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Published on June 10, 2025 - 10:22 GMT

Reading the market’s pulse: monitoring investors’ risk appetite

10 June 2025 By Benjamin Böninghausen and Florian Hartmann Geopolitical tensions and trade policy uncertainty are injecting unpredictability into global financial markets. What seems like rock-solid market sentiment today can turn into jitters tomorrow. In …

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Published on June 9, 2025 - 09:33 GMT

Frank Elderson: The rule of law as a constitutional pillar of European central banking

Keynote speech by Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the Italian constitutional court Rome, 9 June 2025 Introduction Thank you very much for inviting me. The writings, judgments …

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Published on June 7, 2025 - 07:59 GMT

Christine Lagarde: Stemming the tide: safeguarding our ocean and economy

Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco Monaco, 7 June 2025 It is a pleasure to speak at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum. In his 1857 poem “Man and the Sea”, Charles Baudelaire explored the deep …

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Published on June 6, 2025 - 12:23 GMT

ECB to add new reporting agents to the €STR

6 June 2025 24 new banks to be added to the euro short-term rate (€STR) reporting population as of 2 July 2025 Increase in reporting population will further support the benchmark’s robustness and representativeness The European Central Bank (ECB), as …

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Published on June 5, 2025 - 19:21 GMT

Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area, June 2025

The outlook for euro area economic growth is clouded by trade tensions and elevated global uncertainty. For 2025 as a whole, these effects are seen to be partly compensated by stronger than expected economic activity in the first quarter, which likely …

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Published on June 4, 2025 - 19:07 GMT

ECB reports on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro adoption

4 June 2025 ECB report assesses Bulgaria’s progress towards Economic and Monetary Union Positive assessment with respect to possible euro adoption on 1 January 2026 Bulgaria has made good progress towards economic convergence with the euro area since 2024, …

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Published on June 4, 2025 - 12:54 GMT

Convergence Report, June 2025

This Convergence Report has been prepared following a request for a country examination submitted by Bulgaria on 25 February 2025. In producing this report, the ECB fulfils its requirement under Article 140 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European …

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Published on June 4, 2025 - 10:52 GMT

Euro area bank interest rate statistics: April 2025

4 June 2025 Bank interest rates for corporations Chart 1 Bank interest rates on new loans to, and deposits from, euro area corporations (percentages per annum) Data for cost of borrowing and deposit interest rates for corporations (Chart 1)The composite …

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Published on May 30, 2025 - 11:23 GMT

Monetary developments in the euro area: April 2025

30 May 2025 Components of the broad monetary aggregate M3 The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 3.9% in April 2025 from 3.7% in March, averaging 3.8% in the three months up to April. The components of M3 showed the …

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Published on May 28, 2025 - 15:12 GMT

ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – April 2025

28 May 2025 Compared with March 2025: median consumer perceptions of inflation over the previous 12 months remained unchanged, as did median expectations for inflation three and five years ahead, while median inflation expectations for the next 12 months …

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Published on May 28, 2025 - 14:58 GMT

Monetary policy transmission: from mortgage rates to consumption

28 May 2025 By Pedro Baptista, Maarten Dossche, Andrew Hannon, Dorian Henricot, Omiros Kouvavas, Davide Malacrino and Larissa Zimmermann Despite recent ECB rate cuts, the average interest rate on mortgages is expected to increase further. This is because …

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Published on May 27, 2025 - 20:54 GMT

Philip R. Lane: Interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

27 May 2025 Mr Lane, inflation rates in the euro area have fallen sharply since autumn 2022. Has inflation been beaten? As you say, inflation rates were temporarily above 10 per cent in 2022. Over the past two years, we have focused on bringing inflation …

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Published on May 27, 2025 - 08:05 GMT

Private safe asset supply and financial instability

by Madalen Castells-Jauregui[1] This article explores how banks supply safe assets through securitisation and evaluates the consequences for financial stability. As safe assets become scarcer, banks increasingly rely on securitisation to produce safe …

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Published on May 27, 2025 - 08:04 GMT

Luis de Guindos: Interview with Ta Nea

27 May 2025 What is the key message from the latest issue of the ECB’s Financial Stability Review? Uncertainty in the global economy has increased significantly since the last Financial Stability Review in November 2024, mainly because of the abrupt change …

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Published on May 26, 2025 - 16:50 GMT

Christine Lagarde: Earning influence: lessons from the history of international currencies

Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at an event on Europe’s role in a fragmented world organised by Jacques Delors Centre at Hertie School in Berlin, Germany Berlin, 26 May 2025 Over the past 80 years, the global economy thrived on a …

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Published on May 23, 2025 - 10:59 GMT

The European economy is not drought-proof

23 May 2025 By Andrej Ceglar, Francesca Danieli, Irene Heemskerk, Mark Jwaideh and Nicola Ranger The degradation of natural ecosystems slows growth and leads to financial instability. Water scarcity, natural flood protection and water quality are most …

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Published on May 22, 2025 - 22:45 GMT

Meeting of 16-17 April 2025

Account of the monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank held in Frankfurt am Main on Wednesday and Thursday, 16-17 April 2025 22 May 2025 1. Review of financial, economic and monetary developments and policy options …

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Published on May 22, 2025 - 22:45 GMT

Frank Elderson: Nature’s bell tolls for thee, economy!

Keynote speech by Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden, 22 May 2025 Thank you for inviting me to speak at this annual biodiversity dinner. …

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Published on May 21, 2025 - 10:28 GMT

Just another crypto boom? Mind the blind spots

Prepared by Senne Aerts, Alexandra Born, Zakaria Gati, Urszula Kochanska, Claudia Lambert, Elisa Reinhold and Anton van der Kraaij Published as part of the Financial Stability Review, May 2025. The market capitalisation of crypto-assets has surged recently …

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Published on May 21, 2025 - 10:28 GMT

Navigating financial stability in an ageing world

Prepared by Sándor Gardó, Benjamin Klaus, David Kurig and Manuela Storz[1] Published as part of the Financial Stability Review, May 2025. The number of older people in the EU has increased markedly in recent decades and is projected to go on rising. This …

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