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Published on October 7, 2025 - 13:36 GMT

Euro area quarterly balance of payments and international investment position: second quarter of 2025

7 October 2025 Current account surplus at €326 billion (2.1% of euro area GDP) in four quarters to second quarter of 2025, after a €396 billion surplus (2.7% of GDP) a year earlier Geographical counterparts: largest bilateral current account surplus vis-à- …

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Published on October 7, 2025 - 13:36 GMT

Households and non-financial corporations in the euro area: second quarter of 2025

7 October 2025 Households' financial investment increased at broadly unchanged annual rate of 2.5% in second quarter of 2025 Non-financial corporations' financing increased at unchanged rate of 1.3% Non-financial corporations' gross operating …

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Published on October 6, 2025 - 12:12 GMT

Philip R. Lane: The conduct of monetary policy

Keynote speech by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the ECB Conference on Monetary Policy 2025: bridging science and practice Frankfurt am Main, 6 October 2025 My aim today is to explain the conduct of monetary policy in the euro …

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Published on October 3, 2025 - 22:08 GMT

Isabel Schnabel: Resisting deregulation: safeguarding bank resilience in an evolving financial landscape

Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the farewell symposium in honour of Klaas Knot Amsterdam, 3 October 2025 Geopolitical tensions, soaring asset valuations and financial innovation have put the topic of financial …

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Published on October 3, 2025 - 11:32 GMT

Christine Lagarde: Monetary policy and financial stability: past lessons for future resilience

Keynote speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the farewell symposium for DNB President Klaas Knot, “Europe in the world - Challenges and Opportunities” Amsterdam, 3 October 2025 It is a pleasure to be here in Amsterdam. At today’s symposium …

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Published on October 2, 2025 - 14:59 GMT

More uncertainty, less lending: how US policy affects firm financing in Europe

2 October 2025 By Anastasia Allayioti, Giada Bozzelli, Paola Di Casola, Caterina Mendicino, Ana Skoblar and Sofia Velasco Uncertainty is a key force shaping economic conditions. This post shows that heightened uncertainty about economic policy in the …

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Published on October 1, 2025 - 12:22 GMT

Euro area bank interest rate statistics: August 2025

1 October 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 October 1, 2025 - 12:19 GMT

Frank Elderson: From charting the course to staying the course: the path ahead for climate and nature risk supervision

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 ECB industry dialogue on “Climate and nature risk management: taking stock and looking ahead” Frankfurt am Main, 1 October …

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Published on September 30, 2025 - 17:47 GMT

Christine Lagarde: Trade wars and central banks: lessons from 2025

Keynote speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Bank of Finland’s 4th International Monetary Policy Conference Helsinki, 30 September 2025 Here in Finland, the idea that economics cannot be separated from geopolitics is hardly new. During …

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Published on September 30, 2025 - 17:47 GMT

Piero Cipollone: Innovating for stability: central bank money in the digital era

Welcome address by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at an event hosted by the Deutsche Bundesbank for central bank representatives attending the Sibos conference Frankfurt, 30 September 2025 Almost exactly one year ago, I gave a …

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Published on September 29, 2025 - 07:02 GMT

Piero Cipollone: Digital euro: protecting our freedom, autonomy and security

Keynote speech by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Baltic digital euro conference “Payments & Policy in a Changing Environment” organised by Eesti Pank in cooperation with Latvijas Banka and Lietuvos bankas Tallinn, 29 …

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Published on September 26, 2025 - 18:02 GMT

ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – August 2025

26 September 2025 Compared with July 2025: median consumer perceptions of inflation over the previous 12 months remained unchanged, as did median expectations for inflation three years ahead, while there was an increase in median inflation expectations for …

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Published on September 26, 2025 - 09:55 GMT

ECB presents findings from digital euro innovation platform and announces second round of experimentation

26 September 2025 Experimentation with almost 70 market participants highlights digital euro’s potential to foster innovation and financial inclusion ECB to launch second round of experimentation through platform next year to maximise innovation potential …

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Published on September 26, 2025 - 09:55 GMT

Don’t blame the herald: statistical independence is indispensable

26 September 2025 By Claudia Mann Good statistics are accurate, timely, consistent and comparable. Only then can they be the unbiased reality check needed for responsible decision-making. The ECB blog looks back at past mistakes and what Europe has learned …

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Published on September 25, 2025 - 12:16 GMT

Monetary developments in the euro area: August 2025

25 September 2025 Components of the broad monetary aggregate M3 The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 decreased to 2.9% in August 2025 from 3.3% in July, averaging 3.2% in the three months up to August. The components of M3 showed the …

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Published on September 25, 2025 - 12:11 GMT

When groceries bite: the role of food prices for inflation in the euro area

25 September 2025 By Elena Bobeica, Gerrit Koester and Christiane Nickel While overall inflation has normalised and currently lies at the ECB’s 2% medium-term target, food inflation is higher. To put a meal on the table, consumers pay roughly a third more …

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Published on September 25, 2025 - 08:36 GMT

Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations from 23 April to 29 July 2025

Prepared by Samuel Bieber and Vladimir Tsonchev Published as part of the ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 6/2025. This box describes the Eurosystem liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations in the third and fourth reserve maintenance periods of 2025. …

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Published on September 25, 2025 - 08:36 GMT

Macroeconomic impacts of higher defence spending: a model-based assessment

Prepared by Nikola Bokan, Pascal Jacquinot, Magdalena Lalik, Georg Müller, Romanos Priftis and Rodolfo Rigato Published as part of the ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 6/2025. 1 Introduction This article uses a suite of models to analyse the macroeconomic …

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Published on September 25, 2025 - 08:36 GMT

Economic Bulletin Issue 6, 2025

Overview At its meeting on 11 September 2025, the Governing Council decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. Inflation is currently at around the 2% medium-term target and the Governing Council’s assessment of the inflation outlook is …

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Published on September 24, 2025 - 21:49 GMT

ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-March 2025

24 September 2025 Chart 1 Total assets of credit institutions headquartered in the EU (EUR billions) Source: ECB Note: Data for all reference periods relate to the EU27. Data on the aggregate of total assets of credit institutions headquartered in the EU …

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