The Assistant Secretary of State for Finance warned today that an increase in credit without a proper risk assessment could "jeopardize" the financial stabilization achieved by the banks, "also with the efforts of the Portuguese."

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The secretary of state warned that increasing real estate credit and consumption "without adequate risk assessment would not only not represent a future strategy, as would be a waste of a unique opportunity to reorient the banking business in Portugal, undermining everything the which was achieved by the banks, but also with the efforts of all the Portuguese. "

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