By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Wednesday that most of the potential ripple effects in financial crises were in the non-banking sector.
22 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Wednesday that the most likely outcome of the ECB’s monetary policy meeting on January 30 was a 25bp cut.
22 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that the inflationary impact of President Trump’s policies would not be as significant in Europe as in the US.
22 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said on Wednesday that the ECB should cut interest rates in steps of 25bp to approach 2% by the end of 2025.
22 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Wednesday that he was not sure yet that the ECB would have to cut interest rates to accommodative territory if inflation hit the 2% target by mid-2025.
22 January 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday reiterated his preference for cautious policymaking.
22 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that the French government did not need to turn to austerity measures to achieve a 3% deficit by 2029 and a stable debt-to-GDP ratio.
22 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that the ECB did not have to deliver larger interest rate cuts as long as the pace remained steady.
21 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on January 20 with Anna Hughes, CEO of the Australian Office of Financial Management.
21 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Australia will issue a new green bond line via syndication in 2026 or 2027, according to Australian Office of Financial Management’s CEO Anna Hughes.
21 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Tuesday that he saw no reason to pause interest rate cuts or to discuss larger moves.
21 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that a 25bp cut could very well be the outcome of next week's monetary policy meeting.
21 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Monday that the threat posed to trade by US President Donald Trump would only impact the ECB’s monetary policy if it changed expectations, but not if it was a one-off.
20 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Monday that an interest rate cut at the ECB's January 30 meeting was not a given.
20 January 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following are the key quotes from European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel interview on Sunday with German news portal Finanztip:
19 January 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Sunday said that the ECB would be able to cut interest rates if inflation subsided with the anticipated speed, but that monetary authorities would soon have to consider more carefully how much room to ease policy remained.
19 January 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With so many members of the European Central Bank Governing Council, hawks and doves, having endorsed a gradual approach to monetary easing, pressing them on the issue of a possible 50bp cut at some point may seem downright fanciful.
17 January 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá on Friday said that central banks should act as a counterweight to increasingly populist policies.
17 January 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) - European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Friday said that the ECB was likely to continue easing and appeared to advocate a gradual approach, but observed that services inflation would have to decline for price stability to be restored.
17 January 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday spoke out again in favour of a gradual approach to monetary policy easing.
17 January 2025 Central Bank News