{
  "id": 5055600,
  "title": "ECB Says Bank Risk Transfers Boost Dividends More Than Lending",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/ecb-says-bank-risk-transfers-boost-dividends-more-than-lending",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-02T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-02/ecb-says-bank-risk-transfers-boost-dividends-more-than-lending"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "European banks’ increasing use of synthetic risk transfers has a bigger impact on the dividends they pay shareholders than the loans they grant to companies, according to researchers at the European Central Bank.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}