OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
ECB welcomes initiative to launch new European payment…
ECB supportive of banks’ European Payments Initiative Pan-European card and digital wallet to complete European retail payments market The European Central Bank (ECB) welcomes the decision by 16 European banks to launch the European Payments…
Monetary policy decisions – PRESS RELEASE 4 June…
At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB took the following monetary policy decisions: (1) The envelope for the pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) will be increased by €600 billion to a total of…
Luis de Guindos: The euro area economic outlook…
It is a pleasure to be here today at the European Banking Federation. I will use this opportunity to provide an overview of the economic situation in the euro area and on the current monetary…
The end of mumbling incoherence: Enhancing credibility, effectiveness…
Remarks at the 6th DIW Lecture on Money and Finance Introduction Thank you, I am very pleased to be here today.1 Since I joined the Governing Council last September, there has been much speculation about…
ECB kick-starts Eurosystem listening events for strategy review
Euro area citizens are invited to submit ideas and comments online “ECB Listens” event for civil society to take place in Brussels on 26 March Further Eurosystem listening events to follow, organised by national central…
Low inflation: macroeconomic risks and the monetary policy…
In the period between the end of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s and the global financial crisis in 2008, the main challenge for central banks was to tackle excessively-high inflation and guard…
Sabine Mauderer: Brexit – a push for market…
Introduction Ladies and gentlemen, Let me start by thanking Clearstream for the kind invitation to speak to you today. I am delighted that the Bundesbank is part of this event, as it has been in previous years.…
January results of the Bank Lending Survey in…
In Germany, banks tightened the terms and conditions for loans to enterprises and to households for house purchase by widening margins. Credit standards for loans to enterprises and for loans to households for house purchase…