ECB to supervise five Bulgarian, eight Croatian banks

The European Central Bank will take direct supervision of five banks in Bulgaria and eight in Croatia, countries that have both applied to join the euro zone, it said in a statement on Friday.

Of these banks, almost all are subsidiaries of other significant banking groups that are already supervised by the ECB, which oversees the biggest financial institutions in Europe’s banking union.

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