By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said in an interview published Thursday that the legislative text needed for the digital euro should be ready by the end of this year, with the first test payments taking place in less than 12 months.
8 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said on Wednesday that policymakers were not currently seeing second-round inflation effects or signs of inflation expectations becoming de-anchored, while warning that energy prices remained a source of upside risk.
7 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said Wednesday that ECB interest rates were currently set at a level that left policymakers room to respond as the economic and inflation outlook evolved.
7 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Wednesday that he saw no need at the moment for the ECB to intervene in French bond markets.
7 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said Tuesday that ECB Banking Supervision would launch a review in mid-October of outstanding supervisory measures, reducing follow-up on lower-severity issues and potentially closing some where further assessment was no longer warranted.
6 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Tuesday that the introduction of a digital euro would not lead to aggregate deposit outflows from euro area banks under normal conditions even with a holding limit as high as €3,000, citing ECB analysis.
6 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Tuesday that rising long-term interest rates were slowing growth and reducing the pass-through of higher energy prices into other prices and wages, while stressing that heightened uncertainty justified retaining a meeting-by-meeting approach to interest rates.
6 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane is showing a pronounced reluctance to translate the latest deterioration in the outlook for energy prices into any explicit case, let alone a stronger one, for further interest rate hikes, while increasingly emphasizing forces that could reduce the amount of additional tightening required.
6 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane on Tuesday said higher long-term interest rates would weigh on euro area growth and inflation and would therefore form part of the assessment determining where the ECB’s policy rate needed to go, while the energy shock remained the dominant driver of interest rate policy so far.
6 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank still has a tightening bias, but the speed with which the possibility of an October rate increase has receded, combined with surging long-term yields and the possibility of broader sovereign stress, to our mind raises a question that would have seemed premature only days ago: will the ECB’s next interest rate move even be a hike?
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – High public debt, the growing role of non-bank financial institutions and digital innovation could make it increasingly difficult for central banks to distinguish market dysfunction requiring intervention from justified repricing of risk, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos said Monday.
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SORRENTO, Italy (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday he was concerned about inflation, describing the current picture as “challenging” as sharply higher energy prices add to uncertainty ahead of the ECB’s upcoming policy meeting.
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s tightening bias became more visible again over the past week, according to Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter, although policymakers continued to show little urgency to raise rates again. Much of the index’s increase was driven by a more detailed and clearly hawkish assessment from Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel.
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Monday that the ECB remains on a “middle path” in which a measured monetary policy response is appropriate, stressing that policymakers are not committed to a predetermined rate path.
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – Former De Nederlandsche Bank President and Financial Stability Board Chair Klaas Knot warned Monday that the rapid growth of non-bank financial intermediation was generating mounting financial stability risks, while saying implementation of measures intended to address them remained “poor” across jurisdictions.
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SORRENTO, Italy (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday that there are currently no clear indications that higher inflation is feeding through into euro area price and wage-setting, suggesting the ECB can remain patient for now despite upside risks to the inflation outlook.
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Monday that higher long-term interest rates, tighter financial conditions and the renewed energy shock could weigh on demand and reduce the need for further rate hikes.
5 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Friday that Germany’s economy was on a recovery path and could grow by around 1% this year, while warning that its underlying growth potential remained very weak.
2 October 2026 | Central Bank News
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