Germany says no debt relief being prepared for Greece – Reuters

* Handelsblatt said measures under consideration * EU source says document it cites started as ESM paper (Recasts with German finance ministry statement) May 4 No debt relief measures are being readied for Greece, Germany’s Finance Ministry said on Thursday after the Handelsblatt business daily reported measures were under consideration. The implementation of reforms that…

Ukraine’s Banking Sector Reconstruction Brings Asset Sales and Opportunities in Equal Measure – Emerging Europe (registration)

Valeria Gontareva, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), might be leaving office, but is often commended for the banking sector restructuring and consolidation that has been long-awaited by foreign investors. We are still not at the end of the road, but compared to where we were a few years ago, when we had…

Greece’s lenders ready debt relief options for discussion – report – Yahoo Finance

BERLIN (Reuters) – Greece’s international lenders are preparing possible debt relief measures for Athens for discussion by euro zone finance ministers, the German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Thursday. The European Commission, the ESM euro zone rescue fund, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)have prepared various debt measures in a document…