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Re:Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage by collyw on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:40AM (#20696685)
>That means the bank is absorbing a real loss of 1.5%/year on the deal.

(As I understand it) the Eurobor rate is negative (the rate that the central bank lends to the other banks), so its unlikely that the bank are taking the hit directly.

Re:Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage by zajio1am on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:22PM (#20697094)
Euribor is not a rate that central bank lends to other banks, it is a rate commercial banks lend between themselves.

ECB has its own rates (e.g. deposit facility, marginal lending facility for overnight deposits and loans).

Re:Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage by martin_bech on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:43PM (#20697292)
As I mentioned somewhere else, these loans, are based 100% on bonds, sold on the open market, so the issuer is not loosing money. The issuer “realkredit selskab” just gets a fee.

Who buys the bonds, could be anyone.. banks, pensionfunds, people who need to store money, in an “insured” way.