European Financial Stability Facility

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The European Financial Stability Facility was a temporary crisis resolution mechanism created by eurozone countries in 2010 to provide financial assistance to member states in economic difficulty during the sovereign debt crisis.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf intergovernmental financial institution
special purpose vehicle
temporary crisis resolution mechanism
alsoKnownAs EFSF
appliesToJurisdiction euro area member states
basedOn intergovernmental agreement among euro area member states
borrower Greece
Ireland
Portugal
continent Europe
cooperatesWith European Central Bank
European Commission
International Monetary Fund
country eurozone countries
createdDuring European sovereign debt crisis
createdFor support euro area countries that lost access to market financing
currency euro
dissolutionDate after full repayment of outstanding bonds and loans (planned)
endOfLendingOperations 2013
foundedBy euro area member states
fundingMethod issuance of bonds and other debt instruments on capital markets
guaranteeCommitments 780 billion euro
guaranteedBy euro area member states
hasCEO Klaus Regling
hasSovereignRating AAA (initially)
headquartersLocation Luxembourg City
inception 2010
inceptionDate 2010-06-07
industry financial services
legalForm société anonyme
legislativeBody euro area member state parliaments (for guarantees approval)
location Luxembourg
mainSubject European sovereign debt crisis
maximumLendingCapacity 440 billion euro
officialLanguage English
operatingArea euro area
parentOrganization euro area member states collectively
purpose provide financial assistance to euro area member states in economic difficulty
safeguard financial stability in the euro area
replacedBy European Stability Mechanism NERFINISHED
sector public finance
sharesJurisdictionWith European Stability Mechanism NERFINISHED
sharesManagementWith European Stability Mechanism NERFINISHED
supervisedBy Eurogroup
typeOfAid bank recapitalisation support via loans to governments
loan programmes
precautionary programmes
website https://www.efsf.europa.eu

Referenced by (8)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
European Stability Mechanism
European Stability Mechanism ("European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism")
European Stability Mechanism
predecessor
European Stability Mechanism ("European Stability Facility")
European Stability Mechanism
relatedTo
Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism ("temporary European Financial Stability Facility")
Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism ("European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (as main euro area bailout tool)")
replaces
European Financial Stability Facility ("EFSF")
alsoKnownAs

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