By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has told World Economic Forum trustees that she is "ready to serve" as the organization's next president, the Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag reported Sunday, citing informed sources.
24 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen on Friday acknowledged the limited long-term impact of past quantitative easing while emphasizing that anchored inflation expectations remain the definitive metric of ECB policy credibility.
21 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Friday said the ECB was well positioned to raise interest rates further if necessary to return inflation to target, while stressing that it was too early to judge the outcome of next month's policy meeting.
21 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Wednesday that euro area wage developments remained moderate and showed no strong evidence so far of second-round effects from the Middle East energy shock, while saying the Governing Council would reassess the inflation outlook at its September meeting.
19 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that domestic demand was expected to remain the main source of euro area growth this year, arguing that Europe needed to turn its recent domestic resilience into a more lasting engine of economic expansion.
19 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane on Tuesday pushed back against the idea that the ECB should refrain from raising interest rates because of the resulting burden on mortgage borrowers, saying tolerating excessively high inflation as a consequence would be a "false economy."
18 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said the ECB should retain forward guidance as a monetary policy instrument, arguing that the euro area's relatively low neutral interest rate leaves it more exposed than the United States to the effective lower bound, while warning against guidance that constrains policymakers' freedom of action.
18 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy's general government debt rose by €26.2 billion in June from the previous month to €3.207 trillion, reflecting the general government borrowing requirement, higher Treasury cash holdings and valuation effects, the Bank of Italy said on Friday.
14 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German development bank Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) on Thursday priced a €500 million five-year social bond.
13 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Hypo Vorarlberg Bank AG on Thursday priced CHF120 million of public fixed-rate notes.
13 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – NatWest Group’s investment banking arm NatWest Markets on Wednesday priced CHF210 million of public fixed-rate notes.
12 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Wednesday allotted a total of €1.95 billion across the reopenings of two federal bonds (Bunds).
12 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday allotted £1.50 billion of the 1⅛% index-linked Treasury Gilt 2035.
12 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Wednesday sold €8 billion of 12-month Treasury bills (BOT), according to data released by the Bank of Italy.
12 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Swedish bank Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) on Tuesday priced €500 million of Tier 2 unsecured subordinated notes.
11 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Republic of Finland on Tuesday raised €1.449 billion through an auction of two government bonds.
11 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Finance Agency on Tuesday allotted €4.627 billion of a reopened five-year federal note (Bobl).
11 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Swiss electricity producer and international energy trader Axpo Holding AG on Tuesday priced CHF100 million of senior unsecured fixed-rate bonds due September 15, 2034.
11 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France’s Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Monday allotted €7.382 billion across four fixed-rate discount Treasury bills (BTFs).
10 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Federal Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Monday allotted a total of €4.506 billion across two reopened Bubills.
10 August 2026 Debt Issuance News