “collateralised credit facility” unveiled by the National Bank of Hungary today may help to ease the maturity mismatch between banks’ assets and liabilities but it will do nothing to address the fundamental problem holding back credit growth in Hungary – namely an overwhelming foreign currency debt burden.

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