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The European Central Bank is pushing Raiffeisen and UniCredit hold some capital as a buffer against potential risks stemming from their Russia businesses, two sources with knowledge of the matter ...
The euro gained 0.4% against the dollar and traded at $1.2153 a few minutes after the ECB left its ultra-easy policy unchanged as expected and kept the door open to more stimulus to tackle the ...
The European Central Bank's promise of hefty monetary stimulus brought buyers flocking back to euro bond markets on Thursday, with Spanish and French auctions seeing reassuring demand and Germany ...
Wim Duisenberg, first President of the ECB. The European Central Bank is the de facto successor of the European Monetary Institute (EMI). [7] The EMI was established at the start of the second stage of the EU's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) to handle the transitional issues of states adopting the euro and prepare for the creation of the ECB and European System of Central Banks (ESCB). [7]
Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) is a program of the European Central Bank under which the bank makes purchases ("outright transactions") in secondary, sovereign bond markets, under certain conditions, of bonds issued by Eurozone member-states.
The following is a list of past and present members of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. A member serves for a non renewable term of eight year. Since the ECB was established in 1998, the following people have served as Executive Board members: [ 2 ]
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ECB board members Axel A. Weber and Jürgen Stark resigned in protest at this policy, even if it helped prevent states from defaulting. IMF economist Pau Rabanal argued that Trichet "maintained a relatively expansionary monetary policy," but even "sacrificed the ECB's inflation target for the sake of greater economic growth and jobs creation ...