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ECB Policies Could Backfire As Commerzbank Mulls Hoarding Cash

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Mark Melin
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Commerzbank contemplates hoarding cash in its vaults rather than put it into the hands of the ECB and negative interest rates

As fund managers met in the heart of Germany and expressed concern that market bending central bank experimentation with negative interest rates and aggressive quantitative easing could create another financial crisis, news comes that one of Germany’s largest banks, Commerzbank, is joining the resistance movement.

Top Commerzbank contemplates rejecting negative rates in conversations with German government officials to hoard cash

Frankfurt-based Commerzbank is considering storing billions of euros in its vaults rather than place it in a negative interest rate generating accounts at the European Central Bank, Reuters is exclusively reporting.

The move by the $532 billion euro bank, which...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.