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📣 Quarterly data on euro area insurance corporations for Q4 2025 are now available. Insurance corporations provide insurance and reinsurance services to individuals and companies, offering financial protection against risks in exchange for premiums. 🔎 What do we measure in the statistics? The ECB collects: • balance sheet data (assets and liabilities) of insurance and reinsurance corporations;  • premiums, claims and acquisition expenses; Today’s release focuses on the quarterly balance sheet data for Q4 2025, showing: • what insurers own (assets) • what they owe (liabilities), including commitments to policyholders 📊 Take a look at the charts below to see how total assets and liabilities evolved in Q4 2025. 📌 In Q4 2025: • Total assets amounted to €9,204 billion, €104 billion higher than in Q3 2025. • Insurance technical reserves stood at €6,685 billion, representing 72.6% of total liabilities. 👉 Explore the data on the ECB Data Portal: https://lnkd.in/dURq_YsR #ECB #ECBData #ECBStatistics #InsuranceCorporations

📢 During the 57th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in New York, the SDMX Sponsors Committee met to discuss the SDMX 2030 strategy. 🔎 SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) is an international standard that supports efficient and harmonised data and metadata exchange across institutions. Key priorities include: • Making SDMX AI-ready • Expanding SDMX use cases to better serve data users The European Central Bank was represented by Dominique Durant, ECB Sponsor to SDMX, and Ana Padrão, Chair of the SDMX Secretariat. The ECB supports SDMX as a common standard to enhance collaboration and efficiency across the full statistical data life cycle. 👉 Learn more: www.sdmx.org #ECB #ECBData #SDMX #OfficialStatistics #Standards

📊 How does the Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) support monetary policy? The CES enhances our understanding of consumer behaviour and expectations formation — providing timely insights that inform ECB analysis, policy and communication. 📢 The January 2026 results are now available. 🔎 See the image below for a snapshot of how consumers’ perceptions evolved across key dimensions. Explore the latest results on the ECB Data Portal: https://lnkd.in/ehdKrUT3 More details in the comments 👇 #ECB #ECBData #ConsumerExpectationsSurvey #CES

📢 Monthly government debt securities data at end-January 2026 have just been released. For the first time, the data incorporate Bulgaria in the calculation of euro area aggregates (EA21). 📈 The annual growth rate of the outstanding amounts of euro area governments' debt securities — bonds and bills issued by governments to raise funds — increased to 5.3% in January 2026, compared to 5.0% in December 2025. 📌 Key data highlights on Bulgaria: • Outstanding amount of debt securities issued by the Bulgarian government amounted to 27.8% of GDP in January 2026, one of the lowest in the euro area. • The Bulgarian debt service (i.e. principal and interest) scheduled for the next 12 months is 2.1% of GDP (€2.2 billion), the lowest ratio in the euro area. • The average nominal yield on the outstanding debt securities issued by the Bulgarian government is 3.32%, 0.27 percentage points higher than one year ago and the highest in the euro area. 👉 Dive deeper into government debt securities using the interactive reports on https://lnkd.in/d9GVi68e 👇 Explore the latest monthly government debt securities data (Government Finance Statistics – GFS) via the link in the comments. #ECB #ECBData #DebtSecurities #GovDebtSecurities

📢 HICP methodological updates now in place 🔎 The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), the EU measure of consumer price inflation, is now compiled according to a new classification of goods and services, as well as household consumption patterns. The overall inflation rate remains unchanged. 💡 What has changed? • Compilation under European Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (ECOICOP version 2) • Inclusion of games of chance under recreation services • Reference year updated to 2025 = 100 • Bulgaria included in the euro area aggregate 📊 Curious to explore the data? Explore the ECB’s Inflation Dashboard to see: • Inflation levels across the euro area • The impact of updated consumption categories • Comparisons between euro area and national trends 👉 ECB’s Inflation Dashboard: https://lnkd.in/dZVYhGz3 👇 Want to understand how HICP inflation is calculated? Check out Eurostat’s Statistics4Beginners via the link in the comments. #ECB #ECBData #ECBStatistics #HICP #EuroArea #Inflation

📺 Watch our training on climate-related statistical indicators provided by the staff of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and Eurostat! 🌱 Led by experts from Banca d'Italia, De Nederlandsche Bank, Eurostat, and the European Central Bank, the lectures explore: • The role of climate data in supporting informed decision-making across central banking and financial supervision (Lectures 1–7) • How we collect and compile the data behind  key climate-related indicators (Lectures 8–12) 📖 Whether you’re a policymaker, researcher, or simply passionate about sustainability, this training offers valuable knowledge. 👉 Watch the full lecture series on the YouTube Channel of the European Master in Official Statistics (EMOS):  https://lnkd.in/dnkGQ-uD  #ECB #ESCB #ECBData #ECBTraining #Climateindicators #EMOS

📉 Euro area current account surplus at 1.6% of GDP in 2025 🌐 The euro area current account — which captures transactions between the euro area and the rest of the world — recorded a surplus of 1.6% of GDP in 2025, compared with 2.7% in 2024. 🔍 The current account includes trade in goods and services as well as primary income (such as investment income) and secondary income (such as transfers). It is a key component of the balance of payments and helps assess whether the euro area is a net lender or borrower vis-à-vis the rest of the world. 👉 Read more in the press release: https://lnkd.in/dZDQAzEz #BalanceOfPayments #EuroArea #Economy #DataInsights #ECBStatistics

📢 Euro area listed shares reach record market capitalisation 📊 Monthly Securities Issues Statistics (CSEC) data for the end of January have just been released. They now feature Bulgaria for the very first time as part of the euro area aggregates! 📈 In January 2026, the market capitalisation of listed shares in the euro area reached €11.9 trillion, the highest value observed so far. This follows a remarkable increase by 26% over the past three years. 📌 Key data highlights: • Over the past three years, the market capitalisation of euro area banks has seen a considerable increase of almost 130%. • Among euro area countries, Slovenia and Greece saw the most significant increases, with market capitalisation rising by over 100% compared with three years ago. • This growth was driven almost entirely by price revaluations rather than new share issuances. 👉 Explore the latest Securities Issues Statistics (CSEC) data here: https://lnkd.in/dyNA2qua 👇 Find more details and access the listed shares via the link in the comments. #ECB #ECBData #ECBDataPortal #CSEC #ListedShares #FinancialMarkets #Securities

📢 Long-Term Interest Rate (LTIR) statistics: Bulgaria now included in the euro area aggregate 🏦 The European Central Bank has released the January 2026 LTIR statistics. For the first time, the data incorporate Bulgaria in the calculation of the euro area aggregate. 🔎 LTIR statistics are used to assess long-term interest rate convergence, as defined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. They form an important input to the ECB’s and European Commission’s Convergence Reports, which evaluate compliance with the long-term interest rate criterion. 📌 Key highlights from the January 2026 updates include: • Compared with December 2025, LTIRs decreased in most Member States. The euro area GDP-weighted aggregate declined by 1 basis point to 3.20%, while the EU aggregate stood at 3.50%, 4 basis points lower than the previous month. • Over a one-year horizon, LTIRs in most countries increased compared with January 2025. The euro area and EU figures rose by 16 and 8 basis points, respectively. 👉 Discover the latest insights on the ECB Main Figures page: https://lnkd.in/dXV2wup7 👇 Find more details and access the data via the links in the comments. #ECB #ECBData #InterestRates #EuroArea #Convergence

📊 Check out the latest results of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE) for Q4 2025 The SAFE provides insights into the financial situation of euro area enterprises 🏢, trends in external financing 💶, and firms’ expectations regarding selling prices, costs, employment and inflation 📈. 📌 In the latest SAFE wave firms reported: • A net tightening in bank loan interest rates and other lending conditions • Increasing turnover, while continuing to signal a deterioration in profits • Selling prices, non-labour input costs and wage costs to increase over the next 12 months; inflation expectations were broadly unchanged • The use of artificial intelligence is widespread among euro area firms, though most use it at low to moderate intensity 🔎 Find out more in the press release: https://lnkd.in/eXswh6zw To access the data and for additional information, consult the links in the comments 👇  #ECB #ECBData #SAFE #EnterpriseFinance #SurveyData