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Financial stability in uncertain times
Posted in: News
Apr
05
2025
Uncertainty in the macro-financial and credit environment is currently exceptionally high, in a world being reshaped by significant shifts in geopolitics, international cooperation, global trade policy, financial regulation and the role of crypto-assets… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2025/html/ecb.sp250403~64e41daf3f.en.html
Interview with Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Andrés Stumpf
Posted in: News
Mar
24
2025
The last ECB Governing Council meeting left the door open for a pause in interest rate cuts, or even stopping them all together. Would you be OK with rates remaining at their current level of 2.5%? At the time of our March meeting, markets were ...more »
Tagged width: ecb, politica monetaria
Mar
17
2025
This box analyses recent developments in the euro area rental market using data from the ECB Consumer Expectations Survey (CES). Rents are a large component of household spending, but their analysis has been somewhat challenging as harmonised data on households’ rent expenditure are not readily available ...more »
Mar
17
2025
Developments in house prices play an important role in the economic and monetary analyses conducted by central banks. Notably, they are indicative of the strength of monetary policy transmission and of household balance sheet positions. Residential property prices, in conjunction with financing conditions, affect the affordability ...more »
Eurosystem expands initiative to settle DLT-based transactions in central bank money
Posted in: News
Feb
23
2025
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to expand its initiative to settle transactions recorded on distributed ledger technology (DLT) in central bank money… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250220_1~ce3286f97b.en.html
Tagged width: blockchain, ecb, fintech
Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
Posted in: News
Feb
23
2025
On 23 January 2025 the Governing Council approved the extension of the ECB repo lines with eight non-euro area central banks… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/govcdec/otherdec/2025/html/ecb.gc250221~6c1e486eb9.en.html
Tagged width: capital markets, ecb
Feb
09
2025
The aggregate of total assets of EU-headquartered credit institutions increased by 5.01%, from €31.54 trillion in September 2023 to €33.12 trillion in September 2024… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250207~cb9caa3836.en.html
Feb
09
2025
The ECB has said that the direction of travel for monetary policy is clear, but the timing and extent of moves is not. What does this guidance mean to you… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/inter/date/2025/html/ecb.in250206~69a68c13da.en.html
Tagged width: banking, ecb, politica monetaria
Feb
01
2025
In recent years, a “positive neutral” approach to the setting of the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) has gained traction among EEA countries as one way to increase resilience over the financial cycle and enhance financial stability… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/pdf/other/ecb.jointreportecbesrb202501~f5cf374d79.en.pdf
Monetary policy in the euro area
Posted in: News
Dic
17
2024
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Bank of Lithuania’s Annual Economics Conference on “Pillars of Resilience Amid Global Geopolitical Shifts”, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of euro introduction, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp241216~7caa8c7202.en.html
Tagged width: ecb, eurozone, politica monetaria