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German banks stuffing vaults with paper notes

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They probably can point to the paper notes as Tier1/Tier1-Quality assets in order to comply with regulations...  and avoid the negative rate payable on Reserve Assets instead... just have to pay for safe storage of the notes...German banks are stuffing vaults with money to help offset the mounting cost of negative interest rates, and some of them are running out of space https://t.co/wyJHoVdV95— Bloomberg Markets (@markets) January 31, 2020

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They probably can point to the paper notes as Tier1/Tier1-Quality assets in order to comply with regulations...  and avoid the negative rate payable on Reserve Assets instead... just have to pay for safe storage of the notes...

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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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