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Single Euro Payments Area makes major changes to retail changes
August 1st, 2014
The European Central Bank (ECB) today marks a major milestone in the integration of retail payments in Europe. After 15 years of work, the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) has been successfully implemented for credit transfers and direct debits ...
Euro zone inflation declines to near five-year low in July
July 31st, 2014
Annual inflation in the euro zone fell in July to its lowest since the height of the financial crisis in 2009, keeping the risk of deflation on policymakers’ radar but unlikely to spur the European Central Bank into further ...
Euro touches eight-month low, European shares fall
July 30th, 2014
The euro hit an eight-month trough against the dollar on Wednesday and German bond yields were at record lows ahead of inflation data expected to boost the case for further European Central Bank policy easing. Investors were also awaiting ...
E.C.B. Says It Has Been Hacked in Apparent Blackmail Attempt
July 24th, 2014
The European Central Bank said on Thursday that hackers had broken into an internal database and stolen information about journalists and others, in what appeared to be part of a blackmail scheme. The central bank said that the information ...
Lithuania to join euro area and single supervisory mechanism (SSM) on 1 January 2015
July 23rd, 2014
European Central Bank has issue a press release today about Lithuania to join euro area and single supervisory mechanism (SSM) on 1 January 2015. Conversion rate of the litas is fixed at 3.45280 = EUR 1 Lithuanian banks will ...
CBC «Investment Funds Statistics» Publication
July 21st, 2014
The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) releases today for the first time the quarterly publication “Investment Funds Statistics”, which provides statistical aggregated data concerning Investment Funds (IFs). The data is compiled by the Statistics Department of the CBC, based ...
New sanctions cause Russian shares and rouble to tumble
July 17th, 2014
The United States imposed its toughest sanctions yet on Moscow on Wednesday, and Russian stocks and the rouble tumbled on Thursday. Safe-haven assets such as gold, yen and German bonds rose. The rouble-traded MICEX stock market dropped 2.5 percent ...
Asia follows Wall St. higher, euro probes lows
July 17th, 2014
Asian equities gained on Thursday, lifted by another record-high close on Wall Street, while the euro probed recent lows against the dollar amid speculation the U.S. Federal Reserve is tilting toward tighter monetary policy in light of a stronger ...
Handful of non-EU banks to make European stress tests debut
July 16th, 2014
A handful of global banks are bracing themselves for their first results from Europe’s bank stress-testing regime, which will tell them in October whether they have enough capital to withstand future crises. Banks outside the European Union have traditionally ...
Draghi Says Banks Shouldn’t Count on Another Carry Trade
July 15th, 2014
Banks shouldn’t count on a fresh round of European Central Bank cash to trade sovereign debt and reap big profits, Mario Draghi said. “The convenience to use the ECB cheap money to buy government bonds is much less” than ...
