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ECOFIN COUNCIL
- Main results of the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 11 March 2025
- Mediterranean Sea: Council prolongs the mandate of Operation IRINI until 2027
- Recovery and resilience fund: Council greenlights the amended plans of Ireland and Belgium
- Council agrees to enhance cooperation and information exchange on minimum effective corporate taxation
- Taxation: Council sets tax decluttering and simplification agenda
- EIB: Council grants the bank greater flexibility to manage its investment capacity
- Taxation: Council adopts VAT in the digital age package
- Macroeconomic dialogue with the social partners on 10 March 2025
- Remarks by EU Commissioner Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference
- EU Commission welcomes the landmark adoption of the VAT in the Digital Age package
- EU Commission welcomes the swift EU Council agreement on the DAC9 Directive on tax cooperation
EUROGROUP
- “A strong euro area economy is an anchor for stability and security across our continent” – Eurogroup President Donohoe’s report to the President of the Euro Summit
- Speech by Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe at the Hertie School of Governance: Europe at a crossroads: navigating the challenges ahead
- Main results of the Eurogroup, 10 March 2025
- Remarks by Paschal Donohoe following the Eurogroup meeting of 10 March 2025
- Remarks by EU Commissioner Dombrovskis at the Eurogroup press conference
ECB
- A robust strategy for a new era – Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB
- ECB wage tracker continues to indicate that negotiated wage pressures will ease
- ECB launches pilot project for research access to confidential statistical data
- Further ECB documents
- Different shades of green: EU corporate disclosure rules and their effectiveness in limiting “greenwashing”
- From flood to fire: is physical climate risk taken into account in banks’ residential mortgage rates?
- Consumer attitudes towards a central bank digital currency
- Capital markets union: a deep dive – Five measures to foster a single market for capital
- Cyber resilience stress testing from a macroprudential perspective
- The ECB Survey of Monetary Analysts (SMA), March 2025, Aggregate Results
- Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 7 March 2025
- Background slides: The ECB and Its Watchers XXV – Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board
ECB BANKING SUPERVISION
- Cyber resilience stress testing from a macroprudential perspective – ECB
- Revised Pillar 2 requirement methodology
SRB
- SRB media press Breakfast on 1 April 2025
BANKING SECTOR
- Keynote speech by EU Commissioner Albuquerque at the Association of Spanish Banks (AEB) Annual Conference: Financing the Future of Europe: the role of the Banking Sector
AML / CFT
- FinCEN Issues Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order
EBA
- The EBA consults on draft technical standards setting out the threshold for prudential risk management requirements of central securities depositories providing banking-type ancillary services
- EBA issues revised list of ITS validation rules
- EBA Final Q&As
- 2025_7344 Presentation of fully matured loans and deposits in templates F05.01 and F08.01
- 2025_7337 Definition of ‘subordinated liabilities’ for FINREP reporting
- 2025_7316 Counterparty classification of CCP
- 2025_7301 Other commitments received – calculation of guarantee amounts
- 2024_7153 MREL-REPORTING OF THE IMPACT OF GENERAL PRIOR PERMISSION
- 2024_7105 Fair value hierarchy: Financial instruments at fair value (F14)
- Ongoing EBA consultations
- 5 MARCH – 7 APRIL 2025: Discussion on a possible Delegated Act specifying the method for the determination of fees for to be paid by financial and non-financial counterparties requiring the validation of pro forma models
- 8 JANUARY – 8 APRIL 2025: Consultation on Regulatory Technical Standards on the calculation and aggregation of crypto exposure values
- 16 JANUARY – 16 APRIL 2025 : Consultation on Guidelines on ESG scenario analysis
EIOPA
- Open EIOPA consultations
- Consultation on revised Guidelines on methods for determining the market shares for reporting – 3 February 2025 – 28 April 2025, 23:59 (CEST)
- Consultation paper and impact assessment on EIOPA’s Opinion on AI governance and risk management – 12 February 2025 – 12 May 2025, 23:59 (CEST)
ESMA
- ESMA clarifies the treatment of settlement fails with respect to the CSDR penalty mechanism
- Further publications by ESMA
- Summary of conclusions Joint BoS-SMSG meeting – December 2024
- Guidelines on explanations and opinions, and the standardised test for crypto-assets under MiCA
- Ongoing ESMA Consultations
- Consultation on the draft regulatory technical standards on open-ended loan-originating AIFs under… 12 March 2025 RESPOND
- Consultation on the draft RTS for the establishment of an EU code of conduct for issuer-sponsored… 18 March 2025 RESPOND
- Consultation on the Guidelines on Internal Controls for Benchmark Administrators, Credit Rating… 18 March 2025 RESPOND
- Consultation on the ESEF RTS for sustainability reporting and on the amendments to the EEAP RTS 31 March 2025 RESPOND
EIB
- EIB: EU Council grants the bank greater flexibility to manage its investment capacity
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
- Hearing on Macroprudential Framework for Non-Bank Financial Institutions – NEW – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Public hearing on the appointment of the Chair of the European Fiscal Board – NEW – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Monetary Dialogue with Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank -NEW – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Competitive Compass and Savings and Investments Union – debate in ECON – NEW – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Draft agenda – Wednesday, 19 March 2025 – Thursday, 20 March 2025 – PE770.253v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Draft agenda – Thursday, 20 March 2025 – PE770.268v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs , Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Question to the ECB – ECB policy on commercial bank reserves held at the Eurosystem – PE770.072v01-00
- AMENDMENTS 82 – 184 – Draft opinion Harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law – PE770.062v01-00
- AMENDMENTS 12 – 324 – Draft opinion A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world – PE765.335v01-00
- Minutes – Monday, 3 February 2025 – PE768.174v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- CM 2008 2025 INIT Meeting of the Antici Group (Simplification)
- ST 6780 2025 INIT Draft REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 as regards the scope of the rules for benchmarks, the use in the Union of benchmarks provided by an administrator located in a third country, and certain reporting requirements (first reading) – Adoption of the Council’s position at first reading and of the statement of the Council’s reasons
- ST 6967 2025 INIT Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) …/… of 11.2.2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1122 supplementing Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the functioning of the Union Registry Decision to request an extension of the time-limit
- WK 2067 2025 INIT Presidency Discussion Note – Interplay between PSD3/PSR and MiCA and treatment of payment transactions with EMTs under PSD3/PSR
- WK 2065 2025 INIT Draft Agenda: Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union – Payment Services – PSD3/PSR
- WK 2457 2025 INIT Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Settlement cycle T+1) 3 March 2025 – Agenda
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
- COMMISSION OPINION in accordance with Article 19 of the Statute of the European Investment Bank
- COMMISSION OPINION in accordance with Article 19 of the Statute of the European Investment Bank
- COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION on conditions under which additional services or activities to which a CCP wishes to extend its business are not covered by the initial authorisation and conditions under which changes to the CCP’s models and parameters are significant, and the procedures for consulting the college on whether or not those conditions are met
- COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION on the intention to not adopt the draft regulatory technical standards proposing to amend Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2251 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards to the timing of when certain risk management procedures will start to apply for the purpose of the exchange of collateral
- COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION on the intention to not adopt the draft regulatory technical standards proposing to amend Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 153/2013 as regards measures against the potential procyclical effects of margin revisions
- COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION on the intention to not adopt the draft regulatory technical standards supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/834 amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the supervisory procedures to ensure initial and ongoing validation of the risk-management procedures of counterparties under Article 11(3)
UNCTAD
- Global debt at a crossroads: What you need to know about the 14th International Debt Management Conference
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
- Basel Committee progresses work to strengthen supervisory effectiveness, initiates analytical work on information and communication technology risk management and synthetic risk transfers
- Further BIS publications
- BIS Quarterly Review, March 2025 – media briefing
- BIS Quarterly Review, March 2025
- Geopolitics meets monetary policy: decoding their impact on cross-border bank lending
- The role of geopolitics in international trade
- Climate Minsky moments and endogenous financial crises
- Andriy Pyshnyy: National Bank of Ukraine press briefing – monetary policy decisions
- Victoria Rodríguez Ceja: Future challenges for monetary policy in the Americas
- Richard Byles: Update and outlook for the Jamaican economy
- Phil Mnisi: Opening remarks – 2025 Post Budget Seminar
- Felicia Dlamini-Kunene: The nexus between AML/CFT and financial inclusion
- Fritzi Köhler-Geib: Adapting to a changing world – monetary policy, structural reforms and digitalisation
- Leonardo Villar-Gómez: Notes – 27th Asobancaria Treasury Congress
- Sanjay Malhotra: Digital payments – background and benefits
- Paolo Angelini: Innovation and innovation financing in Europe
- Adriana D Kugler: The rebalancing of labor markets across the world
- John C Williams: Discussion of “Monetary policy transmission to real activity”
- Coverage Neglect in Homeowner’s Insurance
- Challenging Demographic Representativeness at State Borders: Implications for Policy Research
- Long-Run Inflation Expectations
- From flood to fire: is physical climate risk taken into account in banks’ residential mortgage rates?
- Consumer attitudes towards a central bank digital currency
- Banking complexity in the global economy
- A high-dimensional GDP-at-risk and Inflation-at-risk for the euro area
- The macroeconomic effects of a greener technology mix
- Energy prices, inflation and the ECB’s monetary policy during the 2021-22 energy crisis
- Rushing to Judgment and the Banking Crisis of 2023
- International finance through the lens of BIS statistics: the international dimensions of credit
- Commonality under pressure: banks and funds
- Growth of the green bond market and green house gas emissions
- Moving targets? Inflation targeting frameworks,1990 – 2025
- The global drivers of private credit
- Income distribution and growth in France: a long-run time-frequency analysis
- Capital markets union: a deep dive – Five measures to foster a single market for capital
- How do Firms in Different Sectors Organize their Supply Chains? Evidence from Transaction-Level Import Data
- Bank Economic Capital
- The Evolving Core of Usable Macroeconomics for Policymakers
- Endogenous Labor Supply in an Estimated New-Keynesian Model: Nominal versus Real Rigidities
- Trade Costs and Inflation Dynamics
- Credit Card Banking
- Supply Shocks, Employment Gap, and Monetary Policy
- Tail Sensitivity of US Bank Net Interest Margins: A Bayesian Penalized Quantile Regression Approach
- The Return of Inflation: Look-Through Policy Under Incomplete Information
- Sequential Search for Corporate Bonds
- The Effects of Competition in the Retail Gasoline Industry
IMF
- Further IMF publications
- New Zealand – Staff Concluding Statement of the 2025 Article IV Mission
- Country Report No. 2025/064 : Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC): Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director
- IMF Executive Board Completes the Fourth Review of the Extended Fund Facility Arrangement for Egypt, Approves the Request for an Arrangement Under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility, and Concludes the 2025 Article IV Consultation
GERMANY
- Further publications by Deutsche Bundesbank
- Unabhängig von China bleiben | Interview mit den Schaumburger Nachrichten
- Economic policy measures to boost growth in Germany | Speech held at the Berlin School of Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen für mehr Wachstum in Deutschland | Rede bei der Berlin School of Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Zwölf wirtschaftspolitische Punkte für mehr Wachstum in Deutschland
ITALY
- Banca d’Italia Working Papers
- New releases of Working Papers – 13 March 2025
- Electronic Credit Securities: keynote speech by Alessandra Perrazzelli at Universitas Mercatorum
- Verso un diritto aperto all’integrazione digitale del commercio (only in Italian) [pdf, 205.9 KB]
- Banca d’Italia receives the Central Banking Awards 2025 for risk management
- The Italian economy in brief, No. 3 – March 2025 [pdf, 1.2 MB]
- Banks and Money: National Data – January 2025 [pdf, 4.3 MB]
- Interest rates concerning minimum reserves [pdf, 33.1 KB]
- New releases of Occasional Papers of Banca d’Italia – 10 March 2025
- Innovation and Innovation Financing in Europe: speech by Paolo Angelini
- Innovation and innovation financing in Europe [pdf, 898.9 KB]
- No. 1485 – Banking complexity in the global economy
- No. 1484 – A high-dimensional GDP-at-risk and Inflation-at-risk for the euro area
- No. 1483 – Income distribution and growth in France: a long-run time-frequency analysis
- No. 1482 – The macroeconomic effects of a greener technology mix
- No. 1481 – Energy prices, inflation and the ECB’s monetary policy during the 2021-22 energy crisis
- No. 1480 – Women inventors: the legacy of medieval guilds
- No. 1479 – Minimum income and household labour supply
- No. 917 – ESG metrics in CEO compensation: incentives and sustainability in the major EU economies
- No. 916 – Digitalization in Italian local governments in 2022: the results of the IDAL survey
- No. 915 – The impact of public incentives on the birth of innovative start-ups
- No. 914 – The effects of the reform of the judicial map on the functioning of civil justice
- No. 913 – The micro-determinants of portfolio gyrations in mutual funds: evidence from machine learning models
- No. 912 – An analysis of energy poverty in the European Union
- No. 911 – The Italian automotive sector in the green transition: empirical evidence and insights from industry experts
- No. 910 – Households’ portfolio composition 2010 – 2023: evidence from the Financial Accounts
UNITED STATES
- Indebtness of the U.S. non-financial sectors
- Further publications by the U.S. Federal Reserve
- Agencies issue 2024 Shared National Credit Program report
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