Sisällysluettelo : Bank of Finland. Financial market report

Abstract

1 Financial intermediation 4 1.1 Households' net financial assets increased in 2006 despite growing indebtedness 4 1.2 Narrowing of euro area banks' margin on loans came to a halt in 2006 6 1.3 Proportion of indebted households highest at the high income levels 7 2 Banks and insurance corporations 9 2.1 Rapid growth in net interest income 9 2.2 Will the period of small loan losses continue? 11 3 Securities markets 13 3.1 Listed exchanges have been good investment objects 13 3.2 Growth of equity funds comes to a halt 15 3.3 Can Project Turquoise challenge the securities exchanges? 16 3.4 Eurosystem launches consultation on collateral management will CCBM2 be implemented in parallel with T2S? 17 4 Infrastructure 19 4.1 National SEPA migration plan 19 4.2 Popularity of card payments continues to grow 20 5 Key corporate arrangements and events in the financial sector 23