This report presents the main results of the 40th round of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE) in the ...

The theme of this COP is “Taking Action for Nature’’. We have talked about the need for action for long enough. Now we need ...

Firms reported a further net tightening of bank loan interest rates and other loan conditions related to price and non-price ...

The adoption of the regulation will make it possible to complete the rulebook with the technical rules necessary for the ...

The microdata underlying the aggregate results are available in the Data and methodological information section of the ECB ...

The ECB injects liquidity through its refinancing operations (currently the main refinancing operations and the longer-term ...

Despite a sharp rise in energy prices in early 2026, the euro area economy has proved resilient. This blog examines how ...

The digital euro will bring the benefits of cash into the digital age: a secure form of public money that protects privacy, accepted across the euro area, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone ...

Notes: For assets, a positive (negative) number indicates net purchases (sales) of non-euro area instruments by euro area investors. For liabilities, a positive (negative) number indicates net sales ...

Has food inflation lost its bite? In this blog we explain why food inflation has fallen sharply, why new pressures are ...

The AI investment boom in the United States is increasingly funded via private credit – loans extended outside of the banking sector – and corporate bonds. It remains to be seen whether the AI firms ...