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Another positive factor for the banks, was the considerable increase of the available eligible collateral for ECB monetary policy operations, following the upgrade of Greek banks’ covered bond programmes to investment grade. It is noteworthy that for the first time since 2012, all Greek covered bond issuers have investment grade rated programmes.