By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that the ECB was not yet seeing evidence that the latest energy shock was becoming embedded in the wider economy, and that the September rate hike had put policymakers in a good position to assess that risk.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick - FRANKFURT (Econostream) - Following is a transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream with Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. The interview was finalized on 17 September 2026.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is likely to have further to go in tightening monetary policy if its September baseline holds, Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks told Econostream, with policy rates ultimately needing to enter restrictive territory.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice-President Boris Vujčić said in an interview published Friday that there was value for the time being in maintaining the ECB’s gradual approach to monetary policy tightening, while stressing that future decisions would depend on incoming data.
18 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The chances of another European Central Bank rate increase in October will depend on the information available at the meeting and the outlook through year-end and into 2027, Governing Council member Ante Žigman said Thursday.
17 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Fragmentation rather than insufficient bank capital is the main obstacle to a more effective European banking sector, European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Thursday, calling for completion of Banking Union and removal of barriers to cross-border activity.
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn struck a measured note on Thursday on prospects for further monetary policy tightening, remaining less hawkish than some of his peers — a pattern consistent with his positioning in Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter .
17 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Thursday that there was no evidence so far of second-round inflation effects in the Eurozone, but warned that policymakers could not be certain they would not emerge and needed to remain alert to signs that price pressures were broadening.
17 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France's Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Thursday raised €12.991 billion through the sale of four medium-term OATs.
17 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Thursday that euro area inflation remained driven primarily by energy prices, with no clear evidence so far of broader inflation pressures or second-round effects, although upside risks may be increasing.
17 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Thursday that every monetary policy meeting remained live amid heightened uncertainty and that upside risks to inflation persisted.
17 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said on Wednesday that inflation was not broadening as quickly as in the previous inflationary episode, while highlighting the recent spike in natural gas prices as a development he was monitoring closely.
16 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German bank Commerzbank AG on Wednesday priced €750 million of senior non-preferred notes.
16 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank's latest wage tracker offers little evidence of renewed excessive wage pressure, but its forward profile confirms that the long decline in negotiated wage growth may be coming to an end just as policymakers are watching for signs that the latest energy shock is feeding into domestic inflation.
16 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Tuesday that rising inflation expectations were one of the factors behind the recent global bond market selloff, making it essential for central banks to maintain their credibility.
15 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Staff Committee has urged ECB President Christine Lagarde and the Executive Board to provide clarity about possible senior departures and safeguard the continuity of internal reforms, warning that prolonged leadership uncertainty could undermine trust in the institution’s communications and complicate succession planning.
15 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Europe should simplify its extensive banking regulations but must not reduce capital requirements in the name of competitiveness, European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said in a podcast released Tuesday.
15 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The case for further European Central Bank tightening is growing, and interest rates may need to move gradually into restrictive territory before higher energy costs spread more broadly to wages and prices, Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks told Reuters.
14 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Europe must develop its own artificial intelligence capacity to capture the technology’s economic gains without surrendering control over its data or becoming strategically dependent on foreign providers, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Monday.
14 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council expects to make its final decision around the end of this year on the design of the next generation of euro banknotes, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said Monday.
14 September 2026 | Central Bank News