European Central Bank (ECB)

333 results about this entity

Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 19 Dec 2024

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Banks failing to tackle climate risks says ECB

The European Central Bank has uncovered significant shortcomings in the ability of EU banks to adequately cover their exposure to climate-related risk.

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ECB taps ING's Evelien Witlox to lead digital euro programme

The European Central Bank has hired ING's global director of payments, Evelien Witlox, to head up its digital euro programme.

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ECB invites tech experts to join CBDC debate

The European Central Bank is inviting technology experts to take part in online technical talks to explore options for the design of a central bank digital currency.

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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.