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Moody's: Post-Crisis Asset Quality Follows Different Paths, with Ireland Outperforming Spain

Madrid, December 02, 2016-- The formation of nonperforming loans in Spain and Ireland have followed sharply different paths since the financial crisis, with asset quality recovering more quickly in Ireland despite initially deteriorating more, says Moody's Investors Service in a report published recently. Ireland and Spain's banking systems both suffered during the global financial crisis from home-grown real-estate bubbles and high private-sector leverage that...
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