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A German Bank Finally Caves: Will Charge Retail Investors A Negative 0.4% Deposit Rate

• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

 However, while NIRP has already led to a dramatic upheaval across Europe's economies as a result of a perfectly "unexpected" surge in the savings (as we warned would happen last October, and as the WSJ "discovered" last week) one key aspect of this "zone" was missing for the past two years: banks charging negative rates to ordinary, retail depositors.

However, after a two year wait, this final piece of the NIRP puzzle was revealed when earlier this week, Raiffeisen Gmund am Tegernsee, a German cooperative savings bank in the Bavarian village of Gmund am Tegernsee, with a population 5,767, finally gave in to the ECB's monetary repression, and announced it'll start charging retail customers to hold their cash.

Starting September, for savings in excess of €100,000 euros, the community's Raiffeisen bank will charge a 0.4% rate. That represents the first direct pass through of the current level of the ECB's negative deposit rate on to retail depositors.


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