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23 June 2017PRESS RELEASE

ECB recommends amending Article 22 of its Statute

Amending Article 22 of the Statute of the ESCB and of the ECB would provide the Eurosystem with the legal basis to carry out its role as a central bank of issue under the Commission’s legislative proposals for clearing houses.

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22 June 2017ECONOMIC BULLETIN

ECB publishes Economic Bulletin
Issue 4, 2017

The Economic Bulletin presents the economic and monetary information which forms the basis for the Governing Council’s policy decisions.

It is released eight times a year, two weeks after each monetary policy meeting.

Economic Bulletin, Issue 4, 2017

23/06/2017: Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
June 2017
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23/06/2017: ECB recommends amending Article 22 of its Statute
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22/06/2017: ECB to develop a service for the settlement of instant payments
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21/06/2017: Statistics on euro area insurance corporations - Q1 2017
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20/06/2017: Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 16 June 2017
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20/06/2017: Benoît Cœuré: European CCPs after Brexit
Speech by Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Global Financial Markets Association, Frankfurt am Main, 20 June 2017
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19/06/2017: Benoît Cœuré: Introductory remarks
Remarks by Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the High-Level Meeting on Cyber Resilience, Frankfurt am Main, 19 June 2017
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19/06/2017: Sabine Lautenschläger: Cyber resilience – A banking supervisor’s view
Statement by Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the High-Level Meeting on Cyber Resilience, Frankfurt am Main, 19 June 2017
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14/06/2017: Vítor Constâncio: Challenges faced by the European banking sector
Speech by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB at the Risk & Supervision 2017 Conference organised by Associazione Bancaria Italiana, Rome, 14 June 2017
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13/06/2017: Sabine Lautenschläger: Supervising banks - Four priorities
Statement by Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the International Monetary Conference, London, 13 June 2017
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22/06/2017: Peter Praet: Interview with Der Spiegel
Interview with Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Stefan Kaiser on 19 June 2017 and published on 22 June 2017
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12/06/2017: Benoît Cœuré: Interview with Bloomberg
Interview with Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Francine Lacqua on 12 June 2017
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23/05/2017: Benoît Cœuré: Interview with L’Obs
Interview with Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Sophie Fay and Pascal Riché on 15 May, and published on 23 May 2017
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18/05/2017: Benoît Cœuré: Interview with Reuters
Interview with Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Balasz Koranyi and Francesco Canepa, on 17 May 2017, published on 18 May 2017
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11/05/2017: Peter Praet: Interview with Peter Praet for Trends/Tendances
Interview with Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Daan Killemaes and Jasper Vekeman on 4 May 2017 and published on 11 May 2017
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26/06/2017: Letter from the ECB President to Mr Nikolaos Chountis, MEP, on the Greek adjustment programme
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26/06/2017: Letter from the ECB President to Mr Luigi Morgano, MEP, on AnaCredit
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26/06/2017: Letter from the ECB President to several Members of the European Parliament on the expanded asset purchase programme
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23/06/2017: Working paper no. 2082: Financial globalisation, monetary policy spillovers and macro-modelling: tales from 1001 shocks
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23/06/2017: Occasional paper no. 192: Labour market adjustment in Europe during the crisis: microeconomic evidence from the Wage Dynamics Network survey
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22/06/2017: Economic Bulletin Issue 4, 2017
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22/06/2017: Focus: The fiscal compact: the Commission’s review and the way forward
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Economic Bulletin Issue 4, 2017
22/06/2017: Focus: Country-specific recommendations for fiscal policies under the 2017 European Semester
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Economic Bulletin Issue 4, 2017
22/06/2017: Focus: Which sectors sold the government securities purchased by the Eurosystem?
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Economic Bulletin Issue 4, 2017
22/06/2017: Focus: Private sector indebtedness and deleveraging in the euro area countries
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Economic Bulletin Issue 4, 2017

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23/06/2017: Recommendation for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Article 22 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the ECB (ECB/2017/18)
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23/06/2017: Opinion on a law on the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development (CON/2017/26)
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16/06/2017: Opinion on the ownership of a special purpose entity for manufacturing euro banknotes (CON/2017/25)
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12/06/2017: Opinion on the auditing of Banka Slovenije’s business operations (CON/2017/24)
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08/06/2017: Opinion on a new category of debt instruments, new macroprudential tool, the creation of a new category of settlement institution and the exclusion of set-off rights (CON/2017/23)
Belgium,
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23 June 2017STATISTICS

Insights into euro area bank loan statistics

The latest version of the ECB’s “insight into euro area statistics” focuses on the growth of bank loans to euro area corporates and the loan-to-deposit ratio.

euro-area-statistics.org

EXPLAINER

What is money?

Euro banknotes and coins are money but so is the balance on a bank account. What actually is money? How is it created and what is the ECB’s role?

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Interest rates

Marginal lending facility	0.25 %
Main refinancing operations (fixed rate)	0.00 %
Deposit facility	− 0.40 %

Effective from 16 March 2016

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Reference rates

USD	US dollar	1.1187
JPY	Japanese yen	124.93
GBP	Pound sterling	0.87830
CHF	Swiss franc	1.0881

Last update: Monday, 26 June 2017 Euro foreign exchange rates

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Multimedia

Breaking internal barriers for women | Celia de Anca - 12 June 2017
Why we need more diversity to solve complex problems | Scott Page - 12 June 2017
Interview Vítor Constâncio on Financial Stability Review
EU Open Days - May 2017
ECB Press Conference - 27 April 2017
Generation €uro Students' Award 2017
The new €50 banknote is now in circulation
Journey of the new €50
Young Innovators share their views at the ECB
How quantitative easing works
15 years of the euro
The new €50 banknote
Five facts about the new €50
Inside the Asset Purchase Programme
Discover the New €50 Banknote
ECB and the Eurosystem explained in 3 min.

ECB Press Conference - 8 June 2017, Tallinn
EU Open Day in Brussels - 6 May 2017
ECB Open Day for women in technical fields - 04 May 2017
ECB Press Conference - 27 April 2017
The new €50 banknote - 4 April 2017
Generation Euro Students' Award - 4/5 April 2017
Europe's digital integrated market - 31 January 2017
25 November 2016 UN Orange Day
17 October 2016 Cultural Days Opening Concert
3 October 2016 Türen Auf!
Unveiling of the new €50 banknote
Young Economists at ECB Forum on Central Banking
ECB Main Building
Luminale 2016 - ECB's illuminated buildings

Financial integration in Europe
ESCB Legal Conference 2016
The international role of the euro, June 2016
Conference proceedings of the ECB Forum on Central Banking, Sintra 2016: The Future of the international monetary and financial architecture
Legal framework of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks. ECB legal acts and instruments
Statistics for Economic and Monetary Union. Enhancements and new directions, 2003-12, by Peter Bull
The monetary policy of the ECB
The payment system – payments, securities and derivatives, and the role of the Eurosystem in this field