Νet interest income earned from Greek securities by the Eurosystem national central banks (NCBs) under the Securities Markets Programme (SMP) amounted to 7.8 billion euros over the period 2012-16, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi confirmed on Tuesday, in reply to a question by a Greek MEP.
The powerful Eurozone central banker also noted that at the of 2016 the Eurosystem held Greek government bonds with a nominal value of 13.2 billion euros, a book value of 12.3 billion euros and an average remaining maturity of 2.9 years.
His response came to a question by leftist Greek MEP Nikos Chountis.
