New Bank is ‘stopped’ by ‘external pressures’ – TVI24

New Bank is 'stopped' by 'external pressures' – TVI24

The works council (CT) of the New Bank reported on Friday that this “is stopped ‘by’ external pressures’, eventually competing banks.

The workers also report that remain unfulfilled reimbursements pledged by the Bank of Portugal to clients of certain financial products.

“The impression we have is that the database is stopped, someone is doing with the bank is stopped,” said the coordinator of the CT speaking to Lusa agency at the end of a hearing in Lisbon, with the parliamentary group of the PCP about the future of the New Bank.

Discussing the reasons which have led to non-realization of reimbursement to customers of certain financial products, such as’ some time ago ‘was assured would happen by the governor of the Bank of Portugal (BoP), John Matos pointed out that in some cases,’ the products already matured for about a month “and remain settle.

“The authorization has to come from bop and does not come. We are every day waiting for instructions appear to be made some repayments, but the few that were [made] are almost negligible values, “he said, quoted by Lusa.

To John Matos,” eventually you can treat yourself to pressures from other banks, because the longer [the New Bank] is stopped is best for others, it creates more distrust in customers, almost forcing them to leave for the other side. “

“There is someone who is in the lock and it’s not the bank’s management. We think outside pressures are probably other banks, this administration is to suffer in order to be calm, and this can not be ‘sustained.

In the opinion of the CT coordinator, the’ important ‘ is that “the bank start repaying those who have not been repaid ‘to’ customers coming back to trust and return, as many are already back.”

In this context, the workers argue that the institution bank is not sold “in a hurry”, arguing that “to safeguard workers and taxpayers, it is more important that the bank remain as is for later power, hypothetically, be sold, but for a fair value.”

“This is not the ideal time to sell. Clearly the banks of the competition, they put money to save this bank want to end this as quickly as possible, to also do away with the agony of them and receive the money invested here. But internally there needs to be calm and it is also necessary that the external environment improves, “argued John Matos.

Appealing to ‘leave’ the workers’ recover the database,” which “has much market share significant ‘and envied by rival banking, sales coordinator admits, but only “for a few more years here.”

“I think that if they leave work conditions, two to three years can be a period enough for us to put it on track and running as it should be and as it was. Because workers are the same, and, customers who dealt with us, many were and if there were some who went, tell us who want to return, “he stressed.

In talking comes with keeping the workers of New Bank meetings held in the last three weeks in various branches across the country, the CT have “the perception that people are motivated and do not want to sell the bank. Just ask the bank to put to work, because this time is stopped and thus do not go there. “

” Right now, people are now more relaxed in respect of redundancies and reforms, but we can never neglecting this possibility, because we saw other banks that were recapitalized what happened “, concluded John Matos, note Lusa.

CT Held at the request of the New Bank, today’s audience with the parliamentary group PCP follow-up to another held last week with elements of the Ecologist Green Party.