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Sweden joins ECB’s instant payments settlement platform
- ECB and the Sveriges Riksbank conclude agreement on settlement of electronic payments in Swedish krona on the Eurosystem’s real-time infrastructure, TIPS - Sweden is European frontrunner in use of…
ECB extends review of its monetary policy strategy until mid-2021
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to extend the timeline for the review of its monetary policy strategy. In the current situation, the decision-making bodies…
ECB appoints Fernando Monar Lora as Director Risk Management
- Mr Monar Lora to start on 1 April 2020 - He will replace Carlos Bernadell, who is now adviser to the ECB Executive Board The European Central Bank (ECB)…
ECB announces €750 billion Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP)
The Governing Council decided the following: (1) To launch a new temporary asset purchase programme of private and public sector securities to counter the serious risks to the monetary policy…
ECB: Member of staff has been diagnosed with coronavirus
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirms that a member of staff has been diagnosed with coronavirus, COVID-19. In line with the advice of local health authorities the colleague is receiving…
ECB announces operational precautions linked to coronavirus
- All non-essential travel by ECB Executive Board and staff members restricted until 20 April 2020 - Conferences at the ECB postponed, with exception of monetary policy press conferences -…
Major European financial infrastructures join forces against cyber threats
- Largest financial infrastructures in Europe to share information to protect themselves against cyber risks - Active exchange of information on cyberattacks, threats, vulnerabilities and remedies between core financial infrastructures,…
Financial statements of the ECB for 2019
- ECB profit increased by €0.8 billion to €2.4 billion in 2019 (2018: €1.6 billion) and is distributed in full to national central banks - Net interest income on securities…
ECB publishes Consolidated Banking Data for end-September 2019
- Total assets of credit institutions headquartered in the EU increased year on year by 6.2%, from €33.2 trillion in September 2018 to €35.3 trillion in September 2019. - The…
ECB: Results of the September 2019 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)
- Credit terms remained broadly unchanged for almost all counterparties between June and August 2019 - Most counterparty types intensified their efforts to negotiate more favourable terms - Financing rates/spreads…
