By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Three months after we argued that the remarkable stability of the field of plausible candidates to succeed European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde was increasingly good news for former De Nederlandsche Bank President Klaas Knot, strikingly little has changed in this respect.
25 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German grid operator TenneT Germany on Tuesday priced €2.6 billion of dual-tranche green hybrid bonds in its inaugural European Green Bond (EuGB) hybrid transaction.
25 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the euro area's permanent rescue fund, on Tuesday raised $2 billion in a new five-year bond transaction.
25 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany's Federal Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Monday allotted a total of €4.635 billion across two reopened Bubills.
24 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German lender Commerzbank on Monday priced a €1 billion mortgage covered bond.
24 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France’s Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Monday allotted €7.089 billion across four fixed-rate discount Treasury bills (BTFs).
24 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German bank Bayerische Landesbank on Monday priced a €750 million covered bond.
24 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Finland-based bank Nordea on Monday priced CHF200 million of senior preferred green bonds.
24 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Belgian Debt Agency (BDA) on Monday sold €3.011 billion of three linear bonds (OLOs).
24 August 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde's reported declaration that she is "ready to serve" as the next president of the World Economic Forum adds weight to the long-running case for her leaving Frankfurt before her term expires at the end of October 2027.
24 August 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A further 25bp European Central Bank interest rate hike in September looks increasingly likely, with unexpectedly resilient economic activity leaving little obvious reason for policymakers to confound longstanding market expectations – embedded as well in the baseline outlook – of further tightening.
24 August 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday that monetary policy should be “well calibrated,” as raising interest rates in response to a supply shock could weigh on economic growth, adding that inflation was currently consistent with the ECB’s baseline scenario.
24 August 2026 Central Bank News
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