{"id":36199,"date":"2008-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aebanca.es\/actualidad\/te-interesa\/aeb-informa\/banks-responsibility-in-the-face-of-the-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:53:11","slug":"banks-responsibility-in-the-face-of-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"blog-aeb","link":"https:\/\/aebanca.es\/en\/actualidad\/te-interesa\/aeb-informa\/banks-responsibility-in-the-face-of-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks\u2019 responsibility in the face of the crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rhetoric is escalating, and some are already warning of the need to adopt coercive measures to ensure that financial institutions provide the liquidity required by the productive sectors; there is even talk of a \u201cnationalisation\u201d if the support received is not converted into credit.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States and in some European countries, banks may have contributed to the development of the financial crisis, although its roots lie in a credit boom.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/aebanca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/08-200904472.pdf\">Read the article by Federico Prades, economic advisor to AEB, published in El Pa\u00eds.<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea has spread widely that Spanish banks are receiving substantial support and that, in an unsupportive manner, they are not passing it on to businesses and households by expanding credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","etiquetas":[351,287,372,638,310],"categorias-blog":[780,781],"class_list":["post-36199","blog-aeb","type-blog-aeb","status-publish","hentry","etiquetas-ahorro","etiquetas-banca","etiquetas-bancos","etiquetas-credito-de-los-bancos","etiquetas-crisis","categorias-blog-articles","categorias-blog-newsarticles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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