European Central Bank (ECB)
Geopolitics becoming ‘key risk’ for central banks – panel
Experts at ECB conference say political upheaval now a greater concern than price growth
Iran war and persistent inflation will derail policy – panellists
Former St Louis Fed president joins ECB and BIS’s chief economists in outlining future paths
Backdrop to energy shock ‘more benign’ than in 2022 – Lagarde
ECB president says it is still too early to tell if rates will have to rise in response
Dirk Niepelt on the political economy of CBDCs
The BoE CBDC adviser discusses the social role of a retail digital currency versus commercial bank money and favours a remunerated approach
‘Rolling windows’ method may help evaluate big data forecasts
Barbara Rossi presents new approach at ECB’s AI conference
ECB expects growth, even in ‘most severe scenarios’ – de Guindos
Outgoing vice-president downplays chances of Lagarde finishing her term early
People: Austria nominates IMF executive director
Plus: Turkey’s former governor joins Canadian finance firm; new Bulgarian deputy nominated
ECB holds rates, predicts 2.6% inflation for 2026
Lagarde presents gloomy outlook for eurozone inflation and growth as energy prices spike
BIS urges central banks to look through energy price surge
Oil and gas prices up 40% and 60% respectively since Middle East conflict began
ECB says AI risk monitoring should not be a one-way street
Bank wants to exchange information on lenders’ AI model risks with market surveillance supervisors
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