Had this intervention not been made, a compulsory administrative liquidation would have eroded value and generated losses for holders of ordinary bonds and unsecured deposits; it would also have jeopardized regular banking activity, with widespread repercussions at local level.
Thanks to the new capital resources and the good quality of the assets, and under the guidance of the completely overhauled governing bodies, the bridge banks to which the businesses were transferred resumed lending to the local economies, as the banks in crisis had no longer been able to do so.