By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday said the Eurosystem is preparing to be able to issue a digital euro in 2029, provided legislation is agreed by the end of 2026.
27 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Tuesday urged policymakers to keep all options open on interest rates in the context of still high global uncertainty and especially prominent trade risks.
27 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Tuesday signaled that policymakers could move rates in either direction when they next adjusted policy, but that he expected the ECB to keep borrowing costs unchanged at its meeting in the coming week.
27 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that the current level of ECB interest rates was appropriate and that there were currently no good reasons to change policy in any direction.
27 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Monday said that it was self-evident that euro area monetary policy was accomplishing its inflation objective.
26 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Monday said that democracies favored monetary policy autonomy because the electorate realized the wisdom of committing themselves.
26 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday that the economic outlook and projections remain subject to significant uncertainty, with risks that growth could turn out weaker and inflation higher
26 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Croatian National Bank Governor Boris Vujčić’s elevation to the ECB vice presidency has turned Bank of Finland Governor Olli Rehn’s next opportunity into a conditional one. The calendar leaves room for at most one more smaller-country appointment before late 2028, and whether that path exists depends critically on what Spain manages to claim in the 2027 succession contest.
26 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Sunday argued that a digital euro would provide a simple, widely usable public payment option that lowers fees for merchants while reducing the euro area’s reliance on non-European card networks.
25 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Saturday that Europe needed to reduce its economic dependence on both the United States and China.
24 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Saturday that Germany needs to do more to shield its automotive industry from what he described as China’s “aggressive industrial policy”.
24 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The ECB's tone in our ECB Tone Meter moved slightly dovishly for the Governing Council as a whole and the Executive Board alone, settling at +0.04 and +0.12 respectively, though both remain in positive – i.e. hawkish – territory.
23 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that several GDP figures highlighted this week at the World Economic Forum were largely “noise,” noting that many reflected nominal rather than real growth, and urged greater transparency in how such data are presented.
23 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The dust having settled following European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić’s elevation to succeed Luis de Guindos as ECB vice president on Monday, the choice looks like a classic convergence outcome: a candidate who was not the clearest front-runner, but proved acceptable to the widest range of capitals in a crowded field.
23 January 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Thursday said that current interest rates were appropriate but that the ECB had to be ready to react to developments that could argue for an adjustment in either direction.
22 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on January 22 with Anna Hughes, CEO of the Australian Office of Financial Management.
22 January 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Australia is likely to introduce new Treasury bond lines of around the 12-year point and may consider launching a new 30-year benchmark in the 2026-27 fiscal year, according to Anna Hughes, CEO of the Australian Office of Financial Management.
22 January 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that the US threat to impose tariffs over the issue of Greenland would hurt others but also significantly backfire on the US.
21 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that uncertainty stemming from the recent escalation around US tariffs would have spillovers on monetary policy.
21 January 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday that Chinese exports to Europe have been increasing, while prices have declined in recent months.
21 January 2026 Central Bank News