Re:Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage
by zajio1am on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:22PM
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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
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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.
(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.