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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...