By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Tuesday that climate change and the green transition increasingly mattered for monetary policy, but that the ECB could not apply a uniform response to climate-related shocks.
5 May 2026
– Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 April 2026 with Stelios Leonidou, Senior...
- Stelios Leonidou, senior official of Cypriot DMO: New benchmark could be either tap of current 10-year bond or longer-dated...
– European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Tuesday that climate and nature risks had become increasingly relevant...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Tuesday that inefficiencies in cross-border payments...
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 April 2026 with Stelios Leonidou, Senior Economic Officer at the Cypriot Public Debt Management Office.
5 May 2026
- Stelios Leonidou, senior official of Cypriot DMO: New benchmark could be either tap of current 10-year bond or longer-dated issue
- Leonidou: Expect roughly one issuance per year going forward
- Leonidou: There is room to prefund part of 2027 financing needs
- Leonidou: Foreign issuance plans remain on hold until global conditions stabilize
- Leonidou: Initial foreign currency issuance would likely be in USD
- Leonidou: No plans for liability management operations in 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 April 2026 with Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets of the Belgian Debt Agency.
30 April 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Belgium may issue a new green bond in 2027, according to Maric Post, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets at the Belgian Debt Agency.
30 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Tuesday that climate change and the green transition increasingly mattered for monetary policy, but that the ECB could not apply a uniform response to climate-related shocks.
5 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Tuesday that climate and nature risks had become increasingly relevant for monetary policy and required deeper, fact-based analysis as the green transition lost momentum and became more politically contested.
5 May 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Tuesday that inefficiencies in cross-border payments are becoming a broader test of whether the global economy can remain interconnected amid rising geopolitical tensions, while urging coordinated reforms at both global and national level.
5 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Monday that a rate hike in June would be warranted if the inflation outlook did not improve markedly by then.
4 May 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 April 2026 with Stelios Leonidou, Senior Economic Officer at the Cypriot Public Debt Management Office.
5 May 2026
- Stelios Leonidou, senior official of Cypriot DMO: New benchmark could be either tap of current 10-year bond or longer-dated issue
- Leonidou: Expect roughly one issuance per year going forward
- Leonidou: There is room to prefund part of 2027 financing needs
- Leonidou: Foreign issuance plans remain on hold until global conditions stabilize
- Leonidou: Initial foreign currency issuance would likely be in USD
- Leonidou: No plans for liability management operations in 2026
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The German Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) allotted a combined €1.476 billion of green Federal securities on Tuesday across two maturities.
5 May 2026
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Austria’s debt management agency, the OeBFA, allotted a combined €1.4375 billion at its auction of two government bond (Bundesanleihen) reopenings on Tuesday.
5 May 2026
As of 5 May 2026
ECB Tone Meter
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Outgoing European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos is not campaigning against former Banco de España Governor Pablo Hernández de Cos for the ECB presidency, but with each successive interview, he sounds less like someone actively supporting him.
4 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Despite the weekend and the May 1 holiday in almost all euro area countries, a third of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council has spoken publicly since President Christine Lagarde’s press conference on Thursday. The message has come across: June is very live.
4 May 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde succeeded with great skill in making Thursday’s hold by the Governing Council sound hawkish and cautious at the same time. She made clear why, absent a favorable turn in the Middle East war, the next serious policy question is likely to be when the ECB tightens, not whether it still needs to.
30 April 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As expected, the European Central Bank did not raise rates on Thursday, but it did not use the announcement of its rate decision to make the hold sound comfortable.
30 April 2026