Madrid plans to inject Bankia with debt

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Series Details 5.9.12
Publication Date 05/09/2012
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Article reported that the Spanish government was planning in September 2012 to provide €4.5bn of stopgap rescue money to Bankia, the nationalised bank, by injecting it with Spanish government debt, in a move likely to reignite debate over how states could the European Central Bank to recapitalise troubled lenders.

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