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Τεκμήριο Asset protection scheme in Greece: towards a resolution of the NPEs problem(10/14/2021) Mitsopoulos, Andreas; Μητσόπουλος, Ανδρέας; Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of International and European Economic Studies; Tzavalis, Ilias; Zacharias, Eleftherios; Pagratis, SpyrosThe research aim of the present dissertation deals with the major problem of non-performing exposures (NPEs) in the Greek banking system. After the 2008 global financial crisis, which stemmed from the USA as a result of the mortgage market collapse, our country faced and is continuing facing the most severe crisis of the last decades. This crisis commenced in Greece as a sovereign debt crisis and very soon evolved, contaminating the whole banking system. The main impact of this sovereign debt crisis in the banking sector was the large deterioration in value of their assets and the upcoming huge increase in their troubled assets, the non-performing exposures (NPEs).The consequences of these events were at first instance, the transformation of the whole banking system. Many small banks been merged with other banks, leading the Greek banking system to consist of four major systemic banks today. After that, these four remaining systemic banks are striving with the major problem of NPEs. The effective management of NPEs by financial institutions is of paramount importance. The restoration of financial stability depends on this. Market confidence and credit in the financial sector should been improved, as well as the ability of the banking sector to finance the economy in order to lead to a sustainable economic recovery for the country.Today, the Greek banking system still remains with high levels of NPEs compared to the European Union average, despite the great efforts and actions which have been made all these years from financial institutions and governments. The need for a solution is urgent and necessary for a healthy banking system. Since the beginning of the sovereign debt crisis and the upcoming banking crisis with the accumulation of the huge stock of NPEs, the main actions made for dealing with it, was write-offs, provisions and a small amount of non-performing loans (NPLs) portfolios sales, but without success. The last two years a new action plan has been thrown into this “battle”, the Hellenic Asset Protection Scheme (HAPS), named “Hercules”.The “Hercules” is among others the last effort for banks to overcome the major problem of NPEs and to pass into a new era. With the government play the key role of the guarantor in this scheme, which is fully analyzed in chapter 2, and the loans management companies, called “Servicers”, being part of this action plan, it is believed that banks will get rid of the huge stock of NPEs until the end of 2022, derived mainly from the 2008 crisis (“legacy loans”), and return back in their core banking activities, the financing of business and households.