Find your bank

ContinetBanks
Africa700+
Asia1000+
Europe2000+
North America5000+
South America150+
Oceania150+

ECB Inevitable Rate Hike

ECB Inevitable Rate Hike

Markets are pricing a rate hike to 2.50% at Thursday’s ECB meeting as close to certain. Eurozone inflation just jumped to 3.3%. Gas storage is running well below normal heading into winter. Here’s the actual mechanism connecting an energy shock thousands of miles away to your mortgage payment and why central bankers keep raising rates […]

Read more
Bond Yields Just Hit Levels Not Seen Since Before 2008, While G20 Leaders Argued Over a Photo

Bond Yields Just Hit Levels Not Seen Since Before 2008, While G20 Leaders Argued Over a Photo

19 of 20 G20 members signed a statement targeting China’s trade surplus. China refused. Russia’s finance minister showed up for the first time since 2022 and got cut from the group photo. Meanwhile, global bond yields hit levels not seen since before 2008. Here’s what actually happened at Asheville, separated from the noise. What Actually […]

Read more
Expect Every Major European Bank to Want the Same Deal Since Deutsche Bank Just Got China's Yuan Clearing Mandate for Europe

Expect Every Major European Bank to Want the Same Deal Since Deutsche Bank Just Got China’s Yuan Clearing Mandate for Europe

On August 11, 2026, the PBOC named Deutsche Bank Europe’s first non-Chinese yuan clearing institution. It’s not actually unprecedented, JPMorgan got the same status in the U.S. back in 2018, and Africa’s version launched two months ago. That pattern is exactly why this one matters it’s a playbook, not an accident, and the rest of […]

Read more

✓ Verified: This entry was personally compiled and reviewed by Milan Ignjatovic using primary sources.

Founder & Sole Curator, Bankinfobook | Master Manager of ICT · Graduated Economist

Last Data Review: August 16, 2025