The BIS Basel Committee has today released its assessment of the EU’s (and the USA’s ) implementation of the Basel III rules on bank capita...

As we predicted might happen , the ECB surprised markets yesterday with the announcement of an interest rate cut and the purchases of priv...

The European Central Bank (ECB) holds its monthly meeting in Frankfurt today - the day after ECB President Mario Draghi's 67th birthda...

In a speech in London yesterday, ECB President Mario Draghi issued a call for new eurozone rules on structural reform. He discussed it at...

Could euro clearing be moved from the City to the eurozone? Tomorrow will see the first hearing of the next in the line of important UK...

For anyone following twitter yesterday around the ECB’s announcement and press conference it would seem as if we have just had another ‘wh...

Over on his Forbes blog Open Europe’s Raoul Ruparel provides a preview for tomorrow’s ECB meeting at which some action to ease monetary pol...

The Bank of Spain released its latest data on the level of bad loans held by Spanish banks today. For the first time since January 2013, the...

Over on his Forbes blog, Open Europe’s Raoul Ruparel asks: is there a bond bubble in peripheral Europe? The thurst of his answer is that, wh...

Portugal this morning followed the lead set by Ireland and Greece and issued new debt for the first time since its bailout in 2011. Por...

Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti may be out of Italian politics, but it's fair to say he still likes to talk - especially whe...

There has been a cacophony of comments from ECB members and ECB watchers over the past few days. However, the overriding view since EC...

This could easily be a standard monthly headline. As before the past four or five ECB meetings, the questions of deflation and further eas...

Over on his new Forbes blog , Open Europe’s Head of Economic Research Raoul Ruparel lays out his take on why the ECB decided to stand firm...

As we noted last month , a lot has been pinned on the March ECB meeting, with the release of new data potentially facilitating further easin...

Hanging up their robes? Ball is now in ECJ's court As has been widely reported this morning there has been some surprising news out ...

This is the front page of Germany’s (and Europe’s) largest  newspaper Bild. The headline reads: “Greeks richer than us! ...But [the...

Friday saw the release of the flash estimate for annual inflation in the eurozone in January. It dropped further to 0.7% - well below the ...

Despite being barely a month into 2014, there have already been countless column inches written about the ECB and President Mario Draghi’s ...