By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter rose significantly this week across both its Governing Council and Executive Board measures, as the few policymakers who spoke in recent days all signaled that a rate hike could be on the table.
28 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said central banks should put reserves directly onto programmable distributed ledgers, arguing that doing so would allow them to modernize monetary policy implementation, collateral management and liquidity provision as finance becomes increasingly tokenized.
28 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The arguments favor another European Central Bank interest rate hike in September to safeguard the inflation target, Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said Friday, pointing to incoming data showing that inflation was persisting.
28 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A further European Central Bank interest rate increase in September remains firmly on the table, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Friday, warning against allowing inflation to become entrenched.
28 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde's decision to appear two weeks from tomorrow at the political rentrée of French centrist Hervé Morin looks more like an intervention in France's emerging 2027 presidential debate than an engagement focused on monetary policy.
28 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf, who heads the Central Bank of Ireland, over the Irish central bank's role in regulating the sale of Israeli government bonds in the European Union.
28 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As the European Central Bank works through the unfinished elements of its new operational framework, one of the longer-term questions is how structural reserve provision should eventually be divided between refinancing operations and securities holdings.
28 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – GSK Capital B.V., the Dutch financing arm of GSK plc, on Thursday priced a €3.5 billion four-tranche bond offering.
27 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Glencore Group's Irish financing unit Glencore Capital Finance on Thursday priced €600 million of senior unsecured notes.
27 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Greek lender Piraeus Bank on Thursday priced €500 million of senior preferred fixed-rate reset notes due 2032.
27 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Another European Central Bank interest rate hike "would likely be necessary unless the inflation outlook improved significantly," an account of the ECB's July meeting showed Thursday, although policymakers stressed that they were not committed in advance to raising rates in September.
27 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SOFIA (Econostream) Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 26 August 2026 with Dimitar Radev, Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
27 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SOFIA (Econostream) – Under current circumstances, prudence argues for the European Central Bank to “put more emphasis on vigilance” than patience after its September decision and communicate its readiness to act again, according to ECB Governing Council member Dimitar Radev.
27 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As technical work on the European Central Bank's operational framework review gets under way, one of the main pieces of unfinished business is how and when the ECB should begin meeting part of the banking system's recurring liquidity needs through new structural refinancing operations.
27 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany's Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Wednesday allotted a total of €1.882 billion across reopenings of two federal bonds (Bunds).
26 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – French food services and facilities management company Sodexo on Wednesday raised €1.1 billion through a dual-tranche bond offering.
26 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany's federal state of Saarland on Wednesday raised €500 million through an eight-year floating-rate note.
26 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Wednesday sold €3 billion of a new short-term Treasury bond (BTP Short Term), according to results released by the Bank of Italy.
26 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Wednesday said the Eurosystem plans to launch its Pontes service for settling tokenized transactions in central bank money this year, with 24/7 operation and multi-currency capability envisaged by mid-2028.
26 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank's review of its operational framework is moving into a more active phase, with technical work now under way and the issue set to return to the Governing Council in the months ahead.
26 August 2026 Central Bank News