ECHA CHEM now includes regulatory data on chemicals
The third expansion of ECHA’s new chemicals database, ECHA CHEM, incorporates overviews of different regulatory activities by authorities and the resulting outcomes.
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Luis de Guindos on ECB independence, euro area stability, and the digital euro
In an interview with Die Welt, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos discussed financial stability, monetary policy, and Europe’s economic challenges amid global uncertainty.
ECB wage tracker signals easing wage pressures into 2026
The ECB has updated its wage tracker with agreements signed up to August 2025 and extended the forward-looking horizon to June 2026. Early signals suggest negotiated wage growth in the euro area is set to decline and stabilise in the first half of 2026.
ECB supervisory banking statistics Q2 2025: capital ratios up, NPLs down, profitability stable
The European Central Bank published its supervisory banking statistics for significant institutions for the second quarter of 2025. The data show a broadly stable picture of capital strength, asset quality, profitability, and liquidity across euro area banks under direct ECB supervision.
Non-bank financial institutions: transmission channels and regulatory challenges
Patrick Montagner, Member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, writes in Eurofi Magazine about the rising role of non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) and the risks they pose to financial stability. While NBFIs now represent more than half of euro area financial sector assets, their diversity in size, business models, and regulatory treatment makes oversight […]
Christine Lagarde: “This time is never different” – safeguarding financial stability
In her opening speech at the 10th ECB Annual Research Conference, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, stressed that despite constant transformation in the financial system, the nature of risks does not change – old problems reappear in new forms. The conference, co-organised with Stanford’s Hoover Institution, is provocatively titled “The Next Financial […]
Euro area bank interest rate statistics: July 2025
Composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to corporations decreased by 8 basis points to 3.52%; indicator for new loans to households for house purchase broadly unchanged at 3.28% Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from corporations decreased by 5 basis points to 1.89%; interest rate for overnight deposits from corporations broadly unchanged at 0.51% Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed […]
Contribution by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, to IMF Finance & Development Magazine
The digital euro project has a simple motivation: to ensure that people in a digital world retain the option to make or receive payments in central bank money. Supplementing physical cash with digital cash will support the modernization of the traditional two-tier monetary system that allows both cash and bank deposits as a medium of […]
ECB and People’s Bank of China extend bilateral euro-renminbi currency swap arrangement
ECB and People’s Bank of China extend euro-renminbi currency swap arrangement for another three years Swap arrangement has maximum size of CNY 350 billion and €45 billion Arrangement serves as backstop liquidity facility to address potential shortages of Chinese renminbi at euro area banks
Giorgio Armani has died
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has passed away at the age of 91, the Armani fashion house announced on Thursday.