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FRTB
- EU Commission launches consultation on EU approach on market risk rules for banks
ESRB
- Speech by EU Commissioner Albuquerque at the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) General Board meeting
SANCTIONS
- EU Commission launches helpdesk to support EU SMEs comply with sanctions
SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS UNION
- Keynote speech by Commissioner Albuquerque at the international Conference “Towards a Savings and Investment Union” organised by Better Finance
- Keynote speech by Commissioner Albuquerque at the conference “Shaping the Future of European Finance” organised by the Danske Bank, Finance Denmark, and Think Tank Europe
FINANCIAL LITERACY
- Financial literacy and monetary policy transmission – Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the ECB Executive Board
PURCHASE POWER
- Purchase power parity in Europe: Eurostat unvails regional disparities
ECB
- Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates) – March 2025
- Expansión: Interview with Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Andrés Stumpf
- Further ECB documents
- ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – February 2025
- Monetary developments in the euro area: February 2025
- Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 21 March 2025
- Focus Session – Eurosystem Collateral Management System: Closing remarks
- Focus Session – Eurosystem Collateral Management System: Preparing for migration
- Focus Session – Eurosystem Collateral Management System: Timeline and key milestones ahead
- Focus Session – Eurosystem Collateral Management System: Welcome address
- RESEARCH BULLETIN – No. 129: Effects of monetary policy on labour income: the role of the employer
- STATISTICS PAPER SERIES – No. 50: Filling the gap: the geographical allocation of euro area portfolio investment liabilities and related income
- WORKING PAPER SERIES – No. 3044: Private safe-asset supply and financial instability
- WORKING PAPER SERIES – No. 3043: Macroprudential and monetary policy tightening: more than a double whammy?
- WORKING PAPER SERIES – No. 3042: Creditworthy: do climate change risks matter for sovereign credit ratings?
- WORKING PAPER SERIES – No. 3041: The expert’s edge? Bank lending specialization and informational advantages for credit risk assessment
ECB BANKING SUPERVISION
- Introductory statement by Claudia Buch, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament
- Further publications by the ECB Banking Supervision
- ECB Annual Report on supervisory activities 2024
- ECB publishes supervisory banking statistics on significant institutions for the fourth quarter of 2024
- Letter from Claudia Buch, Chair of the Supervisory Board, to Mr Markus Ferber, MEP, on banking supervision
ESM
- ESM Managing Director Pierre Gramegna: Interview with Xinhua, Caixin and South China Morning Post
- Pierre Gramegna in interview with CGTN (China)
- Pierre Gramegna in interview with CNBC Capital Connection
FINANCIAL BENCHMARKS
- EU Council adopts financial benchmarks regulation to ease burden on SMEs
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- ECB Blog: AI can boost productivity – if firms use it
- Supervising Digital Transformation in the Age of AI – Keynote speech delivered by Petra Hielkema, EIOPA Chairperson
SRB
- SRB: EU watchdogs warn that weakening rules risks another financial crash – FT article
EU COURT OF JUSTICE
- European Government Bonds cartel: Judgments of the EU General Court in several cases
DORA
- EU Commission calls on Member States to fully transpose the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Directive
EBA
- The EBA releases the draft of the technical package for its 4.1 reporting framework
- EBA identifies payment fraud, indebtedness and unwarranted de-risking as key issues affecting consumers in the EU
- EBA updates methodology on the regulatory and supervisory equivalence of non-EU countries
- 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
- EBA Final Q&A
- 2024_7277 Template specific instructions – field B_01.02.0050 (Hierarchy of the financial entity within the group)
- 2024_7278 Template specific instructions – field B_01.02.0060 (LEI of the direct parent undertaking of the financial entity)
- 2024_7279 Template specific instructions – field B_02.02.0130 (Country of the governing law of the contractual arrangement)
- 2024_7280 Template specific instructions – field B_02.02.0130 (Country of the governing law of the contractual arrangement)
- 2024_7281 Template specific instructions – field B_02.02.0160 (Location of management of the data)
- 2024_7282 Template specific instructions – field B_04.01.0040 (Identification code of the branch)
- 2024_7283 Template specific instructions – field B_05.01.0020 (Type of code to identify the ICT third-party service provider)
- 2024_7284 Template specific instructions – field B_05.02.0060 (Identification code of the recipient of sub-contracted ICT services)
- 2024_7285 Template specific instructions – primary keys
- 2025_7313 Part 2 – Template specific instructions to template B_06.01
- 2024_7135 Row 0820 of C 04.00
EIOPA
- EIOPA proposes one-to-one capital requirements for EU insurers’ crypto asset holdings
- Upcoming EIOPA events
- 8 April 2025: Online public hearing on the consultation paper on EIOPA’s Opinion on Artificial Intelligence Governance and Risk Management
- 9 April 2025: Online public event on the Third EIOPA IDD application report
- Open EIOPA consultations
- Consultation paper and impact assessment on EIOPA’s Opinion on AI governance and risk management – 12 February 2025 – 12 May 2025, 23:59 (CEST)
- Consultation on revised Guidelines on methods for determining the market shares for reporting – 3 February 2025 – 28 April 2025, 23:59 (CEST)
ESMA
- ESMA makes recommendations for the supervision of STS securitisations
- Workshop on the Registration of External Reviewers for EU Green Bonds
- Ongoing ESMA Consultations
- Consultation on the ESEF RTS for sustainability reporting and on the amendments to the EEAP RTS – 31 March 2025 – RESPOND
- Consultation on the revision of the disclosure framework for private securitisation – 31 March 2025 – RESPOND
- Consultation on the Extensions of authorisation conditions and list of documents under EMIR – 7 April 2025 – RESPOND
- Consultation on the Validations of changes to models and parameters conditions and list of… – 7 April 2025 – RESPOND
ECMI
- One market, one vision: How interstate consolidation can transform Europe’s banking landscape – ECMI
EIB
- Market Update Review of the European public-private partnership market in 2024
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
- Private financing of innovation in the EU – EP Research Service
- In-Depth Analysis – Public hearing with Claudia Buch, Chair of the ECB / SSM Supervisory Board – 25-03-2025
- OPINION on a revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world – PE768.115v02-00
- Opinion in the form of a letter on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on information security in the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union – PE770.215v02-00
- Opinion in the form of a letter on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on information security in the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union – PE770.215v01-00
- Draft agenda – Monday, 7 April 2025 – PE771.967v01-00 – Committee on Budgetary Control , Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Draft agenda – Monday, 31 March 2025 – PE771.921v01-00 – Committee on Budgets , Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Highlights – BUDG-ECON – Scrutiny of the implementation of the RRF – 31 March 2025 – NEW – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Highlights – Exchange of views with Commissioner Dombrovskis – NEW – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- DRAFT REPORT on the role of simple tax rules and tax fragmentation in European competitiveness – PE770.261v01-00
- Minutes – Wednesday, 19 February 2025 – PE770.233v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs , Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Minutes – Monday, 10 February 2025 – PE769.978v01-00 – Committee on Budgets , Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Minutes – Monday, 3 March 2025 – PE770.194v01-00 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- WK 2831 2025 INIT Shortening of the settlement cycle for EU securities from two days to one
- WK 2651 2025 INIT CMDI CWP 04/03/2025: Presidency non-paper on critical functions and public interest assessment (agenda item 2)
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT pursuant to Article 294(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union concerning the position of the Council on the adoption of a 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
- COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/… supplementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the elements that a financial entity has to determine and assess when subcontracting ICT services supporting critical or important functions
- COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION COMMUNICATION FROM COMMISSIONER DOMBROVSKIS TO THE COMMISSION IN AGREEMENT WITH EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT FITTO on the partially positive preliminary assessment of the third payment request of Romania pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/241
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
- Basel III risk-based capital ratios increase while leverage ratio and Net Stable Funding Ratio remain stable for large internationally active banks in the first half of 2024, latest Basel III monitoring exercise shows
- Further BIS publications
- Sustaining financial stability amid uncertainty, fragmentation and rapid innovation: call for papers
- Addressing climate change data needs: the central banks’ contribution
- Working together to ensure financial integrity
- Word2Prices: embedding central bank communications for inflation prediction
- And so we pay: more digital and faster, with cash still in play
- Navigating uncertainty in the global economy: central bank challenges in an era of change
- Gabriel Makhlouf: Opening remarks – launch of the Consumer Protection Code
- Sanjay Malhotra: Address – Private Sector Collaborative Forum of the Financial Action Task Force
- Kazuo Ueda: The Bank’s Semiannual Report on Currency and Monetary Control
- John C Williams: Opening remarks – New York Fed Regional and Community Banking Conference
- Adriana D Kugler: Latinos, entrepreneurs, and the US economy
- Michael S Barr: Helping small businesses reach their potential
- Richard Byles: Lessons from a small, open, developing, inflation targeter
- Klaas Knot: Presentation of the 2024 annual report
- Andrew Bailey: Growth – what does it take in today’s world?
- Olli Rehn: Eurozone outlook and European Central Bank monetary policy
- Dimitar Radev: Bulgaria currently fulfils unconditionally all nominal convergence criteria
- Christodoulos Patsalides: Current landscape and future challenges
- Tiff Macklem: Navigating tariff uncertainty
- José Luis Escrivá: Address at the presentation of the 20th King of Spain Prize in Economics
- Frank Elderson: Resilience offers a competitive advantage, especially in uncertain times
- Eli M Remolona: Going digital – changing the digital finance narrative
- John C Williams: Certain uncertainty
- Philip R Lane: The digital euro – maintaining the autonomy of the monetary system
- Martin Schlegel, Antoine Martin, Petra Tschudin: Introductory remarks by the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank news conference
- François Villeroy de Galhau: Governing the Bank of France – two lessons from history for an uncertain world
- The Secondary Market for Syndicated Loans
- Liquidation Mechanisms and Price Impacts in DeFi
- The Optimal Monetary Policy Response to Tariffs
- The Mutable Geography of Firms’ International Trade
- Estimating Discrete Choice Demand Models with Sparse Market-Product Shocks
- Supply Constraints Do Not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities
- Measuring Climate Transition Risk at the Regional Level with an Application to Community Banks
- Taxation, Compliance, and Clandestine Activities
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
FSB
- FSB announces establishment of the Forum on Cross-border Payments Data
OECD
- Lithuania will need to strengthen fiscal sustainability, tackle labour shortages and foster productivity to address ageing challenges
IMF
- IMF Executive Board completes 7th review of extended arrangement under Ukraine’s EFF
- IMF Executive Board Concludes 2025 Article IV Consultation with Slovak Republic
- Cyprus: IMF staff concluding statement of the 2025 Article IV Mission
- Further IMF publications
- IMF Executive Board Concludes 2025 Article IV Consultation with the Principality of Liechtenstein
- Principality of Liechtenstein Accepts Article VIII Obligations
- Press Briefing Transcript: Julie Kozack, Director, Communications Department, March 27, 2025
- IMF Managing Director Establishes Advisory Council on Entrepreneurship and Growth
- Accounting: More Than Just Numbers on a Page
- Reinvigorating Global Growth through Productivity Reforms
- Working Paper No. 2025/060 : Privacy Technologies & The Digital Economy
- Working Paper No. 2025/059 : Fiscal Determinants of Domestic Sovereign Bond Yields in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
- Working Paper No. 2025/057 : Covered Interest Parity in Emerging Markets: Measurement and Drivers
- Working Paper No. 2025/058 : Monetary Shocks and Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Job Vacancy Postings
- Working Paper No. 2025/055 : Lost Generations? Fertility and Economic Growth in Europe
- Working Paper No. 2025/056 : Could Digital Currencies Lead to the Disappearance of Cash from the Market?
GERMANY
- Further publications by Deutsche Bundesbank
- Modeling the term structure | Discussion paper 07/2025: Christoph Memmel, Lotta Heckmann-Draisbach
UNITED STATES
- U.S. President Executive Order: Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account
- Further publications by the U.S. Federal Reserve
- Agencies announce intent to rescind 2023 Community Reinvestment Act final rule
- Speech by Governor Barr on small business lending
- FinCEN Provides Responses to Frequently Asked Questions on Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order
CHINA
- China willing to expand all-round cooperation with ADB: Chinese premier
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