New bench. Two of the seven thousand emigrants who require return of savings agreed – Express

The New Bank has reached an agreement with 2,000 of the 7,000 migrants who have signed commercial products to the branches of BES and now claim the refund of their savings, told Lusa official source of the institution.

“The accession to the solution for migrants clients is going in a very positive way, “underlines the same source, adding that as of Friday, July 31, joining translated into” 2,000 proposals signed customers, “almost” a third of customers, “concludes the same source. According to the source, to 7,000 cases correspond applications with a total value of 720 million euros.

The New Bank began presenting migrants, just over a week, a commercial solution to get their money back by investing in the products Savings Plus, Top Income and EuroAforro and now awaits the approval of a majority of the seven thousand customers to advance.

According to the same source, the commercial solution had to be authorized by the Bank of Portugal and provides prior signature of customers to the new Bank and Credit Suisse can nullify the financial vehicles. Only then you can proceed with the commercial proposal that guarantees at least 60% of invested capital, and liquidity if that is the option as well as a growing annual deposit to six years, which makes it possible to recover at least 90% of invested capital. A solution that, according to Amelia Reis, one of the spokesmen of the movement of Emigrants injured, headquartered in France, not like customers.

Speaking to Lusa on 21 July, this spokesman said even if they keep the events planned for August 10 in Lisbon on 26 September in Paris and then every last Saturdays from October in the French capital, “unless there is a miracle before.” The same spokesman said that the proposal that is being presented to customers emigrants “is not no miracle, only worse.”

The situation of immigrants is not the one that the New Bank has to solve after the resolution of the BES in August last year. According to the same source, since October last year that the New Bank is to address situations that had the underlying assets of BES senior debt that moved to the New Bank.

According to the data provided by Lusa New Bank the solutions seen since October involved a total of almost 14,000 customers and applied a value of 2,120 million euros. According to the same source, on deposits, and as the Express reported last week, the New Bank exceeded for the first time the BES on a comparable basis. A result that was possible because since September last year deposits increased six billion four billion in 2014 and about two billion this year.

In terms of lending, according to same source, the New Bank continues to lead the line SME Growth, a support vehicle for small and medium enterprises, with a 24.1% market share, totaling 203 million euros of credit granted.