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Portugal seeks bailout, Trichet confident rate hike will only help
Portugal seeks financial assistance from Brussels; European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet says rate hike will help build confidence in stricken sovereign
Risk Europe: Tension between the ESRB and ECB, says Belgium's Reynders
Europe's new systemic risk watchdog is already clashing with the ECB - but the ESRB's powers may need to be expanded, says Belgian finance minister, Didier Reynders
Europe’s future hinges on member states’ commitment to EMU: Trichet
European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet says tackling monetary union issues will determine historical trajectory of Europe
Wellink challenges ECB bond purchase programme
Netherlands Bank governor Nout Wellink calls for reduction of European Central Bank support in bond markets
Russia and ECB complete co-operation programme
ECB announces the completion of a co-operation programme with the Bank of Russia, designed to improve banking supervision and internal audit in the country
Bini Smaghi on growth benefits of larger bank capital
European Central Bank executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi says higher capital buffers essential to growth objective
Geopolitical factors won’t stop ECB rate hike, say analysts
Analysts expect the European Central Bank to raise interest rates at the upcoming monetary policy meeting, despite fears events in Japan and the Middle East may offset the global recovery
Periphery and inflation offer headaches for the Eurozone, says Credit Institute panel
Participants on a Credit Institute panel debate held in London argued that peripheral funding and inflation are the major challenges for the Eurozone
Bank of Finland reports €283 million profit
Bank of Finland experiences fall in profits as funds transferred to risk provision rise; central bank's governing body redirects increasing share of profits to government
Trichet urges rules-based approach to excessive deficit reforms
European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet calls for use of strict rules to adhere to excessive deficit reduction procedure
ECB opines on how euro crisis facility should work
European Central Bank proposes IMF involvement in order to ensure facility does not promote moral hazard
ECB paper on EMU governance reforms
European Central Bank study says Van Rompuy Task Force proposals are essential to euro area governance framework
ECB’s Bini Smaghi proposes single eurozone bond issuing agency
European Central Bank executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi backs proposals for single eurozone government bond issuer; says agency could pave the way for a single European bond
Liikanen gets nod for second term at Bank of Finland
Finnish President Tarja Halonen reappoints Bank of Finland governor Erkki Liikanen for second term; Liikanen seen as still in race for European Central Bank presidency
ECB should beef up research department, look outside the EU, external review says
Independent review of the European Central Bank’s directorate general of research says central bank should expand department to meet heightened post-crisis demand
ECB paper on firm price adjustment behaviour
European Central Bank study examines firms’ price adjustment behaviour to demand and cost shocks
Buba’s Weber to return to academia
Bundesbank president Axel Weber to teach at University of Chicago in June following departure from central bank
Firms’ choice in price-reviewing strategies explained: ECB paper
European Central Bank working paper analyses why and how firms pick their price-reviewing strategies
ECB’s Bini Smaghi on economics’ interpretation of globalisation
European Central Bank executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi calls for further studies to global growth implications of emerging market economies
ECB rejects temporary price pressures argument; signals tightening
European Central Bank’s hawkish Thursday announcement shows a different interpretation of commodity price pressures, second-round effects, to Bank of England and Fed
ECB paper on credit card users under binding constraints
European Central Bank shows credit card users are insensitive to interest rate rises on transactions
Central bank wage cap backfires on Budapest: reports
Hungarian government could be pushed to amend controversial central bank salary cap as problems mount in finding suitable external rate-setters
ECB’s González-Páramo calls on central banks to reinvent risk strategies
European Central Bank executive board member José Manuel González-Páramo says central banks must re-think their risk management framework; moots new toolkit
EBA to launch new stress tests
European Banking Authority unveils timeline for second round of EU-wide stress tests with launch set for Friday; first executive director and internal committee named