By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Europe’s economy is proving more resilient than widely thought and showing increasing momentum, ECB Governing Council member Martin Kocher said, while stressing that policymakers remained alert to inflation risks.
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
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said further monetary policy tightening would be necessary, with the prolonged Middle East conflict and unexpectedly resilient economic activity resulting in upside inflation risks.
26 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – ING Group’s German unit ING-DiBa on Tuesday priced a €1 billion five-year green mortgage covered bond (Hypothekenpfandbrief).
25 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The German state of Berlin on Tuesday priced a 10-year €1.25 billion senior unsecured state Treasury note (Landesschatzanweisung).
25 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Tuesday allotted £4 billion of the 4⅛% Treasury Gilt 2033.
25 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Tuesday allotted €3.828 billion of its reopened 2.70% Federal Treasury note (Schatz) due September 13, 2028.
25 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Austria’s debt management agency, OeBFA, on Tuesday allotted €2.5 billion of a green Austrian Treasury bill (ATB) maturing on November 26, 2026.
25 August 2026 Debt Issuance News