ECB to hold call with banks on money markets

The European Central Bank will hold a conference call with commercial banks later on Friday to gather opinion on the state of money markets in the wake of the Greek debt crisis, a banking source has told Reuters.

The call is not a planned, routine call, however, the ECB regularly holds such calls with banks to get views on money market conditions.

"Yes, there is a call later, but this is not that unusual, these kind of calls go on a lot. The ECB is just asking banks directly what they are seeing (in money markets)," the source told Reuters.

The ECB declined to comment.