By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) on Wednesday accepted €500 million of 52-week Treasury bills in an auction initially for €400 million, at a weighted average yield of 2.41%.
3 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said Wednesday that the ECB had received more than 50 applications from payment service providers seeking to participate in next year’s digital euro pilot.
3 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Dutch State Treasury Agency (DSTA) announced on Wednesday it will reopen its 2.50% Dutch State Loan (DSL) maturing July 15, 2035, through a tap auction on June 9, targeting an issuance of between €2.0 billion and €2.5 billion.
3 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Wednesday that looking through the energy shock had become “increasingly unlikely” for the ECB.
3 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday allotted £1.60 billion of the 1⅛% Index-Linked Treasury Gilt 2035.
3 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said Wednesday that the ECB would ask banks to take proactive steps to protect themselves against cyber risks stemming from frontier artificial intelligence models.
3 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch is hardly the least serious name in the discussion about who will eventually succeed ECB President Christine Lagarde, making his multiple drawbacks as a potential candidate all the more deserving of scrutiny.
3 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Wednesday signaled support for a 25bp rate increase on June 11, saying the case for hiking would probably remain in place even if a peace deal in the Middle East were confirmed shortly before the meeting.
3 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that successful participation in a monetary union required durable convergence and policy credibility over time, noting that monetary integration could not be achieved through a single policy decision or a temporary alignment of economic indicators.
2 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Spanish Treasury on Tuesday allotted €6.482 billion of six- and 12-month Treasury Bills (Letras del Tesoro) in an auction.
2 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Tuesday that he saw no reason for the ECB to surprise financial markets by holding interest rates steady next week.
2 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn's speech on Tuesday mounted the clearest argument yet for characterizing a likely June rate hike as an “insurance hike,” even as it illustrated the peril of the phrase.
2 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany's Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Tuesday allotted €3.857 billion in a reopening of its June 2028 federal treasury note (Schatz).
2 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Tuesday that a rate increase next week would amount to insurance against inflation risks rather than a response to already entrenched price pressures.
2 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Tuesday allotted £3.25 billion of the 4⅝% Green government bond (Gilt) 2037.
2 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The State Treasury of the Republic of Finland on Tuesday sold €2.0 billion of Treasury bills across two lines at auction.
2 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Belgian Debt Agency (BDA) on Tuesday allotted €3.702 billion of Treasury certificates across three lines.
2 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Counicl member Olaf Sleijpen said on Tuesday that rapidly rising government debt could constrain central banks' ability to combat inflation, noting that concerns about debt sustainability could make interest rate hikes more difficult to implement effectively.
2 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday that the Banque de France would lower its growth forecasts, although the French economy would still be expected to expand in most of its scenarios.
1 June 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania on Monday allotted €50 million of a bond maturing June 1, 2032.
1 June 2026 | Debt Issuance News