By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Former OECD Chief Economist Álvaro Santos Pereira is set to be formally appointed today as governor of the Banco de Portugal and will assume office on Monday, October 6, according to Portuguese digital newspaper ECO.
3 October 2025
By David Barwick – AMSTERDAM (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday warned that the rise of non-bank financial institutions and signs of “regulatory fatigue” could reintroduce vulnerabilities that stronger oversight since the global financial crisis had largely contained.
3 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that former DNB President Klaas Knot would be well-suited to lead the ECB.
3 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday warned that it would be “naïve” to think the euro could soon replace the US dollar, adding that strengthening the common currency's international role did not necessarily imply expecting a higher exchange rate.
2 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that the ECB would keep interest rates at current levels unless the economy was hit by another shock.
2 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Germany’s Commerzbank on Thursday published an AI-supported analysis of 17 European Central Bank Governing Council members that found Mārtiņš Kazāks and Gediminas Šimkus to be the members who most reliably signal the evolution of euro area monetary policy.
2 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Wednesday endorsed current ECB interest rates without rejecting the possibility of another rate step.
1 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday warned against any retreat from climate and nature risk supervision, arguing that such risks have become material for financial stability and must remain a core focus of banking oversight.
1 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s speech in Helsinki on Tuesday confirmed the steady honing of her message over recent weeks: policy is firmly on hold, inflation risks are bounded, and the shocks of trade conflict are proving less destabilizing than once feared.
1 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that Europe had to speak up for the Federal Reserve’s independence amid US President Donald Trump’s attacks.
30 September 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday that the ECB had so far observed little evidence of Chinese goods being redirected in large quantities to Europe, though she stressed that the situation would be monitored closely.
30 September 2025
By David Barwick – HELSINKI (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that monetary policy remained in a good place, with little inflation impact from tariffs and inflation risks to both the downside and the upside well contained.
30 September 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday that ECB’s current level of interest rates was appropriate for present conditions, but that a change in the policy environment could warrant an adjustment.
30 September 2025
By David Barwick – HELSINKI (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Tuesday highlighted the potential effectiveness of monetary policy persistence.
30 September 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Tuesday that the ECB might need to cut interest rates in December.
30 September 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said that France was in danger of being crushed under its debt burden.
29 September 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday said that the digital euro was designed to bolster monetary sovereignty, ensure universal access to safe digital money and enhance the resilience of the European payments system.
29 September 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Monday that an “elegant reanchoring” of inflation toward the ECB’s 2% target was “plausible,” describing the overall outlook as “benign.”
29 September 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that while new technologies and market entrants bring opportunities to payments and settlement, innovation must not be allowed to weaken central bank money, endanger financial stability or escape regulation.
29 September 2025
By David Barwick – TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday said that the digital euro would be a key tool to preserve Europeans’ freedom of choice, safeguard the bloc’s autonomy and strengthen its resilience in the face of global uncertainty.
29 September 2025