VILNIUS (Reuters) - Euro zone banks will not be able to use a new longer-term lending facility from the European Central Bank to extend mortgages, Lithuanian central bank chief Vitas Vasiliauskas said on Friday.
The ECB delayed its first post-crisis rate hike on Thursday and announced the new bank funding facility, commonly referred to as TLTRO, hoping to combat a sharp slowdown in growth and prevent pervasive uncertainty turning a slowdown into a recession.
Reporting by Andrius Sytas; Writing by Balazs Koranyi; Editing by Peter Graff
