Central bankers

In his last interview as a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, French economist Benoit Coeure said that helping keep Greece in the euro was one of the highlights of his eight-year stint at the ECB.

Australia has stopped printing bank notes for the first time in a century after workers employed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) took a lead from the bank's governor and went on strike for a bigger wage rise.

China’s Central Bank will be more active in deploying macroeconomic controls and fending off financial risks, its governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, said on Dec. 11.

According to financial newspaper ‘Wall Street Journal’, the new quantitative easing measures announced Thursday by European Central bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi are opposed by the German central bank, Bundesbank. The paper cites a source from the German bank as saying that the new round of money printing will create a vicious circle of high expectations and disappointments in the market.

21-year-old German philosophy student/activist Josephine Markmann, who goes by the pseudonym Josephine Witt, interrupted the European Central Bank (ECB) press conference by jumping on a table, throwing confetti over ECB Chief Mario Draghi while shouting an "end to ECB dictatorship" that was spelt on her T-shirt as "dicktatorship".

By Jeff Black

Inside the five-month-old union between monetary policy and financial oversight at the European Central Bank, nerves are beginning to fray.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi aren't blinking yet.
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The European Central Bank is embarking on a new policy phase with its latest stimulus measures, ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio said, promising to steer the central bank's balance sheet "significantly higher".

The European Central Bank has moved towards a «quantitative easing philosophy» but should not automatically use its remaining policy tools right away, Governing Council member Jens Weidmann said.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is set to push the ECB to buy junk-rated Greek and Cypriot bank loans, a move that may increase tensions between Germany and the bank, the Financial Times reported.