FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Eurozone authorities should create a an electronic platform to trade “non-performing” loans weighing down the single currency area’s banks, the European Central Bank urged Monday.

“Market failures” are hobbling trade in debt in or close to default in the 19-nation currency zone, ECB economists found in a paper, with a too-small number of buyers pushing down prices and numbers of transactions.

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