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ECB fines JPMorgan’s European arm 12.2 million euros for misreporting capital requirements

[FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank fined JPMorgan’s European arm 12.18 million euros (S$18.2 million) for misreporting capital requirements after it wrongly calculated risk-weighted assets, the ECB...

Christine Lagarde’s non-renewable term at the ECB runs until Oct 31, 2027.

ECB President Christine Lagarde expected to leave bank before term expires next year: report

The FT report comes only a week after Bank of France governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that he would step down in June this year

Customers at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics megastore in Milan, Italy, Feb 1, 2026.

Visa-only Games highlights Europe’s payments headache

[MILAN] Anyone trying to buy a souvenir at the official Olympic stores at the Milano Cortina Games will have been exposed to an issue troubling Europe’s policymakers: the dominance of foreign payment ...

ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Thursday that officials consider themselves to be in a “good place”, playing down the euro’s recent rise.

ECB monitoring euro but rally not dramatic: council member

The remarks come less than a day after the central bank left its deposit rate at 2% for a fifth meeting

The ECB is widely expected to hold its deposit rate on Feb 5 and throughout this year, a Reuters survey showed.

Eurozone economic momentum wanes further in January, PMI shows

It is down at 51.3 from 51.5 in December, touching a four-month low

“If the euro appreciates further and further, at some stage this might create of course a certain necessity to react in terms of monetary policy,” says Kocher.

ECB may need fresh rate cut if euro strengthens, says Austrian central bank governor

Recent gains against the US dollar were ‘modest’ and did not require a response, he adds

Klaas Knot, whose stint as head of the Netherlands’ central bank ended last year, leads in the ranking as the next ECB chief.

Knot most likely heir to Lagarde at ECB

Knot was one of the ECB’s most influential officials during his 14 years on the governing council

ECB chief economist Philip Lane expressed confidence in Fed policy and said the euro zone was likely to see a sustained stabilisation of inflation at 2 per cent.

ECB on a steady rate path for now but Fed tussle a risk, chief economist warns

[FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank will not debate any rate change in the near term if the economy stays on course, but new shocks, like a potential deviation by the Federal Reserve from its mandat...

Fed chair Jerome Powell has been threatened with a criminal indictment over comments about the headquarters' renovation.

ECB has no room for complacency as attack on Fed raises risks, Kazaks says

They include a possible financial bubble in AI and China’s aggressive trade policy