By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 19 June 2026 with Denis Beau, deputy governor of the Banque de France and designated chair of the ACPR.
25 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European banking framework has become unnecessarily complex in some areas and concerns about the credibility of European supervision should no longer stand in the way of efforts to simplify regulation and supervision, according to Banque de France Deputy Governor Denis Beau.
25 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The German state of Hesse on Thursday raised €1 billion through a new seven-year senior unsecured unsubordinated state treasury note (Landesschatzanweisung).
25 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Thursday allotted £1.5 billion of the 0½% Treasury Gilt 2029 in a sale by tender.
25 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Thursday sold a total of €6 billion of two Treasury bills (BOTs), including a new €4.5 billion December 2026 BOT and a €1.5 billion reopening of an existing November 2026 BOT.
25 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s interview with Die Zeit is hawkish, at first glance perhaps surprisingly so, but closer inspection argues against overinterpretation.
25 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ante Žigman said Wednesday that the peace agreement, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the fall in oil prices would have a positive effect on inflation, even as he defended the ECB’s latest rate hike as necessary to bring price pressures under control.
24 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Wednesday said further rate hikes would be needed from today’s perspective to return inflation to the ECB’s 2% target over the medium term.
24 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s July rate decision will depend less on whether the Middle East shock has formally eased than on whether the shock is still working its way into the Eurozone inflation process.
24 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) on Wednesday priced €1.25 billion of five-year green senior non-preferred unsecured notes.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday allotted £4.250 billion of the 4⅛% Treasury Gilt 2031.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Wednesday allotted €1.782 billion to bidders through reopenings of its 2037 and 2047 federal government bonds (Bunds), with the federal government retaining a further €218 million.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Wednesday sold €4.250 billion of a conventional Treasury bond (BTP) and an inflation-linked Treasury bond (BTPei), according to data published by the Bank of Italy.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Wednesday said measures financed through Green BTP issuances carried out in 2025 amounted to €13.6 billion.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said the digital euro should become a core element of payments in Europe, arguing that it would modernize central bank money, support European sovereignty and help Europe compete in digital finance.
24 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) on Wednesday accepted €500 million in an auction of 26-week Treasury bills, above the €400 million amount auctioned.
24 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – French public administrative agency CADES (Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale) on Tuesday priced a €2.5 billion social bond due September 2030.
23 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the ECB was not prepared to provide forward guidance and wanted to keep "every meeting live."
23 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German state-owned development bank KfW on Tuesday priced a €3 billion tap of its October 2031 benchmark bond after order books closed above €8.5 billion, including €1 billion of joint lead manager interest.
23 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the latest energy futures curve was tracking somewhere between the ECB's milder and baseline scenarios, while stressing that uncertainty remained elevated.
23 June 2026 Central Bank News