In an interview with Die Welt, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos discussed financial stability, monetary policy, and Europe鈥檚 economic challenges amid global uncertainty.
The ECB has updated its wage tracker with agreements signed up to August 2025 and extended the forward-looking horizon to June 2026. Early signals suggest negotiated wage growth in the euro area is set to decline and stabilise in the first half of 2026.
The European Central Bank published its supervisory banking statistics for significant institutions for the second quarter of 2025. The data show a broadly stable picture of capital strength, asset quality, profitability, and liquidity across euro area banks under direct ECB supervision.
Patrick Montagner, Member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, writes in Eurofi Magazine about the rising role of non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) and the risks they pose to financial stability. While NBFIs now represent more than half of euro area financial sector assets, their diversity in size, business models, and regulatory treatment makes oversight […]
In her opening speech at the 10th ECB Annual Research Conference, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, stressed that despite constant transformation in the financial system, the nature of risks does not change 鈥� old problems reappear in new forms. The conference, co-organised with Stanford鈥檚 Hoover Institution, is provocatively titled 鈥淭he Next Financial […]
Composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for聽new loans to corporations聽decreased by 8 basis points to 3.52%; indicator for聽new loans to households for house purchase聽broadly unchanged at 3.28% Composite interest rate for聽new deposits with agreed maturity from corporations聽decreased by 5 basis points to 1.89%; interest rate for聽overnight deposits聽from corporations聽broadly unchanged at 0.51% Composite interest rate for聽new deposits with agreed […]
The digital euro project has a simple motivation: to ensure that people in a digital world retain the option to make or receive payments in central bank money. Supplementing physical cash with digital cash will support the modernization of the traditional two-tier monetary system that allows both cash and bank deposits as a medium of […]
ECB and People鈥檚 Bank of China extend euro-renminbi currency swap arrangement for another three years Swap arrangement has maximum size of CNY 350 billion and 鈧�45 billion Arrangement serves as backstop liquidity facility to address potential shortages of Chinese renminbi at euro area banks
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has passed away at the age of 91, the Armani fashion house announced on Thursday.
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