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Great margin for growth in exports

 While sentiment constantly improves, local enterprises say they face obstacles to becoming more extrovert

Competitiveness in small and medium-sized enterprises needs to become stronger, the National Bank of Greece argued in its biannual report on SMEs on Monday, though it also confirmed the steady improvement of business sentiment in the country.

EU clears National Bank of Greece's restructuring plan

The European Commission has approved National Bank of Greece's (NBG) restructuring plan, which includes reducing NBG's stake in Turkey's Finansbank .

NBG was one of Greece's big four banks that were rescued with state aid during the country's debt crisis. The Commission then reviewed NBG's business plan to see if it was in line with EU state aid rules.

National to absorb Ethniki Kefalaiou

 NBG looks set to boost its assets by 400 mln euros and its capital adequacy ratio by 70 basis points

By Yiannis Papadoyiannis

National Bank of Greece is proceeding with the absorption of its corporate management subsidiary Ethniki Kefalaiou, as Kathimerini understands that the decision has already been approved at all corporate levels and will be immediately enforced.

Fitch upgrades three Greek banks' state-guaranteed debt to 'B'

Fitch Ratings has upgraded the state-guaranteed long-term senior debt rating of National Bank of Greece (NBG, B-/Stable), Alpha Bank (Alpha, B-/Stable) and Eurobank Ergasias (Eurobank, B-/Stable) to 'B' from 'B-'.

The rating actions follow the upgrade of Greece's sovereign Long-Term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR). [Reuters]

Alpha Bank opens books on new three-year senior bond

Alpha Bank is set to offer the lowest new issue yield from a Greek bank since the country's institutions returned to the capital markets on Thursday, helping further cement the recovery story of one of the eurozone's most troubled jurisdictions.

The Caa1/CCC/B- rated bank is marketing the three-year bond at 3.75 percent area via Citigroup, HSBC, JP Morgan and Mediobanca.

Moody’s: NBG bond amendment has no impact on rating

Moody’s announced on Friday there is no rating impact on National Bank of Greece’s covered bonds following an amendment to the bond transaction documents.

The amendment will allow bondholders of any series to sell a pro rata share of the cover pool after the issuer has defaulted or following an extension of the relevant series.

Police cordon off street in Kolonaki after National Bank bomb threat

Police cordoned off Skoufa Street in the central Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki oN Friday morning after an anonymous caller warned that a bomb had been planted outside a National Bank of Greece branch there.

Police and bomb disposal experts rushed to the scene after to warning calls were made to Ethnos and Eleftherotypia newspapers shortly before 10 a.m.

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