Bank competitiveness and its role for monetary policy
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Box from Economic Bulletin 7/2026 on bank competitiveness and monetary policy transmission.
Key points
- More competitive banks are more resilient and transmit monetary policy better
- Competitiveness has improved thanks to stronger balance sheets and higher margins, but cost inefficiencies and scale problems persist
- Completing the savings and investments union and facilitating cross-border lending would improve transmission
Who is affected
Banks, monetary policy
Plain-language version
An ECB analysis (the ECB is the euro area's central bank and sets interest rates) finds that more competitive banks cope better with crises and pass rate decisions on to households and firms more effectively. In other words, when the ECB moves rates, the change reaches your mortgage or savings faster. Still, many European banks have high costs and lack scale.
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