As announced on Thursday 7 March by the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde (see EUROPE B13367A21), the ECB Governing Council finalised the revision of the operational framework for steering short-term money market rates at its virtual non-monetary policy meeting on Wednesday 13 March.
This review exercise was announced as early as 15 December 2022 in order, according to the ECB, to ensure that the framework remains appropriate in a context where the excess...