20122013 Cypriot financial crisis

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The 20122013 Cypriot financial crisis is a major economic crisis in the Republic of Cyprus that involves the exposure of Cypriot banks to the Greek Debt Crisis, the downgrading of the Cypriot economy to junk status by international rating agencies, the consequential inability to refund its state expenses from the international markets[1][2] and the reluctance of the government to restructure the troubled Cypriot financial sector.[3] On 25 March 2013, a 10 billion bailout was announced in return for Cyprus agreeing to close its second largest bank, the Cyprus Popular Bank (also known as Laiki Bank), levying all uninsured deposits there, and possibly around 40% of uninsured deposits in the Bank of Cyprus (the Island's largest commercial bank), many held by wealthy citizens of other countries, significantly from Russia, who use Cyprus as a tax haven.[4][5] All insured deposits of 100,000 Euros or less will not be affected.[6][7]

Contents
1 Context 2 Response 2.1 Emergency loan (2012) 2.2 Credit rating downgrade to 'junk' 2.3 Request for EU intervention and agreement 2.4 Eurozone/IMF deal 3 Criticism 4 Local reaction 5 Analysis 6 See also 7 References

Context
The United States' subprime mortgage crisis in 2007-2008 led to a domino effect of negative consequences in the global economy including the European Union. The Cypriot economy went into a deep recession in 2009, as the economy shrank by 1.67%,[8] with large falls specifically in tourism and shipping activity[9] which caused rising unemployment.[10] Economic growth between 2010 and 2012 was weak and failed to reach its pre-2009 levels.[8] Commercial property values declined by approximately 30%.[11] Non-Performing Loans, which rose to a reported 6.1% in 2011,[12] increased pressure on the banking system. With a small population and modest economy, Cyprus had a large off-shore banking industry. Compared to a nominal GDP of 19.5bn ($24bn)[13] the banks had amassed 22 billion of Greek private sector debt with bank deposits $120bn, including $60bn from Russia business corporations.[14] Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev owned a 10% shareholding of Bank of Cyprus.[14][15][16]

With rising unemployment and associated benefits the size of state debt increased. The banks were then exposed to a haircut of upwards of 50% in 2011 during the Greek government-debt crisis,[17][18] leading to fears of a collapse of the Cypriot banks. The Cypriot state, unable to raise liquidity from the markets to support its financial sector, requested a bailout from the European Union.[9] Progress on fiscal and structural reforms was slow and following a serious explosion at a naval base in July 2011 the major credit rating agencies downgraded the country's rating in September. Yields on its long-term bonds rose above 12% and there was concern that the country would be unable to stabilize its banks.

Response
Emergency loan (2012)
Since January 2012, Cyprus has been relying on a 2.5bn (US$3.236 billion) emergency loan from Russia to cover its budget deficit and re-finance maturing debt. The loan has an interest rate of 4.5%, with no amortization/repayment until its maturity ends after 4.5 years, and no penalty if repayment at that point of time will be delayed, in the event of a persisting lack of access for Cyprus to cover its financial needs through the normal funding markets.[19][20] The received loan was expected to cover all refinancing of maturing government debt and the amount needed for the governments continued budget deficits, until the first quarter of 2013. But did not include any funds for recapitalization of the Cypriot financial sector. Looking further ahead, it was generally expected Cyprus would need to apply for an additional bailout loan.[20]

Credit rating downgrade to 'junk'

Cyprus's debt percentage compared to Eurozone average since 1999

On 13 March 2012, Moody's slashed Cyprus's credit rating to Junk status, warning that the Cyprus government would have to inject more fresh capital into its banks to cover losses incurred through Greece's debt swap. On 25 June 2012, the day when Fitch downgraded bonds issued by Cyprus to BB+, which disqualified them from being accepted as collateral by the European Central Bank, the Cypriot government requested a bailout from the European Financial Stability Facility or the European Stability Mechanism.[16]

Request for EU intervention and agreement

The Cypriot Government was reported requesting a bailout from the European Financial Stability Facility or the European Stability Mechanism on 25 June 2012, citing difficulties in supporting its banking sector from the exposure to the Greek debt.[21] Representatives of the Troika (the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank) arrived to the island in July to investigate the country's financial

problems, and submitted the terms of the bailout to the Cypriot government on 25 July.[22] The Cypriot government expressed disagreement over the terms, and continued negotiation with Troika representatives concerning possible alterations to them throughout the following months.[23][24] On 20 November, the government handed its counter-proposals to the Troika on the terms of the bailout,[25] with negotiations continuing. On 30 November it was reported that Troika and the Cypriot Government had agreed on the bailout terms with only the amount of money required for the bailout remaining to be agreed upon.[26] By contrast, the IMF referred only to "good progress towards an agreement".[27] The preliminary agreement terms were made public on 30 November.[28] The austerity measures included cuts in civil service salaries, social benefits, allowances and pensions and increases in VAT, tobacco, alcohol and fuel taxes, taxes on lottery winnings, property, and higher public health care charges.[29]

Eurozone/IMF deal
On 16 March 2013, the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed a 10 billion deal with Cyprus,[30] making it the fifth countryafter Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spainto receive money from the EU-IMF. As part of the deal, a one-off bank deposit levy of 6.7% for deposits up to 100,000 and 9.9% for higher deposits, was announced on all domestic bank accounts. Savers were due to be compensated with shares in their banks.[31] Measures were put in place to prevent withdrawal or transfer of moneys representing the prescribed levy.[32] The deal required the approval of the Cypriot parliament, which was due to debate it on 18 March. According to President Nicos Anastasiades, failure to ratify the measures would lead to a "disorderly bankruptcy" of the country.[31] The Russian government "blasted Cyprus's bank levy, piling more pressure on [capital city] Nicosia" ahead of the parliament's vote on the bailout. Russia had not decided at the time whether to extend its existing loan to Cyprus.[33] With the background of large demonstrations outside the House of Representatives in Nicosia by Cypriot people protesting the bank deposit levy,[34] the deal was rejected by the Cypriot parliament on 19 March 2013 with 36 votes against, 19 abstentions and one not present for the vote.[35] On 22 March, the Cyprus legislature approved a plan to restructure the Cyprus Popular Bank, its second largest bank also known as Laiki Bank, creating in the process a so-called "bad bank."[36] On 25 March, Cyprus President Anastasiades, Eurozone finance ministers, and IMF officials announced a new plan to preserve all insured deposits of 100,000 Euros or less without a levy, but shut down Laiki Bank, levying all uninsured deposits there, and levying 40% of uninsured deposits in Bank of Cyprus, held mostly by wealthy Russians and Russian Multinational corporations who use Cyprus as an offshore bank and safe tax haven. The revised agreement, expected to raise 4.2 billion Euros in return for a 10 billion bailout, does not require any further approval of the Cypriot parliament, as the legal framework for the implied solutions for Laiki Bank and Bank of Cyprus has already been accounted for in the bill passed by the parliament last week.[6][7] When the final agreement was settled on 25 March, the idea of imposing any sort of deposit levy was dropped, as it was instead now possible to reach a mutual agreement with the Cypriot authorities accepting a direct closure of the most troubled Laiki Bank (with remaining good assets and deposits below 100,000 being saved and transferred to Bank of Cyprus (BoC), while shareholder capital would be written off, and the uninsured deposits above 100,000 - along with other creditor claims - would be lost to the degree being decided by how much the receivership subsequently can recover from liquidation of the remaining bad assets), while as an extra safety measure, uninsured deposits above 100,000 in BoC will also remain frozen until a recapitalisation

has been implemented (with a possible imposed haircut if this is later deemed needed to reach the requirement for a 9% tier 1 capital ratio). The targeted closure of Laiki and recapitalisation plan for BoC helped significantly to reduce the needed loan amount for the overall bailout package, so that 10bn was still sufficient without need for imposing a general levy on bank deposits. Final conditions for activation of the Cypriot bailout package will be outlined by the Troika's MoU agreement in April 2013, and will include:[37]

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Recapitalisation of the entire financial sector while accepting a closure of the Laiki bank, Implementation of the anti-money laundering framework in Cypriot financial institutions, Fiscal consolidation to help bring down the Cypriot governmental budget deficit, Structural reforms to restore competitiveness and macroeconomic imbalances, Privatization programme.

According to IMF, the Cypriot debt-to-GDP ratio is on this background now forecasted only to reach 100% in 2020, and thus remain within sustainable territory.[38] Given the proposed and actual element of taking deposits as part of the agreement, it was sometimes referred to as a "bail-in" rather than a bailout.[39]

Criticism
Irish MEP Nessa Childers, daughter of the country's former President Erskine H. Childers, painted a bleak picture. She described the efforts of the EU-IMF as an "incompetent mess" and said the Eurozone was more destabilised as a result.[40] In its Schumpeter Blog The Economist called The Cyprus bail-out:Unfair, short-sighted and selfdefeating.[41] Specifically the article says "The Cypriot deal has no coherence in the larger context. The euro crisis has been in abeyance for a few months, thanks largely to the readiness of the European Central Bank to intervene to help struggling countries. The ECBs price for helping countries is to insist they go into a bail-out programme. The political price of going into a programme has just gone up, so the ECBs safety net looks a little thinner. The bail-out appears to move Europe further away from the institutional reforms that are needed to resolve the crisis once and for all. Rather than using the European Stability Mechanism to recapitalise banks, and thereby weaken the link between banks and their governments, the euro zone continues to equate bank bail-outs with sovereign bail-outs. As for debt mutualisation, after imposing losses on local depositors, the price of support from the rest of Europe is arguably costlier now than it ever has been." Dr. Jeffrey Stacey writes on Germany's Der Spiegel: 'Abject Error': How the Cyprus Deal Hurts EU Strategic Interests[42] In strategic terms the EU hurt not only Cyprus and itself, but also the interests of the US and other allies in the West. Europe pushed Cyprus directly into the arms of the Russian government. Not only

did this hurt the prospects for its own deal, but it gave leverage to Moscow in the process. More important still, however, by forcing Anastasiades between the rock of a forced bank levy and the hard place of seeking assistance from Moscow, the EU seriously undermined him domestically precisely when the West was about to reap the benefits at long last of a fairly pro-Western Cypriot president, crucially necessary to overcome sour relations with Turkey that continue to undermine NATO relations, EU relations, NATO-EU relations, and US relations with both. To top it all off, a peace deal along the lines of the Annan Plan for a final resolution of the 40 year-old Cypriot divide -- the prospects for which had improved with the election of Anastasiades -- has seen its prospects diminished.

Local reaction
Cyprus has seen a number of reactions and responses towards the austerity measures of the bailout plan. On 8 November 2012, ERAS (Committee for a Radical Leftist Rally, ) organised the first protest against austerity and the Troika negotiations that were still taking place.[43] Protesters were gathered outside the House of Representatives holding banners and shouting slogans against austerity. Leaflets with alternative proposals for the economy were distributed in the protest, with proposals including the nationalization of banking, the reduction of the army and the freezing of the army budget, and the increase of the corporate tax. Members of the New Internationalist Left (NEDA) also participated in the protest.[44]

Members of ERAS outside of the House of Representatives in Nicosia

On 14 November the New Internationalist Left organised an antiausterity protest outside the Ministry of Finance in Nicosia together with the Alliance Against the Memorandum. In the protest NEDA gave out leaflets, which expressed the view that "the EU is trying to burden the workers with the debts from the collapse of the bankers" and that "if this happens, the Cypriot economy and the future of the new generations will then be mortgaged to local and foreign profiteers and usurious bankers".[45] Contract teachers protested outside the House of Representatives on 29 November against austerity measures that would leave 992 of them without a job next year. The teachers stormed the building and bypassed the policemen, entering the parliament. The teachers shouted against the banks and poverty.[46] A protest by investors was staged on the morning of 11 December outside the House of Representatives, with protesters again storming parliament and bypassing the police. The storming of the parliament led to the interruption of the discussions of the parliamentary committee of customs. The protesters were asked to leave so that the committee could continue its work, and the protesters left half an hour later.[47] A number of protests took place on 12 December. Members of large families protested outside the House of Representatives against cuts in the benefits given by the state to support large families. Protesters threw eggs and stones at the main entrance of the parliament, and a number of protesters tried to enter the building, but were blocked by the police force that arrived to handle the protest. It was reported that a woman fainted during the incidents. The protesters shouted for the MPs to come out but no response was given.[48]

The protesters were joined by members of KISOA (Cypriot Confederation of Organisations of the Disabled, ), who marched from the Ministry of Finance to the House of Representatives to protest against cuts in benefits for people with disabilities.[49] Later in the day members of public school teachers' trade unions protested outside the Ministry of Finance against the cuts in education spending which could result in the firing of teachers.[50] The unions staged another protest the next day near the House of Representatives.[51] Haravgi reported that just before bank deposits were blocked a number of companies belonging to family of president Nikos Anastasiadis have transferred over $21m outside of Cyprus.[52] Anastasiadis has denied these allegations.[53] Also a number of loans issued to members of political parties or public administration officers were fully or partially written off.[54]

Analysis
A team of 16 Cypriot economists, organized by the citizens group Eleutheria ("Freedom"),[55] attributed the crisis to sliding competitiveness, increasing public and private debt, exacerbated by the banking crisis.[56]

See also
Bank of Cyprus Laiki Bank

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