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DIGITAL PAYMENTS
  • EU Commission on the application of Smart Payment Rules
  • Digital payments: EU auditors concerned over price interventions in the card market
  • Deutsche Bundesbank: Paying with cash or debit card less costly than with credit card
ECB
  • Corriere della Sera: Interview with Piero Cipollone, conducted by Federico Fubini
  • The ECB Blog: Public vs. private R&D: impacts on productivity
  • Further publications by the ECB
    • Philip R. Lane: Navigating a fragmenting global trading system: insights for central banks
    • Monetary developments in the euro area: November 2024
    • Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 3 January 2025
    • Euro area bank interest rate statistics: November 2024
    • ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – November 2024
    • Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 27 December 2024
  • Scientific papers by the ECB
    • Why gradual and predictable? Bank lending during the sharpest quantitative tightening ever
    • When banks hold back: credit and liquidity provision
    • Equity financing in a banking crisis: evidence from private firms
    • Climate-linked bonds
    • Economic Bulletin Issue 8, 2024
    • TLTRO III phase-out and bank lending conditions
    • Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations from 24 July to 22 October 2024
    • Monetary policy pass-through to goods and services inflation: a granular perspective
    • The effects of the Emissions Trading System on European investment in the short run
    • What’s behind the resilience of US equity prices – market structure, earnings expectations or equity risk premia?
    • Energy shocks, corporate investment and potential implications for future EU competitiveness
    • Investing in Europe’s green future: green investment needs, outlook and obstacles to funding the gap
    • The intersection between climate transition policies and geoeconomic fragmentation
    • What explains the high household saving rate in the euro area?
    • What are the economic signals from uncertainty measures?
    • Four years into the Next Generation EU programme: an updated preliminary evaluation of its economic impact
    • Explaining the resilience of the euro area labour market between 2022 and 2024
PEPP
  • Better Finance: The Future Pan-European Pension Product: Realising PEPP’s Potential for Pension Adequacy
EIOPA
  • EIOPA publishes biannual shifted risk-free rates for duration calculation in financial stability reporting – end-December 2024
  • Monthly update of the symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge for Solvency II – end-December 2024
  • EIOPA publishes monthly technical information for Solvency II Relevant Risk-Free Interest Rate Term Structures – end-December 2024
ESMA
  • ESMA publishes its Market Report on Crowdfunding in the EU 2024
  • ​ESMA launches selection of the Consolidated Tape Provider for bonds
  • Better Finance responds to ESMA’s Call for Evidence on Civil Liability Provisions Under the Prospectus Regulation
  • Ongoing ESMA Consultations
    • ESMA publishes 2024 ESEF XBRL files and ESEF conformance suite
    • Mandate of the Oversight Forum as a Joint Committee Sub-Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities
    • Current ESMA publications
    • MiFIR: Consultation on the Review of RTS 22 on transaction data reporting and RTS 24 on order book
    • Consultation on the Conditions of the Active Account Requirement under EMIR 3
    • Consultation on the technical Advice to the European Commission on the amendments to the research
    • Consultation on the draft technical advice concerning MAR and MiFID II SME GM
  • Further ESMA documents
    • Market Report on EU securities prospectuses 2024
    • ESMA publishes latest edition of its newsletter
    • Double Volume Cap Mechanism
    • Decision on delegation to the ESMA Chair of the adoption of certain noncontroversial periodic reports
    • Decision on the delegation of powers under Article 49a EMIR to CCPSC Chair
    • Decision on the delegation of EMIR 3 powers to ESMA Chair
    • CSD Register
    • New Q&As available
EBA
  • European Banking Authority publishes final Guidelines on ESG risk management
  • The EBA consults on draft technical standards on the prudential treatment of crypto assets exposures under the Capital Requirements Regulation
  • Final EBA Q&As
    • 2024_7152 Treatment of deposits pledged as collateral against loans in c66.01
  • Ongoing EBA Consultations
    • Consultation on Regulatory Technical Standards on CCP to strengthen fight against financial crime
    • Consultation on Technical Standards on structural foreign exchange under CRR
    • Consultation on Guidelines on proportionate retail diversification methods
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
  • Briefing – Commitments made at the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate 2024-2029 – PE 700.896 – Committee on Legal Affairs – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs – Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development – Committee on Employment and Social Affairs – Committee on Culture and Education – Committee on Budgets – Committee on Foreign Affairs – Committee on Transport and Tourism – Committee on Budgetary Control – Committee on Development – Committee on Constitutional Affairs – Committee on Petitions – Committee on International Trade – Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection – Committee on Regional Development – Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety – Committee on Industry, Research and Energy – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs – Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality – Committee on Fisheries
  • In-Depth Analysis – Debt Sustainability Analysis Methodology in the EU’s New Economic Governance Framework: An assessment – PE 764.183 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
  • Draft agenda – Thursday, 16 January 2025 – PE767.890v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
  • Minutes – Monday, 16 December 2024 – PE766.980v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs , Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
  • AMENDMENTS 1 – 279 – Draft report Banking Union – annual report 2024 – PE766.874v01-00
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 of 27 December 2001
  • COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION on the intention to adopt with amendments the Commission Delegated Regulation 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 in an application for authorisation of issuers of asset referenced tokens
  • COMMISSION DECISION on the adoption of the answers to be provided to questions submitted by the European Banking Authority under Article 16b(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council
  • COMMISSION OPINION in accordance with Article 19 of the Statute of the European Investment Bank
  • COMMISSION DECISION on the financing of Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs’ activities and adoption of a corresponding annual work programme for 2025
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
  • The use and disuse of FinTech credit: When buy-now-pay-later meets credit reporting
  • Commodity prices and monetary policy: old and new challenges
  • BIS CPMI takes further steps to promote ISO 20022 harmonisation for enhanced cross-border payments
  • BoK-FSC-BIS joint conference “Artificial intelligence, finance and central banking: opportunities, challenges and policy responses”
  • François Villeroy de Galhau: New Year wishes to the Paris financial centre
  • François Villeroy de Galhau: The new frontiers of insurance
  • Lisa D Cook: An assessment of the economy and financial stability
  • Olli Rehn: Addressing systemic risks to financial stability in the European Union
  • Chang Yong Rhee: An Integrated Policy Framework – application to Korea’s monetary policy
  • Chang Yong Rhee: New Year Speech
  • Gan Kim Yong: Re-positioning SGX for Asia’s growth opportunities
  • Climate Shocks in the Anthropocene Era: Should Net Domestic Product Reflect Climate Disasters?
  • Climate Policy and the Long-Run Interest Rate: Insights from a Simple Growth Model
  • Federal Reserve Structure, Economic Ideas, and Banking Policy During the “Quiet Period” in Banking
  • The Macroeconomics of Irreversibility
  • Measuring the Euro Area Output Gap
  • Hidden Risk
  • Life-Cycle Portfolio Choices and Heterogeneous Stock Market Expectations
  • A Market Interpretation of Treatment Effects
  • The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream
  • Mitigating fragility in open-ended investment funds: the role of redemption restrictions
  • Microstructure implications of ETF arbitrage with custom baskets
  • Trend-Cycle Decomposition and Forecasting Using Bayesian Multivariate Unobserved Components
  • The Passthrough of Agricultural Commodity Prices to Food Prices
  • Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Monetary Policy
  • An Anatomy of U.S. Establishments’ Trade Linkages in Global Value Chains
  • On the Balassa-Samuelson Effect in Japan
  • Firms’ Interest Payment Burden and Productivity under a Low Interest Rate Environment
  • Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Open Economy Perspective
  • Flood Underinsurance
  • The Passthrough of Agricultural Commodity Prices to Food Prices
  • Effects and Side Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy: A Shadow Rate Approach
  • Macroeconomic Impact of Shifts in Long-term Inflation Expectations
  • Green Stocks and Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from Europe
  • The Bronx is Burning: Urban Disinvestment Effects of the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements
  • Heterogeneity in Work From Home: Evidence from Six U.S. Datasets
  • Examining the Financial Accelerator: Bank Responses to the 2014 Oil Price Shock
  • Inventory, Market Making, and Liquidity in OTC Markets
  • Inflation Disagreement Weakens the Power of Monetary Policy
  • Duration of Capital Market Exclusion: An Empirical Investigation
  • Impact of the Fund-Provisioning Measure to Stimulate Bank Lending in Japan
  • Japan’s Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate Dynamics
  • Estimating the Natural Yield Curve in Japan Using a VAR with Common Trends
GERMANY
  • “Dealing with the USA and China will become tough” | Süddeutsche Zeitung, Interview with Burkhard Balz
  • “We need a new mindset in our society” | Interview with the Börsen-Zeitung
  • Bundesbank bids farewell to Helmut Schlesinger
IMF
  • Further publications by the IMF
  • Press Briefing: World Economic Outlook Update – January 2025
  • House Prices Skyrocket: What’s Driving the Global Surge
  • The Housing Crunch: What’s Driving the Affordability Crisis?
  • Birth Rates Drop Below Replacement in Most Countries
  • How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Asia’s Economies
  • Artificial Intelligence, Dollar, Growth, and Debt Drove 2024 Blog Readership
UNITED STATES
  • Reflections on 2024: Monetary Policy, Economic Performance, and Lessons for Banking Regulation -U.S. Fed Governor Michelle W. Bowman
  • Challenges Facing Central Bankers – Lecture by U.S. fed Governor Christopher J. Waller
  • Further publications by the U.S. Fed
  • Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, December 17-18, 2024

 



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