Pint-sized market<\/p>\n
The European market is pint-sized compared with others globally: It shrank from being worth around \u20ac2 trillion at its precrisis peak to \u20ac1.2 trillion now. The U.S. market has grown from being worth $11.3 trillion (\u20ac9.76 trillion) in 2008 to $13.7 trillion (\u20ac11.83 trillion) now \u2014 leading senior officials at the Commission to call securitization<\/a> an \u201cunderexploited tool in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n Buzzy political reports from figures like former Italian prime ministers Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi<\/a> on how to boost the bloc\u2019s ailing economy called for a revival of securitization in the EU to boost bank lending to businesses. The push on securitization forms part of the Commission\u2019s wider plan to stimulate an investment culture<\/a> in the bloc and turn around its sputtering economic growth.<\/p>\n Governments including in France and Germany have lobbied heavily<\/a> to see the rules loosened as this would boost their banking sectors, while finance ministers and heads of government all called on<\/a> the Commission to revive the market \u2014 making it a political priority<\/a> for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen when she was reelected last year.<\/p>\n Banks will be thrilled to see a revival of the practice in Europe \u2014 not least because holding less capital against the risk of securitizations will give them more cash to play with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the pre-2008 lending boom, American banks sold their dodgiest “subprime” loans to investors around the world. When…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[3427,331,51,6659,2766,2825,53958,1700,474,36,1824,1195,806,1197,2441,9899,2444,54158,413,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-191124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-banking","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-due-diligence","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-finance","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-growth","20":"tag-industry","21":"tag-investment","22":"tag-markets","23":"tag-ngos","24":"tag-regulatory","25":"tag-securitization","26":"tag-space","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13043061-1024x683.jpg\")
Buzzy political reports from figures like former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi on how to boost the bloc\u2019s ailing economy called for a revival of securitization in the EU to boost bank lending to businesses. | Paulo Novais\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n