Euro area banks unexpectedly tightened the conditions that business firms should meet to get loans during the second quarter, due to an uncertain economic outlook, results of a quarterly survey by the European Central Bank showed on Tuesday.
By contrast, banks had expected credit standards to ease in the second quarter during the previous survey.
These are set to remain unchanged in the three months to September, the latest Bank Lending Survey from the ECB showed.
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