Open market operations
We use open market operations to steer interest rates, to manage the amount of liquidity in the financial system and to signal our monetary policy stance. Our regular open market operations consist of one-week liquidity-providing operations in euro (main refinancing operations, or MROs) and three-month liquidity-providing operations in euro (longer-term refinancing operations, or LTROs).
Non-regular open market operations
In recent years, the regular operations have been complemented by longer-term refinancing operations in euro with maturities of up to four years, as well as by US dollar liquidity-providing operations.
PELTROs – pandemic emergency longer-term refinancing operations – On 30 April 2020 the ECB’s Governing Council decided to conduct a series of seven PELTROs to provide liquidity support to the euro area financial system and ensure smooth money market conditions during the pandemic. On 10 December 2020 the Governing Council decided to offer a series of four additional PELTROs in 2021 to serve as a liquidity backstop to preserve the smooth functioning of the money market.
TLTROs - targeted longer-term refinancing operations - These are operations that provide financing to credit institutions for periods of up to four years. They offer long-term funding at attractive conditions to credit institutions in order to further ease private sector credit conditions and stimulate bank lending to the real economy.
APP - asset purchase programme - While outright asset purchases have been implemented since 2009 under several programmes, the APP was launched in October 2014 with the aim of fulfilling the ECB’s price stability mandate. Net asset purchases under the APP ended as of July 2022. Principal payments from maturing securities purchased under it are being reinvested in full.
PEPP - pandemic emergency purchase programme - On 18 March 2020 the Governing Council announced the PEPP with an envelope of €750 billion. This was increased to €1.85 trillion in December 2020. The programme was designed as a response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency to address the unprecedented situation faced by our monetary union. Net asset purchases under the PEPP ended as of April 2022. Principal payments from maturing securities purchased under it are being reinvested in full.
"Ad hoc" communications related to monetary policy implementation| Ref. | Type | Operation subcategory | Settlement date | Maturity date | Days | Allotted amount | Outstanding amount | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20230018 | MRO | 01/02/2023 | 08/02/2023 | 7 | 0.78 bn | |||||
| 20230016 | LTRO | 26/01/2023 | 27/04/2023 | 91 | 0.78 bn | 0.78 bn | ||||
| 20220156 | LTRO | 22/12/2022 | 30/03/2023 | 98 | 1.29 bn | 1.29 bn | ||||
| 20220141 | LTRO | 01/12/2022 | 23/02/2023 | 84 | 1 bn | 1 bn | ||||
| 20210155 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 22/12/2021 | 18/12/2024 | 1092 | 51.97 bn | 44.27 bn | |||
| 20210119 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 29/09/2021 | 25/09/2024 | 1092 | 97.57 bn | 91.12 bn | |||
| 20210078 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 24/06/2021 | 26/06/2024 | 1098 | 109.83 bn | 76.76 bn | |||
| 20210034 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 24/03/2021 | 27/03/2024 | 1099 | 330.5 bn | 290.48 bn | |||
| 20200248 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 16/12/2020 | 20/12/2023 | 1099 | 50.41 bn | 46.2 bn | |||
| 20200207 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 30/09/2020 | 27/09/2023 | 1092 | 174.46 bn | 92.01 bn | |||
| 20200131 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 24/06/2020 | 28/06/2023 | 1099 | 1308.43 bn | 579 bn | |||
| 20200029 | LTRO | TLTRO III | 25/03/2020 | 29/03/2023 | 1099 | 114.98 bn | 35.05 bn | |||
| 1) MRO = Main Refinancing Operations, LTRO = Long Term Refinancing Operations, OT = other type of operation | ||||||||||
| Instrument | Outstanding amount1 (EUR millions) | |
|---|---|---|
| Securities markets programme | 2,860 | |
| Covered bonds purchase programme 3 | 303,065 | |
| Asset-backed securities purchase programme | 22,654 | |
| Public sector purchase programme | 2,589,221 | |
| Corporate sector purchase programme | 344,130 | |
| Pandemic emergency purchase programme | 1,684,911 | |
| 1 At amortised cost | ||
| See Asset purchases programmes for more information | ||
Calendars
Please refer to the ad hoc communications for the latest information on schedules.