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Financial integration in Europe rebounds, ECB report finds
April 27th, 2015
Financial integration in the euro area has improved steadily and has reached a level close to that before the sovereign debt crisis Establishment of Banking Union and unconventional monetary policy actions taken by the ECB are major drivers of ...
Deutsche Bank announces next phase of strategy
April 27th, 2015
Reaffirming commitment to being a leading global bank based in Germany Key decisions Deleveraging CB&S to build a more focused investment bank, with planned gross leverage reduction of approximately EUR 200 billion and redeployment of EUR 50-70 billion in ...
EU, US trade negotiators get an earful from critics
April 24th, 2015
Opponents of controversial US-EU trade talks came out swinging at a public comment period Thursday, arguing the emerging agreement was a bad deal for consumers and the environment. Critics of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) included ...
What about the EU Single Market?
April 23rd, 2015
Discussions of the economic situation in Europe and the eurozone during the last few years have a heavy emphasis on government debt and central bank policy. But from the time when the Treaty of Rome back in 1957 created ...
Lifting potential growth in the euro area
April 23rd, 2015
Speech by Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Welt-Währungskonferenz Potential growth and monetary policy The euro area economy seems now to be turning the corner. Both the hard and soft data suggest that ...
Signs the market is girding for a Greek default
April 21st, 2015
If the financial market is a good predictor, you’d better brace for a Greek default. Borrowing costs on Greece’s government bonds have rallied back to levels not seen since 2012, the cost of insuring against a default has surged ...
Grexit Fears Cause GDP Forecasts to Plummet
April 20th, 2015
Economists have severely cut their forecasts for core Greek economic indicators. That reflects growing concern that the debt burden of the southern European country may force an exit from the euro as its creditors grow frustrated with the lack ...
EnterNext launches initiative to create flexible financing solutions for the Dutch and Belgian markets
April 16th, 2015
EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for small and medium sized companies today announced the launch of a commercial solution specifically designed to simplify Dutch small companies’ access to capital and provide a broader ...
Talks will determine ECB’s stance
April 16th, 2015
Frankfurt extends the limit on emergency liquidity assistance for local lenders by another 800 mln euros A few hours after the European Central Bank extended the limit on the cash available to local lenders by another 800 million euros, ...
OPEC Going Broke, Dumping Dollars. Is That Good Or Bad?
April 15th, 2015
When oil prices fell out of bed last winter there was much hand-wringing over the fate of the former beneficiaries of high-priced crude. Trillions of dollars of junk bonds issued by frackers, for instance, might default, oil field services ...
