By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said on Friday that it was important for the ECB to preserve sufficient policy space in case new shocks make additional rate cuts necessary.
21 November 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Thursday that only a significant change in the outlook would lead him to consider another interest rate move.
20 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said Wednesday that while the 2025 EU-wide stress test confirmed banks’ resilience, broader top-down analyses uncovered pockets of vulnerability that support a cautious stance on capital buffers.
19 November 2025 Central Bank News
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19 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday said central banks must keep price stability at the heart of their mandates even as they adapt to structural changes, arguing that credibility built over decades remains essential to navigating shocks.
18 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – DUBLIN (Econostream) – Ireland faces a challenging global environment marked by elevated financial stability risks, even as domestic households, businesses and banks remain broadly resilient, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) said Monday in its Financial Stability Review 2025:II.
17 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – DUBLIN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Monday said that he was content with the ECB’s current monetary policy stance and open to whatever rate path developments dictated.
17 November 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said on Monday that, based on the ECB’s latest projections and the information gathered since September, there was no justification for adjusting interest rates.
17 November 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday that although the ECB remained concerned about sluggish economic growth, the broader macroeconomic backdrop had improved compared with last year.
17 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said Monday that the digital euro is essential to preserving monetary sovereignty and ensuring that central bank money remains usable in an increasingly digital economy.
17 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Saturday said that there remained a risk of euro area inflation again becoming too low.
15 November 2025 Central Bank News
ECB Insight: The Race for de Guindos’ Seat Begins with Centeno Quietly Making His Availability Known
13 November 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 30 October 2025 with Jun Dumolard, Head of Funding and Investor Relations at the European Stability Mechanism.
13 November 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European Stability Mechanism is aware of some investor interest in longer-maturity bonds and would “pay attention” to that demand, according to Jun Dumolard, Head of Funding and Investor Relations at the ESM.
13 November 2025 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said in an interview published Thursday that extreme optimism around artificial intelligence technology had created concentration risks in equity markets and that valuations could fall sharply.
13 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – If it wasn’t evident previously, it is now: Martin Kocher’s arrival at the European Central Bank’s Governing Council marks a clear stylistic and substantive departure from his predecessor, Robert Holzmann.
12 November 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that the ECB should remain “relaxed” unless a “big shock” were to trigger a sustained deviation from its medium-term inflation goal.
12 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 07 November with Martin Kocher, Governor of the Austrian National Bank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
12 November 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – Economic growth in the euro area could prove somewhat better than current projections, given the improvement seen in the latest data, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher.
12 November 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 economy remained “fairly resilient” and that growth in 2026 should reach “at least” 0.9%.
12 November 2025 Central Bank News