Euro area borrowing costs showed mixed but generally stable trends in February 2026, according to the European Central Bank.

In a speech in Riga, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone warned that Europe’s heavy reliance on non-European payment systems poses growing economic and strategic risks, and argued that a digital euro is essential to strengthen the continent’s financial sovereignty.

Patrick Montagner, ECB Supervisory Board member, discusses in Eurofi Magazine the growing significance of physical climate risks for banks and the role of insurance in mitigating these risks.

Patrick Montagner, ECB Supervisory Board member, highlights in Eurofi Magazine the ECB’s efforts to simplify banking supervision in Europe without weakening prudential standards or resilience. Simplification aims to reduce unnecessary complexity in processes, improve predictability, and allow banks to focus on material risks rather than procedural burdens.

Anneli Tuominen, ECB Supervisory Board member, emphasizes in Eurofi Magazine that digitalisation has increased banks’ efficiency but also exposed them to growing operational and cyber risks, amplified by geopolitical tensions. The ECB has long focused on operational resilience, conducting targeted reviews, on-site inspections, and cyber resilience stress tests. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), effective […]

Patrick Montagner, Member of the ECB Supervisory Board, highlights in his contribution to Eurofi Magazine that the rise of non-bank financial actors has redistributed credit risk across the financial system without excluding banks. While banks’ share of total lending has declined over the past decade, they remain deeply interconnected with private markets through lending to […]

Pedro Machado, Member of the ECB’s Supervisory Board, delivered a keynote at the LBBW Fixed Income Forum in Frankfurt on 24 March 2026, addressing the expanding role of synthetic risk transfers in European banking. He highlighted that securitisation, long a polarising topic, is evolving beyond traditional funding tools to include capital-relief structures, particularly synthetic securitisations, […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) will open the public areas of its Grossmarkthalle building in Frankfurt’s Ostend district for the city’s Night of the Museums on 25 April 2026. The event offers visitors a unique combination of contemporary art, architecture, and insight into the ECB’s role in Frankfurt’s cultural and urban landscape.

A briefing published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on 17 March 2026 highlights that climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) can help European farmers maintain productivity and stabilize incomes while protecting food security and ecosystems. The analysis of 51 farm-level case studies—from the UK to Ukraine—shows that practices such as reduced tillage, crop diversification, livestock system redesign, […]

On 18 March 2026, the European Central Bank (ECB) published supervisory banking statistics for significant institutions for Q4 2025. Key highlights include a Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio of 16.18%, up from 16.10% in the previous quarter, while the annualized return on equity stood at 9.53%, slightly down from 9.88%.