• FROB funds temporary help, not nationalisation
  • 2011 will be a difficult year
  • Will keep obliging banks to provision against bad debts
  • Forecasts point to stronger economic recovery in H2 2012
  • Essential to keep up with ambitious pace of reforms
  • International investors’ perception of Spain’s banks has changed
  • Reform work has helped narrow benchmark bond spread to 190 bps
  • Sees few problems from Portugal contagion