Fears are increasing that Greece will not be able to pay its debts and it will defer them. The banned hedge funds hold just 4 percent of Greek foreign debt, most bonds are in the portfolios of local banks.

Increasingly insistent become scenarios of the formation of two large private banks, which will swallow their smaller brethren. This is expected to radically change the landscape of the banking market in the country and the beginning is put by the National Bank of Greece with 75% drop in net profit for the first trimesichie 2010.