Turkish policymakers have taken steps to support local banks today, but concerns have continued to mount about the health of the sector. Banks appear to hedge all their on-balance sheet FX mismatches so they’re not directly exposed to the lira’s collapse. The bigger risk, instead, seems to be that currency weakness, rising borrowing costs and the ensuing recession causes non-performing loans to jump.
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