The European Central Bank will begin a fresh round of checks on banks that it supervises as concerns intensify over loan quality in the private credit sector, according to people familiar with the matter.

The European Central Bank is probing to what extent banks are financing investments in significant risk transfers, highlighting how the region’s top regulator is growing increasingly wary about a potentially circular effect of the deals.

French banks had about €60.8 billion ($69.9 billion) in direct exposures to counterparties located in the Middle East at the end of last year, according to the European Union’s banking regulator.

The European Central Bank is asking lenders about fallout from the Iran war on their operations and clients, according to people familiar with the matter.

The European Central Bank is asking lenders about fallout from the Iran war on their operations and clients, according to people familiar with the matter.

The European Central Bank is probing the use of leverage underpinning banks’ fast-growing significant risk transfer market, according to people familiar with the matter.

The European Central Bank is probing the use of leverage underpinning banks’ fast-growing significant risk transfer market, according to people familiar with the matter.

Germany’s government dismissed a potential hostile takeover of Commerzbank AG by UniCredit SpA as “unacceptable” after the Italian lender made a €35 billion ($40 billion) bid for the Frankfurt-based bank.

A top European Central Bank official said lenders from the region expect to benefit as artificial intelligence shakes up their business models.

A top European Central Bank official said lenders from the region expect to benefit as artificial intelligence shakes up their business models.

European Central Bank staff added their support to a controversial call for more centralized supervision of the European Union’s largest asset managers as the bloc seeks to deepen its capital markets.

The European Union’s drive for deeper capital markets needs to look beyond discussions of potential mergers between exchanges, said a top Deutsche Boerse AG executive.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the reform of the European Union’s capital markets is key to reviving the bloc’s ability to compete with other parts of the world.

Europe’s top markets regulator said she is trying to ease the cost and effort required for hedge funds and private credit firms to comply with new rules which will require them to hand over more data to authorities.

European Union plans to simplify bank rules must make future capital needs clear and avoid fixation on subordinated debt, a top watchdog said.

The European Central Bank said it will intensify how it monitors significant risk transfers as it speeds up approvals for some of the deals.

The European Central Bank has identified significant deficiencies in risk models of top Swedish lenders SEB AB and Swedbank AB for their operations in Baltic countries, according to people familiar with the matter.

German insurers are the most exposed in Europe to illiquid corporate bonds, a top watchdog said in one of the most detailed reports to date on the industry’s investments in private credit.

Investors in a key piece of bank capital were left puzzled after the European Central Bank proposed changing the market without explaining how.

The European Central Bank will enact a raft of changes next year to make its supervision of lenders more effective and reduce costs for the industry.