ECB raises interest rates to highest level in 22 years
By Mark McSherry The European Central Bank (ECB) raised euro zone borrowing costs to their highest level in 22 years on Thursday, with ECB President Christine…
By Mark McSherry The European Central Bank (ECB) raised euro zone borrowing costs to their highest level in 22 years on Thursday, with ECB President Christine…
The European Central Bank increased interest rates by a half-point and ECB President Christine Lagarde told markets to get ready for a series of similar…
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday doubled its key interest rate to the highest level in more than a decade. The central bank raised…
The European Central Bank raised its key interest rates by an unprecedented 75 basis points on Thursday to fight inflation and signalled that further hikes…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has raised interest rates by half a percentage point in its first increase for 11 years. The ECB had said…
The European Central Bank (ECB) announced it is planning to gradually revamp its €344 billion corporate debt portfolio to favour greener firms. The ECB said…
The European Central Bank (ECB) is discussing ways to stop big banks earning billions of euros of extra profit from the cheap lending scheme it…
The European Central Bank (ECB) moved on Wednesday to address fears that the eurozone is on the brink of another debt crisis. Government borrowing costs…
The European Central Bank on Thursday signaled an end to its bond-buying stimulus program and said it would deliver its first interest rate hike since…
By Mark McSherry The European Central Bank has warned that crypto-assets “will pose a risk to financial stability” if the present trajectory of growth continues “and…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that too many international investment banks continue to serve euro zone clients out of London and that the…
A senior European Central Bank (ECB) official on Monday launched an attack against the $1.3 trillion cryptocurrency market, comparing it to a “Ponzi scheme” and calling…
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday confirmed its plans to end its massive bond-buying stimulus scheme in the third quarter of 2022 — as…
The European Central Bank announced it has established or extended liquidity lines with central banks in Poland and four other countries to support them in…
The European Central Bank (ECB) announced on Thursday it will end most of the relaxed bank funding rules it introduced in response to the coronavirus…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has accelerated the reduction in its bond-buying monetary stimulus as inflation rises amid the war in Ukraine. The ECB said…
The European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) audited financial statements for 2021 show that profit for the year plummeted to €192 million from €1.643 billion in 2020…
The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Thursday its governing council continues to judge that favourable financing conditions can be maintained with “a moderately lower…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced it will slow the pace of its emergency pandemic bond-buying program in the final quarter of 2021 —…
The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Wednesday the surge of Bitcoin has eclipsed previous financial bubbles like the “tulip mania” and the South Sea Bubble…
The European Central Bank bought €21.1 billion of bonds under its pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) in the week to March 17. That’s an increase…
The European Central Bank (ECB) pledged on Thursday to accelerate the pace at which it buys government debt securities over the next three months to contain the rising…
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Friday took a step closer to issuing a digital version of the euro currency. The ECB said it published…
The European Central Bank on Thursday gave banks in the euro zone relief worth an estimated €73 billion from a crucial capital requirement in a…
The European Central Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme helped companies raise €213 billion via bond sales in the second quarter of 2020, up from €210…
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Tuesday extended a recommendation to banks in the euro zone not to pay dividends and not to buy back…
The European Central Bank on Thursday announced a bigger-than-expected expansion of its stimulus package to support an economy plunged into recession by the coronavirus pandemic….
The European Central Bank launched a €750 billion emergency bond purchase programme late on Wednesday in a huge effort to push down borrowing costs as…
The European Central Bank (ECB) announced a fresh stimulus package on Thursday as it cut interest rates and agreed a new round of bond purchases…
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday sent a strong signal that its monetary support for the euro area economy will be increased after the…
The European Central Bank said on Thursday it will end its €2.55 trillion bond-purchase programme at the end of this year and said interest rates…
The European Central Bank (ECB) urgently needs to increase democratic oversight and accountability if the euro is to survive the next crisis, according to a new…
Assets under management in the European fund industry increased from €14.371 trillion at December 30, 2023, to €15.382 trillion at the end of June 2024,…
Berlin-based AUTO1 Group SE, the giant digital automotive platform for buying and selling used cars, announced the successful pricing of its first-ever securitisation of German…
The European Central Bank on Thursday confirmed a reduction in interest rates — despite lingering inflationary pressures in the euro zone. The move takes the…
Central banks took collective action on Sunday to prevent a banking crisis from spreading as Swiss authorities persuaded UBS to buy Credit Suisse for about…
Mainland European financial firms hold possible opportunities for income investors as interest rates rise across the continent for the first time in over a decade, according…
Record energy prices drove the inflation rate for the countries using the Euro currency to a record 8.6% in the year through June. “Euro area…
The euro remains the second most widely used currency globally after the US dollar, according to the annual review of the international role of the euro published…
The Eurozone’s annual inflation rose to a record high of 8.1% in May, up from 7.4% in April, according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical…