February 2026: SUERF Policy Brief – The hidden maturity of non-maturing deposits: How Banks model it

by Lara Coulier, Cosimo Pancaro, Livia Pancotto & Alessio Reghezza How do banks manage the behavioural maturity of non-maturing deposits (NMDs)? Although NMDs are contractually floating-rate liabilities with zero maturity, banks allocate them across different maturity buckets using models that reflect past depositor behaviour. Notably, only 20% of NMDs are treated as having zero maturity,[…]

February 2026: SUERF Policy Brief – How foreign demand for safety creates instability

by Madalen Castells-Jauregui, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Björn Richter & Victoria Vanasco Our study documents the central role of the foreign sector in the market for safety and explores its macroeconomic implications. Using new data for advanced economies since 1980, we show that foreign demand for safe assets has steadily increased, and that is has been mainly[…]

December 2025: Integrating contagion risk into the 2025 EU-wide stress test: a system-wide analysis with amplification effects between banks and non-banks

Published as part of the Macroprudential Bulletin 32Prepared by Alberto Grassi, Michael Kosiahn, Chiara Lelli, María Losa Martín, Michael Moers, Matthias Sydow, Michael Vincent and Garbrand Wiersema “This article expands on the 2025 EU-wide stress test by incorporating a system-wide perspective to capture contagion risks across investment funds and insurance corporations alongside the banking sector.[…]

December 2025: New Financial Stability Review

by the European Central Bank The Financial Stability Review provides an overview of potential risks to financial stability in the euro area. It aims to promote awareness in the financial industry and among the public of euro area financial stability issues. It is published twice a year, with the next release set for 27 May[…]

November 2025: Central Bank Access and Flight to Safety

Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS)by Lucia Gurrieri, Chase Ross, Ben Schmiedt, Alexandros P. Vardoulakis, and Vladimir Yankov We examine whether access to the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reverse Repo Facility (ON RRP) affects money market fund flows during flight-to-safety episodes. We find that funds with ON RRP access serving sophisticated investors experience about a 1[…]

November 2025: Why banks pay you loss-making deposit rates (sometimes), and why monetary policy transmission is heterogeneous

SUERF Policy Briefby Christoph Basten & Ragnar Juelsrud Changes in monetary policy rates are passed through to deposit rates incompletely, reducing the attractiveness to bank clients of deposits relative to assets with higher pass-through after policy rate hikes. This reduces deposit growth and, with deposits as primary refinancing, loan growth following monetary tightening, which supports[…]