The European Central Bank continues to normalise its monetary policy. On Thursday 24 March, it announced that it would phase out major easing of the requirements for collateral that banks provide in exchange for liquidity by March 2024.
These easing measures were put in place in April 2020 at the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic to allow the banking sector to continue lending to economic operators (see EUROPE B12464A28 and B12473A17).
From 8 July this year, the reduction applied by the...