By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s July rate decision will depend less on whether the Middle East shock has formally eased than on whether the shock is still working its way into the Eurozone inflation process.
24 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) on Wednesday priced €1.25 billion of five-year green senior non-preferred unsecured notes.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday allotted £4.250 billion of the 4⅛% Treasury Gilt 2031.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Wednesday allotted €1.782 billion to bidders through reopenings of its 2037 and 2047 federal government bonds (Bunds), with the federal government retaining a further €218 million.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Wednesday sold €4.250 billion of a conventional Treasury bond (BTP) and an inflation-linked Treasury bond (BTPei), according to data published by the Bank of Italy.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Wednesday said measures financed through Green BTP issuances carried out in 2025 amounted to €13.6 billion.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said the digital euro should become a core element of payments in Europe, arguing that it would modernize central bank money, support European sovereignty and help Europe compete in digital finance.
24 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) on Wednesday accepted €500 million in an auction of 26-week Treasury bills, above the €400 million amount auctioned.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – French public administrative agency CADES (Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale) on Tuesday priced a €2.5 billion social bond due September 2030.
23 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the ECB was not prepared to provide forward guidance and wanted to keep "every meeting live."
23 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German state-owned development bank KfW on Tuesday priced a €3 billion tap of its October 2031 benchmark bond after order books closed above €8.5 billion, including €1 billion of joint lead manager interest.
23 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the latest energy futures curve was tracking somewhere between the ECB's milder and baseline scenarios, while stressing that uncertainty remained elevated.
23 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Tuesday said the direction of ECB monetary policy was clear and that the central bank still had work to do, while stressing that the timing of any further action would depend on incoming data.
23 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Dutch State Treasury Agency (DSTA) on Tuesday raised €1.980 billion through the reopening of its 3.50% Dutch State Loan (DSL) due January 15, 2056.
23 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The German Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Tuesday allotted €3.807 billion in a reopening of two-year federal Treasury notes (Schatz).
23 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Austria’s debt management agency, OeBFA, on Tuesday allotted a total of €2 billion of Austrian Treasury bills (ATBs) across two maturities.
23 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The European Commission is preparing a package of banking sector reforms aimed at improving the efficiency and competitiveness of the EU banking market and strengthening banks’ capacity to finance the EU economy and strategic priorities, according to a draft document seen by Econostream on Tuesday.
23 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Tuesday that the ECB raised interest rates in June because failing to respond to the energy shock risked allowing it to evolve into a broader and more persistent inflation problem, adding that policymakers remained mindful of the negative effects of higher prices on economic activity.
23 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that policymakers had assigned a higher probability in recent weeks to a diplomatic resolution of the conflict in the Middle East.
23 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane’s remarks to the European Parliament on Tuesday were broadly consistent with ECB President Christine Lagarde’s statement the day before, but not identical in emphasis.
23 June 2026 Central Bank News