Exchange of letters between the Governor and the Chancellor on the Asset Purchase Facility – May 2026

Letter from the Governor

The company has shed more than $800 billion in market value from its $2.67 trillion peak in less than a month.

Interview with Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Élisabeth Montaufray-Bureau on 10 July 2026 15 July 2026 What is your view on last Thursday’s vote by the European Parliament to back the digital euro? It was a very important step because the Parliament represents Europe’s citizens and its endorsement…

‘The future of the finance ministry unpacked’ webinar: (clockwise from L-R) Dorothée Rouzet (France), John McCarthy (Ireland), Ian Hall (Global Government Finance editor – moderator), Valentina Ion (Microsoft – knowledge partner), Chidozie Ofoego (Bermuda) & Carlos Guberman (Argentina) Under pressure on multiple fronts, finance ministries can use data and AI to write the public finance…

Intensifying climate change makes protection against natural disaster risk – either through ex ante insurance or ex post aid – a first-order public policy issue. Flood risk protection in the U.S. traditionally featured ex post aid through FEMA and heavily subsidized insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In an effort to correct subsidy-induced…

Chinese tech company Baidu, best known for its search engine, also operates cloud, mapping and other internet-based services. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu rose Thursday on their partnership with Apple for deploying their AI tools. Hong-Kong listed shares of Alibaba rose 5% after the company confirmed…