By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane on Monday said artificial intelligence could eventually reshape productivity, investment, employment and the natural rate of interest in the euro area, but that its monetary-policy implications remained too uncertain to support any mechanical conclusion.
23 March 2026
– European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday said Europe would need tokenized central bank money...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said Monday that future policy decisions would depend...
– European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos’ interview with Spanish daily El Mundo on Monday was no overt...
– European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said Monday that the war in the Middle East would have a strong impact...
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 13 March 2026 with Adrián Martínez, Vice Director of the Swiss Federal Finance Administration.
18 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – A new Swiss confederation bond is expected later in 2026 and could be issued around the 2041 maturity, which represents the next gap in Switzerland’s bond profile, according to Adrián Martínez, Vice Director of the Swiss Federal Finance Administration (FFA).
18 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 5 March 2026 with Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
6 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – The Iran conflict and its economic consequences are harming global growth, and a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could significantly impact inflation and growth, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn.
6 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane on Monday said artificial intelligence could eventually reshape productivity, investment, employment and the natural rate of interest in the euro area, but that its monetary-policy implications remained too uncertain to support any mechanical conclusion.
23 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday said Europe would need tokenized central bank money, closer public-private cooperation and a stronger legal framework if it wanted to scale tokenized financial markets and turn an early lead into lasting advantage.
23 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said Monday that future policy decisions would depend crucially on how the situation in the Middle East evolved, warning that the war in Iran posed a clear risk of higher inflation and slower economic growth.
23 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos’ interview with Spanish daily El Mundo on Monday was no overt attempt to prepare markets for an April rate hike, given how closely he hewed to the meeting-by-meeting, data-dependent line. And yet, the interview does nothing to make such a decision look less conceivable.
23 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 13 March 2026 with Adrián Martínez, Vice Director of the Swiss Federal Finance Administration.
18 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – A new Swiss confederation bond is expected later in 2026 and could be issued around the 2041 maturity, which represents the next gap in Switzerland’s bond profile, according to Adrián Martínez, Vice Director of the Swiss Federal Finance Administration (FFA).
18 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - A softer US dollar has done little to disrupt sovereign funding strategies, with debt management offices signaling that their USD issuance plans remain firmly in place despite the currency’s recent depreciation.
26 February 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 20 February 2026 with Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance:
23 February 2026
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter showed a notable hawkish shift in the Governing Council this week, with only a minimal shift in the same direction from the Executive Board.
20 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos’ interview with Spanish daily El Mundo on Monday was no overt attempt to prepare markets for an April rate hike, given how closely he hewed to the meeting-by-meeting, data-dependent line. And yet, the interview does nothing to make such a decision look less conceivable.
23 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – One day after European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s press conference, the flow of follow-up comments has not produced a clear consensus for action at the April 30 meeting. But it has made it clearer that a hike is a very live contingency.
20 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A month ago, we suggested that European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau’s relentless inflation-risk rhetoric could be teeing up a call for a rate cut. Alas, his latest intervention confirms it was no joke.
20 March 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf denies the ECB has a tightening bias. Almost everything else about his Bloomberg interview on Friday belied that claim.
20 March 2026