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ECB
- The ECB Blog: Europe has strengths it can build on
- European Central bank lowers key interest rates – Monetary policy decisions
- Press conference by ECB President Christine Lagarde and Vice-President Luis de Guindos
- Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
- Central bank independence in an era of volatility – Lamfalussy Lecture by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Lamfalussy Lectures Conference organised by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank
- Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises: firms report lower interest rates but a small decline in bank loan availability
- President Christine Lagarde speaks about motifs for future euro banknotes
- ECB selects motifs for future euro banknotes
- Further ECB documents
- ECB commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day with ceremony and temporary exhibition
- Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the first quarter of 2025
- ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – December 2024
- January 2025 euro area bank lending survey
- The euro area bank lending survey – Fourth quarter of 2024
- Decision ECB/2025/2 on access by non-bank payment service providers to Eurosystem central bank operated payment systems and central bank accounts
- Monetary developments in the euro area: December 2024
- The great supply shock and the euro area, viewed through a suite of supply indices
- Letter from the ECB President to Mr Auke Zijlstra, MEP, on payments
- Report by the Motifs Advisory Group
- Main findings from the ECB’s recent contacts with non-financial companies
- The ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters – First quarter of 2025
- Using the countercyclical capital buffer to build up resilience early in the cycle
- Decision ECB/2025/2 on access by non-bank payment service providers to Eurosystem central bank operated payment systems and central bank accounts
- Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises in the euro area – Fourth quarter of 2024
ECB BANKING SUPERVISION
- Further documents of the ECB Banking Supervision
- FAQs on Initial Margin model approvals under EMIR 3
ESRB
- ECB and ESRB issue joint report on experiences of using the countercyclical capital buffer early in the cycle
CAPITAL MARKETS
- European Capital Markets Institute: 2024 ECMI Statistical Package – Key findings
- Enhancing Financial Health and Wealth in the EU: A Comprehensive Approach to Boosting Retail Investor Participation in Capital Markets – BetterFinance
SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
- Transition Investing: Key Challenges and Opportunities – 2024 Report by BetterFinance
LOANS
- Eurostat: Contingent liabilities and non-performing loans in 2023
EBA
- Final EBA Q&A
- 2024_7119 Application of article 378 for free delivery transactions
- 2024_7229 Conditions for increasing the margin period of risk (MPOR) used for the exposure value of netting sets with margin agreements
- Ongoing EBA Consultations
- Consultation on Regulatory Technical Standards on CCP to strengthen fight against financial crime – 4 DECEMBER 2024 – 4 FEBRUARY 2025
- Consultation on Technical Standards on structural foreign exchange under CRR – 28 OCTOBER 2024 – 7 FEBRUARY 2025
- Consultation on Guidelines on proportionate retail diversification methods – 12 NOVEMBER 2024 – 12 FEBRUARY 2025
EIOPA
- Speech by Petra Hielkema at the BIPAR 2025 mid-term meeting
- EIOPA recommends new risk factors for flood, windstorm and hail risk in insurers’ standard formula capital calibrations
- EIOPA dashboard shows overall stable risk landscape for European insurers although market risks remain a key concern
- EIOPA provides its advice on Solvency II’s new proportionality framework to the European Commission
- EIOPA publishes annual report on sanctions under the Insurance Distribution Directive in 2023
- EIOPA’s risk dashboard on occupational pension funds shows stable risk assessment with market risks remaining a key concern
- EIOPA suggests amending the capital treatment of insurers’ direct exposure to central clearing counterparties
- EIOPA publishes annual report on sanctions under the Insurance Distribution Directive in 2023
- Latest documents of the EIOPA Document Library
- Technical advice on standard formula capital requirements for direct exposures to qualifying central counterparties
- Opinion on the 2023/2024 Reassessment of the Nat Cat Standard Formula
- Technical advice on the implementation of the new proportionality framework under Solvency II
- EIOPA’s 5th annual report on administrative sanctions and other measures under the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) – 2023
ESMA
- ESMA publishes data for quarterly bond liquidity assessment
- ESMA provides guidance on MiCA best practices
- Ongoing ESMA Consultations
- Consultation on the draft technical advice concerning MAR and MiFID II SME GM
- Consultation on the draft regulatory technical standards on open-ended loan-originating AIFs under the AIFMD
- Consultation on the draft RTS for the establishment of an EU code of conduct for issuer-sponsored research
- Consultation on the Guidelines on Internal Controls for Benchmark Administrators, Credit Rating Agencies and Market Transparency Infrastructures
- Further ESMA documents
- Board of Supervisors Rules of Procedure
- Final Report on the EMIR RTS on colleges for central counterparties
- Euribor Panel to include Finland’s OP Corporate Bank and the National Bank of Greece
- List of third-country CCPs recognised to offer services and activities in the Union
- Net short position notification thresholds for sovereign issuers
- Trading Venues with the Highest Turnover for Bonds – for CSDR Cash Penalties Calculation
- Publications by EFAMA
- ESMA’s consultation paper on conditions of the Active Account Requirements
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
- Minutes – Monday, 21 October 2024 – PE765.162v01-00 – Committee on Budgets , Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Minutes – Wednesday, 4 December 2024 – Thursday, 5 December 2024 – PE766.860v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Minutes – Thursday, 16 January 2025 – PE767.983v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Draft agenda – Monday, 3 February 2025 – PE768.087v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Draft agenda – Monday, 3 February 2025 – PE768.035v01-00 – Committee on Budgets , Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- DRAFT REPORT on implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility – PE768.025v01-00
- REPORT on the proposal for a Council directive amending Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation – A10-0002/2025
- REPORT on European Central Bank – annual report 2024 – A10-0003/2025
- Question to the ECB – Unicredit – PE767.972v01-00
- REPORT on the draft Council directive amending Directive 2006/112/EC as regards VAT rules for the digital age – A10-0001/2025
- Highlights – BUDG–ECON: debate with Elena Flores, InvestEU Steering Board Chair – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Newsletters – 2025 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- ST 5592 2025 INIT – COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Economic and Financial Affairs)
- ST 5682 2025 INIT – Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2456 of 12 September 2024 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
- ST 5676 2025 INIT – Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2455 of 12 September 2024 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
- ST 5212 2025 INIT – COUNCIL DECISION updating the list of persons, groups and entities covered by Common Position 2001/931/CFSP on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism, and repealing Decision (CFSP) 2024/2056
- ST 5214 2025 INIT – COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism, and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055
- ST 5216 2025 INIT – COUNCIL DECISION amending Common Position 2001/931/CFSP on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism
- ST 5238 2025 INIT – COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism
- CM 1439 2025 INIT – BUDGET COMMITTEE
- ST 5785 2025 INIT – COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS A Competitiveness Compass for the EU
- ST 15169 2024 COR 1 – CORRIGENDUM of 27.1.2025 to the Commission Delegated Regulation of 31 October 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the information to be included by certain financial entities in the notification of their intention to provide crypto-asset services (C(2024) 6903 final)
- ST 5795 2025 INIT – COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/… of 28.1.2025 amending the regulatory technical standards laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/931 as regards the specification of the formula for calculating the supervisory delta of call and put options mapped to the commodity risk category
- CM 1243 2025 REV 1 – Fiscal Counsellors / Attachés from the Permanent Representations – MORNING ONLY
- ST 5788 2025 INIT – Code of Conduct Group (Business Taxation) – Work Programme under the Polish Presidency
- ST 5666 2025 INIT – List of working papers (WKs) distributed to the ‘AHWP on Frozen and Immobilised Assets’ community during the Hungarian Presidency (1 July to 31 December 2024)
- ST 5670 2025 INIT – List of working papers (WKs) distributed to the ‘Working Party on Statistics’ community during the Hungarian Presidency (1 July to 31 December 2024)
- WK 668 2025 INIT – Factsheet on EU solidarity with Ukraine
- WK 795 2025 INIT – Presidency Discussion Note – Open Banking, SCA, ADR procedures, enforcement
- WK 796 2025 INIT – Annex to the Discussion Note on PSR issues
- WK 797 2025 INIT – Presidency Discussion Note on issues related to other regulations – Interplay with FIDA, Virtual IBAN, ECB reference rates, IBAN check
- WK 798 2025 INIT – Presidency Discussion Note on PSD3 – Cash-in-shops, ATM deployers, agents
- WK 832 2025 INIT – Presidency Discussion Note – Fraud prevention: platform on combatting fraud, cooling-off period, blocking transactions, transaction monitoring, anti-fraud information sharing
- WK 719 2025 INIT – Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Payment Services – PSD3/PSR) – Agenda
- ST 5750 2025 INIT – European Court of Auditors’ special report No 01/2025: Digital payments in the EU – Progress towards making them safer, faster, and less expensive, despite remaining gaps
- ST 5751 2025 INIT – European Court of Auditors’ special report No 01/2025: Digital payments in the EU – Progress towards making them safer, faster, and less expensive, despite remaining gaps Designation of a Working Party Attendance of the European Court of Auditors at the Working Party meeting
- ST 5759 2025 INIT – EBA Report on Credit Insurance
- CM 5485 2024 REV 2 – Working Party on Tax Questions (Indirect Taxation – Excise duties/Energy taxation)
- CM 1305 2025 INIT – Financial Counsellors Working Party Meeting
- CM 1381 2025 INIT – ATT. & EXP. Ad hoc Working Party on Reconstruction and Support for Ukraine
- ST 5734 2025 INIT – REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT on the negotiation of bilateral arrangements or agreements between EU Member States and the United Kingdom, relating to administrative cooperation in the field of VAT or recovery assistance for any taxes, in accordance with Article 8(2) of Council Decision (EU) 2021/689
- ST 5659 2025 INIT – Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 of 8 October 2024 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities
- ST 5173 2025 INIT – COUNCIL DECISION amending Decision 2014/512/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine
- ST 5128 2025 INIT – COUNCIL DECISION amending Decision (CFSP) 2019/797 concerning restrictive measures against cyber-attacks threatening the Union or its Member States
- ST 5130 2025 INIT – COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/796 concerning restrictive measures against cyber-attacks threatening the Union or its Member States
- ST 16388 2024 INIT – Regulation (EU) 2024/1623 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2024 amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as regards requirements for credit risk, credit valuation adjustment risk, operational risk, market risk and the output floor
- ST 16998 2024 INIT – COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex IX (Financial services) to the EEA Agreement
- ST 16998 2024 ADD 1 – Draft DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE amending Annex IX (Financial services) to the EEA Agreement
- ST 16999 2024 INIT – COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex IX (Financial services) to the EEA Agreement
- ST 16999 2024 ADD 1 – Draft DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE amending Annex IX (Financial services) to the EEA Agreement
- CM 1368 2025 INIT – BUDGET COMMITTEE
- WK 184 2025 INIT – Presentation by the Presidency on enhancing administrative cooperation in the area of gambling
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
- COMMISSION DECISION on the designation of an alternate member to the Board of Directors of the European Investment Fund
- Lithuania – transmission letter with reference trajectory
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) …/… on CCP equivalence
- COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION COMMUNICATION FROM COMMISSIONER DOMBROVSKIS TO THE COMMISSION IN AGREEMENT WITH EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT FITTO on the positive preliminary assessment of the third payment request of Estonia pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/241
- COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/… amending the regulatory technical standards laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/931 as regards the specification of the formula for calculating the supervisory delta of call and put options mapped to the commodity risk category
- Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263
- Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EU) No 692/2014
- Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EU) No 269/2014
- Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014
- Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EC) No 765/2006
- CORRIGENDUM to the Commission Delegated Regulation of 31 October 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the information to be included by certain financial entities in the notification of their intention to provide crypto-asset services (C(2024) 6903 final)
EIB
- Miha Švent appointed as EIB Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
- Governance of AI adoption in central banks – Report by the Consultative Group on Risk Management (CGRM) established at the BIS Representative Office for the Americas
- Further BIS publications
- Changing the clock: practical approaches to extend payment system operating hours
- Quality, simplicity and transparency
- Chapultepec conference
- BIS global liquidity indicators at end-September 2024
- Statistical release: BIS international banking statistics and global liquidity indicators at end-September 2024
- Policy challenges in a fragmenting world: global trade, exchange rates, and capital flows – call for papers
- Privacy-enhancing technologies for digital payments: mapping the landscape
- 2024 in review
- Gabriel Makhlouf: Remarks at the EU Heads of Mission Meeting
- François Villeroy de Galhau: For a high speed and safe journey into the financial future
- Christine Lagarde: Central bank independence in an era of volatility
- Fritzi Köhler-Geib: Emission data – a mission for statistics
- Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour: Keynote address – launch of Tun Ismail Ali Centre of Excellence in Monetary and Financial Economics
- Ida Wolden Bache: Policy rate will likely be reduced in March
IMF
- Greece: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2025 Article IV Consultation Mission
- Slovak Republic: IMF Staff Concluding Statement of the 2025 Article IV Mission
- Working Paper No. 2025/034 : TLTRO Spillovers Outside the Euro Area
- Further publications by the IMF
- IMF Executive Board Concludes 2024 Article IV Consultation with Albania
- Country Report No. 2025/021 : Albania: Selected Issues
- Country Report No. 2025/020 : Albania: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Albania
- IMF Executive Board Concludes the 2024 Article IV Consultation with the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Country Report No. 2025/031 : Republic of Kazakhstan: Selected Issues
- Country Report No. 2025/030 : Republic of Kazakhstan: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report
- IMF Executive Board Concludes 2024 Article IV Consultation with South Africa
- Country Report No. 2025/029 : South Africa: Selected Issues
- Country Report No. 2025/028 : South Africa: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for South Africa
- Working Paper No. 2025/031 : An Evaluation of World Economic Outlook Forecasts: Any Evidence of Asymmetry?
- Working Paper No. 2025/030 : The Labor Market Decisions of Older Workers in Ageing Economies: Evidence from Spain and the UK
- Working Paper No. 2025/032 : Social Security Reforms, Retirement and Sectoral Decisions
- Working Paper No. 2025/033 : The HIPC Initiative and China’s Emergence as a Lender: post hoc or propter hoc?
- Working Paper No. 2025/035 : Optimal Interest Rate Tightening with Financial Fragility
- Working Paper No. 2025/029 : Firm Performance, Business Supports and Zombification over the Pandemic
FSB
- FSB MENA Group discusses cross-border payments, non-bank financial intermediation and crypto-asset recommendations
GERMANY
- Efficiency, resilience and digital horizons: perspectives and challenges for the public sectorKeynote statement at the Digital Excellence Forum
- Deutsche Bundesbank: Further publications
- Die Bedeutung der Forschung und der Zusammenarbeit mit der Wissenschaft für die Bundesbank | Rede beim Neujahrsempfang des House of Finance
- Statement – Wirtschaftspolitisches Umfeld und aktuelle Risikolage im deutschen Bankensektor | Digitales Aufsichtsbriefing
UK
- Bank of England statement on the European Commission equivalence decision on the UK’s legal and supervisory framework for central counterparties
- Prime brokerage – speech by Rebecca Jackson
- Andrea Enria appointed to the Prudential Regulation Committee
SPAIN
- Banco de España Working Papers
- Working Papers. Macroprudential policy and the tail risk of credit growth
- Working Papers. Bank capital requirements and risk-taking: evidence from Basel III
- Working Papers. The role of wage expectations in the labor market
UNITED STATES
- Bowman, Brief Remarks on the Economy, and Perspective on Mutual and Community Banks
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