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2012-05-10 — bloomberg.com
Spain is underestimating potential losses by its banks, ignoring the cost of souring residential mortgages, as it seeks to avoid an international rescue like the one Ireland needed to shore up its financial system.
The government has asked lenders to increase provisions for bad debt by 54 billion euros ($70 billion) to 166 billion euros. That's enough to cover losses of about 50 percent on loans to property developers and construction firms, according to the Bank of Spain. There wouldn't be anything left for defaults on more than 1.4 trillion euros of home loans and corporate debt
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