ECB
Some stories require a subscription to access the full source article.
Regulators free up $500bn capital for lenders to fight virus storm
By Martin Arnold
April 5, 2020, Financial Times
Financial regulators have freed up about $500bn of capital for lenders around the world to help them absorb the impact of the …
Read More →
ECB Takes Emergency Action and Unveils Bond-Buying Program
Jim Reid, global head of fundamental credit strategy at Deutsche Bank, examines the 750 billion-euro debt-buying plan announced by the European Central Bank. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”…
Read More →
ECB Mulls Revisiting its QE Limits
ECB policy makers are saying they will consider revising quantitative easing limits and are looking at a 750 billion-euro Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program. Bloomberg’s Rosalind Mathieson reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: …
Read More →
BlackRock’s Rieder Says Fed Liquidity Injection ‘Awe Inspiring’
Rick Rieder, global fixed income chief investment officer at BlackRock, discusses the impact of the Federal Reserve’s liquidity injection on the U.S. financial system. He speaks with Atlas Merchant Capital’s …
Read More →
ECB’s Visco on Coronavirus, Policy Measures, Italian Bond Yields
Bank of Italy Governor and European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco discusses the ECB’s monetary policy measures to counteract the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Visco also comments …
Read More →
Global watchdog defers bank capital rules to 2023 due to epidemic
By Huw Jones
March 27, 2020, Reuters
Global banking regulators said on Friday they will give banks an extra year to implement pending capital rules in order for them to …
Read More →
ECB tells euro zone banks to skip payouts as virus hits economy
By Huw Jones and Francesco Canepa
March 27, 2020, Reuters
The European Central Bank told euro zone banks on Friday to skip dividend payments and share buybacks until October at …
Read More →
Non-bank lenders will bear brunt of credit crisis
March 24, 2020, Financial Times
Regulators scrambled to strengthen the banking system after the 2008 financial crisis. That made banks safer but their actions pushed the risk of rising defaults …
Read More →
Global bank watchdogs in accounting rule talks to limit loan losses
By Jesus Agado and Huw Jones
March 20, 2020, Reuters
Global regulators discussed on Friday whether to ease an accounting rule to avoid banks facing huge provisions for loans to …
Read More →
Cryptocurrency Regulation: A Conflicting Yet Converging Future
By Adrian Whelan, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
The global policy debate around cryptocurrencies is intensifying along two separate, but often contradictory avenues. Global …
Read More →