ECB publishes supervisory banking statistics for the second quarter of 2019

9 October 2019

• Capital ratios for significant institutions remain stable in the second quarter of 2019, with total capital ratio at 18.01%.
• NPL ratio down to 3.56%, lowest level since time series first published in 2015.
• Liquidity coverage ratio decreases to 146.83%.

Capital adequacy

The capital ratios for the aggregated group of significant institutions, i.e. the banks supervised by the ECB, remained stable in the second quarter of 2019. The Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio stood at 14.34%, the Tier 1 ratio at 15.55% and the total capital ratio at 18.01%. Average CET1 capital ratios at participating Member State level range from 11.89% in Spain to 28.02% in Estonia.

Asset quality

The non-performing loans ratio (NPL ratio) decreased further to 3.56% in the second quarter of 2019, which was the lowest level since supervisory banking statistics were first published in the second quarter of 2015. The lowest average ratio is 0.97% in Luxembourg, and the highest 39.24% in Greece.

Liquidity

The liquidity coverage ratio stood at 146.83% in the second quarter of 2019, down from 149.51% in the first quarter of 2019. The average values range from 99.15% in Greece^[1] to 369.16% in Slovenia.

Factors affecting changes

Supervisory banking statistics are calculated by aggregating data reported by banks that report COREP (capital adequacy information) and FINREP (financial information) at that point in time. Changes in the amounts shown from one quarter to another can be influenced by the following factors:

• changes in the sample of reporting institutions;
• mergers and acquisitions;
• reclassifications (e.g. portfolio shifts where certain assets are reclassified from one particular accounting portfolio to another).

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Notes

• The complete set of Supervisory banking statistics with additional quantitative risk indicators is available on the ECB’s banking supervision website.