De Commissie merkt op dat het Portugese banksysteem met meerdere problemen kampte op het moment dat de steunmaatregelen werden verleend, doordat enkele Portugese banken veel vreemd vermogen gebruikten, hoge loan-to-depositratio’s (LTD-ratio’s) hadden en te maken kregen met een oplopend percentage niet-presterende leningen.
The Commission notes that the Portuguese banking system faced severe difficulties at the time the aid measures were granted, as a result of the fact that some of the Portuguese banks were highly leveraged, had high loan-to-deposit ratios, and had to cope with an increasing ratio of non-performing loans.
