By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Friday that regulatory capital requirements were not currently constraining bank lending in the euro area, arguing that subdued credit dynamics instead reflected weak demand, economic uncertainty and broader macroeconomic conditions.
2 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Friday that the euro area inflation and growth outlook was being pulled in opposing directions by sharply higher energy prices and rising long-term interest rates, leaving the European Central Bank’s projections subject to unusually high uncertainty.
2 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that the ECB's Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI) was aimed at ensuring the effective conduct of monetary policy and maintaining price stability, rather than responding to specific sovereign spread levels.
1 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned Thursday that the increasing use of artificial intelligence in finance could amplify market moves, make cyberattacks faster and more disruptive and leave European financial institutions vulnerable to dependence on a small number of foreign AI providers.
1 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that European banks remain resilient but that their growing links with non-bank financial institutions could create financial stability risks, and called for stronger risk management and stricter loan assessments.
1 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Thursday that monetary policy would “continue to do whatever is needed to safeguard price stability,” while arguing that Europe’s longer-term economic prospects depend increasingly on structural reform and deeper integration.
1 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has again declined to pin down when she might leave the ECB, but her comments published Wednesday appear to narrow the likely window for an early departure while leaving intact the possibility that her exit might coincide with that of Chief Economist Philip Lane.
1 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Thursday that the current inflation picture reflected both energy-related supply constraints and demand pressures, making the challenge facing monetary policymakers particularly complex.
1 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the current energy shock could lead the ECB to raise interest rates further if necessary to prevent higher energy costs from feeding durably through the economy and pushing up inflation.
30 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel delivered an unmistakably hawkish diagnosis of the inflation outlook on Wednesday, but the monetary policy signal at the end of her speech points away from another interest rate increase at the Governing Council’s October meeting, at least in the absence of a significant deterioration in the coming weeks.
30 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said Wednesday that central banks cannot wait for indirect and second-round effects from the latest energy shock to become visible before responding, but must judge in advance how the shock will feed through to underlying inflation and calibrate monetary policy accordingly.
30 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The contrast between two European Central Bank Governing Council members who spoke on Tuesday was striking: Peter Kažimír, usually among the most eager to raise rates, stressed that there was time to decide, while Alexander Demarco, a typically cautious voice, set out various ways an October hike could become appropriate.
30 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – VALLETTA (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 September 2026 with Alexander Demarco, Governor of the Central Bank of Malta and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
29 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar and David Barwick – VALLETTA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Alexander Demarco said higher-than-expected underlying inflation could justify another rate hike before second-round effects become visible, while a combination of adverse inflation and energy developments could make an October move compelling.
29 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Tuesday that policymakers had enough time to assess incoming data before deciding whether to raise interest rates again, while noting that the ECB needed to retain full flexibility to act if necessary.
29 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that interest rates were not yet in restrictive territory.
29 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Tuesday raised €8 billion through auctions of two Treasury bonds (BTPs) and one floating-rate security (CCTeu), according to results published by the Bank of Italy.
29 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Luxembourg’s communications satellite operator SES on Tuesday priced a €500 million senior unsecured bond.
29 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German media, services and education company Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA on Tuesday priced a €1.25 billion dual-tranche senior unsecured bond issue.
29 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday that the ECB was not yet seeing evidence that higher energy prices were feeding into wages, supporting a “measured” monetary policy approach while leaving the central bank ready to respond if second-round effects emerge.
28 September 2026 | Central Bank News