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ECB’s Elderson: Banks Must Stay the Course on Climate and Nature Risk Supervision

ECB’s Elderson: Banks Must Stay the Course on Climate and Nature Risk Supervision

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday warned against any retreat from climate and nature risk supervision, arguing that such risks have become material for financial stability and must remain a core focus of banking oversight.

1 October 2025 Central Bank News
ECB Insight: Lagarde Refines “Good Place” Message Into All-But-Explicit On-Hold Stance

ECB Insight: Lagarde Refines “Good Place” Message Into All-But-Explicit On-Hold Stance

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s speech in Helsinki on Tuesday confirmed the steady honing of her message over recent weeks: policy is firmly on hold, inflation risks are bounded, and the shocks of trade conflict are proving less destabilizing than once feared.

1 October 2025 Central Bank News
ECB’s Lagarde: Limited Redirection of Chinese Goods to Europe Seen So Far

ECB’s Lagarde: Limited Redirection of Chinese Goods to Europe Seen So Far

By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday that the ECB had so far observed little evidence of Chinese goods being redirected in large quantities to Europe, though she stressed that the situation would be monitored closely.

30 September 2025 Central Bank News
Exclusive: Spanish Treasury Rules Out Further Bond Syndications in 2025

Exclusive: Spanish Treasury Rules Out Further Bond Syndications in 2025

By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Spain will not proceed with the syndicated bond issuance that had been expected late in 2025, diverging from its standard practice of four such operations a year, according to Mercedes Abascal, Deputy Director General of Public Debt Management at the Spanish Treasury.

30 September 2025 Debt Issuance News
ECB’s Stournaras: Digital Euro Aims to Strengthen Sovereignty and Resilience

ECB’s Stournaras: Digital Euro Aims to Strengthen Sovereignty and Resilience

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday said that the digital euro was designed to bolster monetary sovereignty, ensure universal access to safe digital money and enhance the resilience of the European payments system.

29 September 2025 Central Bank News
ECB’s Cipollone: Digital Euro Will Safeguard Europe’s Autonomy, Resilience

ECB’s Cipollone: Digital Euro Will Safeguard Europe’s Autonomy, Resilience

By David Barwick – TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday said that the digital euro would be a key tool to preserve Europeans’ freedom of choice, safeguard the bloc’s autonomy and strengthen its resilience in the face of global uncertainty.

29 September 2025 Central Bank News
ECB’s Makhlouf: “We Are Near the Bottom”

ECB’s Makhlouf: “We Are Near the Bottom”

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Monday said that the ECB was close to being done cutting interest rates.

29 September 2025 Central Bank News
ECB’s Stournaras: Euro Area Resilient, Inflation Near 2% but Risks Persist

ECB’s Stournaras: Euro Area Resilient, Inflation Near 2% but Risks Persist

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday said the euro area economy had shown “remarkable resilience” and that inflation was set to ease close to the ECB’s target, while warning that trade tensions and geopolitics were keeping risks tilted to the downside.

26 September 2025 Central Bank News
ECB’s Escrivá: Markets Could Be Underestimating Risks of US Policies

ECB’s Escrivá: Markets Could Be Underestimating Risks of US Policies

By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Friday that markets’ failure to price in risks related to U.S. trade policies, expansionary fiscal measures, and institutional weakening did not mean that significant negative effects could not materialize in the short or medium term.

26 September 2025 Central Bank News