Fed clears BancFirst to take over SpiritBank in an all-Oklahoma deal
The Board approved BancFirst Corporation's acquisition of Spirit BankCorp and the merger of SpiritBank into BancFirst, with the branch network carried over.
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ECB paper builds an inflation-risk gauge out of newspaper sentences
Working Paper 3288 counts whether press coverage blames inflation on demand or on supply, and relates that tally to inflation risk premia in the euro area and the United States.
Two kinds of price rise, and only one of them is in the forecast
Lane describes an energy shock that a futures curve will eventually unwind. Bruegel describes €2,100 added to a car by rules that will not unwind at all. Central bank projections handle the first and not the second.
RBI publishes its supervisory data quality index for commercial banks
The June 2026 sDQI scores scheduled commercial banks on accuracy, timeliness, completeness and consistency of the returns and microdata they submit for supervision.
The BoJ's real trade series now follows the customs data by one day
From the April 2026 data onward the Bank of Japan releases Developments in Real Exports and Real Imports at 4pm, one business day after the Ministry of Finance's provisional trade statistics.
ECB paper links fragmented capital buffers to weaker corporate lending
Working Paper 3287 builds a bank-level fragmentation index and finds a one standard deviation rise is associated with 36bp more capital headroom and 50bp slower lending growth.
ONS publishes August public finances with a new presentational framework
The 22 September release explains a framework for the headline measures — net borrowing, net cash requirement and net debt — alongside classification updates.
Bruegel: EU local-content rules would add about €2,100 to an electric car
A think tank report argues EU car policy shields producers at consumers' expense, putting EU-made battery cells at €85/kWh against €50 and low-carbon steel at a further €200.
Lane: a second energy wave keeps euro area inflation higher for longer
In an interview with Le Temps the ECB board member says the energy shock will last longer than assumed in March, with inflation falling back towards target from mid-2027.
Jefferson ties discount window modernisation to Treasury market function
The Fed vice chair used the New York Fed's Treasury Market Conference to set out three dimensions of discount window modernisation and the role of Treasuries as collateral.