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Dutch mortgage lending may need tightening: ECB

Published February 15, 2018 Updated February 15, 2018 01:45pm

"There might be a need for more active macroprudential policy," Sabine Lautenchslaeger, the ECB board member in charge of bank oversight, told a conference in Amsterdam. "And by this I mean a tightening of existing borrower-based measures."

She added a high ratio between the value of mortgage and that of the property "poses a risk to financial stability".

 

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