By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Wednesday that additional monetary policy action would be needed if persistently high energy prices generated wider inflation pressures, while indicating that this was not happening so far.
23 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Tuesday he was “not so concerned” about a strong wage response to the current inflation shock, as seen during the previous inflationary episode, but cautioned that the longer the shock persisted, the greater the risk was of second-round effects.
22 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that Europe has the economic strength to withstand geoeconomic fragmentation, but needs to deepen its capital markets and reduce strategic dependencies to make better use of its potential.
22 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German state-owned development bank KfW on Tuesday priced a €3 billion tap of its Green Bond due November 15, 2032.
22 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Tuesday raised €8 billion through the syndicated sale of a new 12-year Green BTP.
22 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Tuesday that strong central-bank credibility can reduce the amount of monetary tightening needed after a supply shock and give policymakers valuable time to determine whether inflation pressures will persist.
22 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane's warning that inflation is likely to remain “higher for longer” may sound hawkish in isolation, but his interview published Tuesday appears largely to restate the assessment behind the September 10 rate hike rather than signal a heightened need for another move in October.
22 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Inflation is likely to remain higher for longer as a second wave of energy price increases works through the economy, though there has so far been no broader spillover into other prices, European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said in an interview published Tuesday.
22 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank on Monday said in two press releases that the Eurosystem had launched its Pontes settlement solution for tokenized assets and that the ECB was preparing to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized securities.
21 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Monday mandated a group of six banks for the syndicated launch of a new 12-year Green BTP maturing on October 30, 2038.
21 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Recent reports on the coming European Central Bank leadership reshuffle have left the outlook strikingly close to the scenario we sketched nearly a year ago: former De Nederlandsche Bank President Klaas Knot succeeding Christine Lagarde as ECB president, with a Frenchwoman — quite possibly Banque de France Second Deputy Governor Agnès Bénassy-Quéré — taking over the chief economist portfolio.
21 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Monday that central banks should give greater weight to actual developments in demand, activity and inflation than to estimates of the neutral interest rate as artificial intelligence makes key economic relationships harder to gauge.
21 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council turned slightly more hawkish over the past week, according to Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter , but the increase was driven by a sharp shift from Latvijas Banka Governor Mārtiņš Kazāks, masking a softening in the rest of the Council.
21 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Saturday that another interest-rate increase in October could be warranted if inflation or energy prices deteriorated significantly, while arguing that policymakers should otherwise be prepared to wait for further evidence.
20 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The German government is highly unlikely to nominate Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel to succeed Christine Lagarde as president of the European Central Bank, German financial daily Handelsblatt reported Friday, citing four people familiar with the matter.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s latest Consumer Expectations Survey, released Friday, does not by itself amount to evidence that inflation expectations are becoming de-anchored, but neither will a rise in expectations at every horizon put policymakers at ease as they assess how far the latest inflation shock may propagate.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Europe’s difficulties in generating productivity-enhancing innovation reflect problems in scaling companies, financing them and providing adequate infrastructure rather than a shortage of talent or ideas, European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Friday.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Public money must remain at the center of the monetary system as payments become increasingly digital and tokenized, European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Friday, stressing the importance of preserving trust while allowing innovation.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ülo Kaasik left open the need for further monetary tightening Friday, saying inflation risks remained skewed upward and could require additional rate increases if they materialized.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Friday that interest rates would not move in sync with energy prices, stressing that policymakers would assess the broader impact of the energy shock on inflation, growth and consumption when deciding on future policy moves.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News