French, German banks to pay 15 billion euros into resolution fund: French finance minister

Reuters

Published Nov 04, 2014 05:00AM ET

French, German banks to pay 15 billion euros into resolution fund: French finance minister

PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany have agreed that banks in each country should pay 15 billion euros ($18.76 billion) toward a bank resolution fund that would limit the fallout from a banking collapse, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Tuesday.

"We'll have a system of equal weights between France and Germany, even if Germany has a lot of small banks and German authorities want to contribute less, and we have large banks," Sapin told journalists. "(It will be) about 15 billion euros."