--As the lira falls, the European Central Bank has become concerned about the exposure of banks such as BBVA, BNP Paribas and UniCredit to Turkey, the Financial Times reports, citing unnamed sources.

--The ECB's Single Supervisory Mechanism, created to monitor the activity of Europe's biggest lenders, doesn't yet see the situation as critical, but is concerned about Turkish borrowers defaulting on foreign-currency loans, according to the FT.

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