Yannis Stournaras

Greek lenders are well capitalized and maintain buffers that could absorb additional credit losses, Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras said on Friday at a conference organized by the central bank to mark its 90th anniversary.

The Greek banking sector remains under pressure due to the low quality of its assets due to the high amount of nonperforming exposures (NPEs), Moody's said in a report released on Wednesday, just after Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras had expressed confidence in the local banking system.

A statement of support by Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras got Greek stocks off to a positive start on Wednesday, but a Moody's report stressing how much of a challenge bad loans pose to Greek banks soured the mood again, leading the benchmark back into the red at the close.

A drop in Greek bank shares was caused by external factors, not the health of the country's banks, the governor of the Bank of Greece said on Wednesday.

Greek banking stocks have lost more than 40 percent so far this year, and the selling pressure grew in recent days. Analysts blamed the European Union's conflict with Italy over its proposed budget.

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank has named Greek central bank chief Yannis Stournaras as a member of the council's audit committee, replacing Erkki Liikanen, the Bank of Greece said on Friday.

"We still have a long way to go," notes Yannis Stournaras, governor of the Bank of Greece, in an interview with Kathimerini on the occasion of the completion of the third Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday, marking the country's transition to a new era.

Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis called on Greece's central banker to resign on Sunday, seemingly irked by Yannis Stournaras' warning that the country has to press on with reforms even after its third bailout program expires on Monday.

Greece still has 'a long way to go' to fix imbalances in its economy and problems in the functioning of the state after the country officially exits its latest bailout program on Monday, the country's central bank governor said in an interview with Kathimerini, published on Sunday.

The markets are waiting to see whether Greece remains committed to its promised reforms after the bailout program ends on August 20, and will punish the country if it backtracks on its pledges, central banker Yannis Stournaras warned in an interview with the Financial Times published on Tuesday.

The Bank of Greece announced on Thursday it will donate five million euros to help people affected by the deadly wildfires of 23 and 24 July that killed at least 83 people in Attica and assist in reconstruction efforts.

The central bank said it convened an extraordinary meeting of its general council at the request of its Chairman, BoG Governor Yannis Stournaras.