Last month Joaquín Almunia, the EU’s commissioner for economic affairs, highlighted foreign-currency mortgages as the sort of danger that the newly formed European Systemic Risk Board would be looking for. More succinct is the verdict of a senior official at Austria’s financial regulator: “We don’t want millions of people acting like little hedge funds.”
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Last month Joaquín Almunia, the EU’s commissioner for economic affairs, highlighted foreign-currency mortgages as the sort of danger that the newly formed European Systemic Risk Board would be looking for. More succinct is the verdict of a senior official at Austria’s financial regulator: “We don’t want millions of people acting like little hedge funds.”
A relevant piece on the foreign currency mortgages debate in Iceland.