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Systemic Greek banks, which have already received 41 billion euros in an injection of state money from previous tranches of bailout funds received by Greece, will need another 6.4 billion, and according to stress tests performed by BlackRock Solutions, less than the nine billion estimated is from international lenders.

The meeting between Bank of Greece governor Giorgos Provopoulos and the Troika auditors concerning the banks recapitalization ended up in total disagreement.

Loans in the red have reached epidemic proportions as is borne out of the annual report from the Bank of Greece, showing they have multiplied six-fold over the last five years.