FRANKFURT--The volume of the Eurosystem's balance sheet, a broad measure of risk in the single currency zone, fell further last week to reach its lowest level in nearly a year, as banks continued ...

FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--The balance sheet of the Eurosystem, or euro-zone's 17 national central banks and the European Central Bank combined, decreased slightly in the week ending May 4, data from ...

The consolidated balance sheet of the European Central Bank and the central banks of the 17 countries that use the euro fell at the end of last week as central bank lending to financial ...

The Eurosystem, having purposefully expanded its footprint in recent years, confronts a period of loss-making as rising policy rates lift the remuneration of bank reserves while assets churn more ...

Unfortunately, despite its lack of substantive importance, the idea that the Eurosystem needs to be protected from balance sheet insolvency has featured heavily in discussions of policy options.

This transition, which sharply contrasts with a 2019-21 period of aggressive ECB balance-sheet expansion, ... In the case of Italy where the Eurosystem, via the Banca d’Italia, ...

Maintaining a larger balance sheet would encourage commercial banks to lend more, provide the financial system with a liquidity buffer to cope with future shocks and give the ECB more “headroom ...

The value of Cypriot bonds held by the Eurosystem has decreased to €6.38 billion as the European Central Bank (ECB) continues its balance sheet reduction under its tightening monetary policy.

On a consolidated basis, the Eurosystem’s combined balance sheet follows a similar pattern to the ECB’s. At the beginning of the GFC, the Eurosystem had €1.5 trillion in Total Assets, ...

The controversy in question is that the Eurosystem, that is the European Central Bank and the central banks of the 19 member states, has a fatal flaw: the national central banks can go bankrupt ...

FRANKFURT--Banks in the euro zone have prepaid another EUR5 billion of the three-year loans issued by the European Central Bank in late 2011, reducing the volume of the Eurosystem's balance sheet ...