European Central Bank (ECB)
People: Austria nominates IMF executive director
Plus: Turkey’s former governor joins Canadian finance firm; new Bulgarian deputy nominated
NBU tells banks to avoid Hungary after cash and gold heist
Hungarian government official explicitly ties asset seizure to dispute over stricken oil pipeline
Financial stability initiative: Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
A holistic approach is enabling the central bank to reinforce financial stability, despite country’s challenging institutional set-up
Slovak governor downplays odds of ECB rate hike
Kažimír says bank unlikely to react this month, but leaves open option of tightening in April or June
ECB reveals longer-term DLT strategy
Bank to focus on building ‘entirely innovative and integrated’ tokenised asset ecosystem
Governor of the year: Jerome Powell
The Fed chair has shown high levels of integrity and resolve in upholding his public duty in the pursuit of price stability and maximum employment
Single and dual mandates often result in same policy – Schnabel
AI productivity boom yet to show up in eurozone data, ECB board member adds
ECB to run digital euro pilot in second half of 2027
Participants to include payment service providers, end users and merchants
ECB has ‘no reason’ to hike as ‘2026 is not 2022’ – BdF head
Villeroy de Galhau first eurozone governor to speak about war’s potential impact on inflation
Counterfeit notes continued to decline in Europe in 2025
ECB records ‘one of the lowest levels’, though Belgium, Cyprus and Czech Republic see uptick
ECB’s Donnery casts doubt over mooted competitiveness mandate
Secondary objective would ‘muddy the waters’ about bank’s role as supervisor, board member says
How will Europe’s central banks react to the Middle East crisis?
ECB unlikely to veer from rate path as it had expected to undershoot during 2026
ECB to promote women’s financial literacy with fitness tracker
EuroSteps initiative combines step counting with ‘bite-sized lessons’ in money management
Europe should be more independent of US – Nagel
Bundesbank president is latest ECB governing council member to call for European CBDC
Swiss National Bank’s profits down in 2025
Losses on FX holdings dwarfed by gold gains to enable bank to post Sfr26.1 billion profit
Delayed hikes lessened inflation’s distributional effects – study
Poorer households would have suffered more if ECB began tightening straight after pandemic
ECB posted €1.3bn loss in 2025
Reserves grew by €13.6bn while central bank thinned balance sheet by €37.3bn
DNB implements ‘geopolitical resilience programme’ for banks
Chair of supervision says Dutch central bank must be able to perform core tasks in ‘extreme scenarios’
Ex-ECB official: central banks need to vouch more for CBDCs
Monetary authorities have been cornered by banking industry, argues Ulrich Bindseil
Lagarde downplays odds of early exit
ECB president uses interviews to say she is on a ‘mission’ with a ‘baseline’ of serving out her term
Europe’s strength in numbers could mitigate risks, says Panetta
Italian governor calls for progress on capital markets union to help guard against geopolitical threats