European Central Bank (ECB)

354 results about this entity

Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 06 Oct 2025

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European banks face extreme threat from climate risks - ECB stress test results

The European Central Bank (ECB) today published the results of its economy-wide climate stress test.

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ECB told to fix crisis management, comms and disaster recovery after Target2 outage

A Deloitte review of an extended Target2 outage last year identifies crisis management as a key failure in the recovery efforts of the European Central Bank.

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Estonian central bank talks up digital euro experiment results

A blockchain-based digital euro could in theory support almost unlimited numbers of payments being processed at the same time with a very large money supply and with a smaller carbon footprint than the card payment system, concludes Estonia's central bank following an experiment with the ECB.

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European Central Bank green lights digital euro investigation

The European Central Bank is to begin a two-year investigation into the prospects for launching a digital euro.

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Joint ECB/ESRB report shows uneven impacts of climate change for the EU financial sector

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) today published a joint report that takes a closer look at how a broadened set of climate change drivers affects millions of global firms and thousands of financial firms in the European Union (EU).

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BBVA exec questions digital euro

A BBVA executive has raised concerns about any potential digital euro, questioning what customer demand it would meet and warning that it would have to allow private players to develop related business models.

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Work on cross-currency instant payments in TIPS moves forward

The European Central Bank (ECB) and Sveriges Riksbank continue investigating how TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) could support the settlement of instant payments between the euro and the Swedish krona.

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TIPS: recent developments

TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) is a market infrastructure service launched by the Eurosystem in November 2018.

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ECB exec savages banks over climate risk inertia

A European Central bank executive has launched a withering attack on the lack of progress by banks in tackling climate risks.

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Cash is still king in times of Covid-19 - ECB's Panetta

Covid-19 may have sped up the digitisation of Europe's economy, but this does not spell the end for cash, according to ECB executive board member Fabio Panetta, who says that the Eurosystem will safeguard physical money, even if a digital euro is launched.

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European Central Bank castigates banks over instant payment fees

The European Central Bank has warned that the charges levied by banks for instant payments are proving a barrier to uptake and "must change".

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ECB board member Panetta calls for global accord for sustainable finance

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest decrease in global economic activity on record. But the drop in carbon dioxide emissions has been only temporary.