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Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by SilasX on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:43PM (#20760212)
Not if it's a bank that specifically caters to this crowd and doesn't take any of the normal risks associated with lending.
Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by kgwgk on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:52PM (#20760313)
They would have two options:

A) keep the euro notes in their vault, which only works if you deposit paper bills in the first place

B) keep electronic deposits in the ECB and pay interests to do so

In either case if they give back the money to the clients when they ask for it how do you expect them to cover their operating costs (plus the interest they are charged by the central bank in case b)?

Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by beamatronic on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:39PM (#20760842)
You mean like... a German bank? They will happily do what you ask. For a small fee. In the form of a negative interest rate.
Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by dmoy on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:26PM (#20761338)
And your deposit won't be insured past like 100k euro.
Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by rags2riches on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:00PM (#20760401)
This imaginary bank would still have costs. What would be their income?
Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by mdemare on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:24PM (#20760658)
Excellent question. There is a company, The Narrow Bank, that has the same idea, but they didn’t get a banking license from the Fed. Matt Levine, whose newsletter you should clearly start reading, has the details: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-06/fed-re...
Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by SilasX on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:18AM (#20768320)
This is the first responsive answer I've gotten to that question.