The ECB Governing Council has announced its first QE programme, as it has decided to purchase EUR60bn of public and private assets per month.
Very importantly, the ECB purchases will be open-ended as they 'are intended to be carried out until end-September 2016 and will in any case be conducted until we see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation'.
The purchases will start in March and run at least until September 2016. This implies purchases of around EUR1,100bn in total.
The average pace of ABSPP and CBPP3 is EUR12bn per month since the programmes were launched. Hence, this leaves around EUR50bn to be split between sovereigns and agencies and the total amount of purchases will be around EUR900bn.
The purchases will be made according to the capital key. Additionally, 'with regard to the sharing of hypothetical losses, the Governing Council decided that purchases of securities of European institutions (which will be 12% of the additional asset purchases and which will be purchased by NCBs) will be subject to loss sharing. The rest of the NCBs' additional asset purchases will not be subject to loss sharing. The ECB will hold 8% of the additional asset purchases. This implies that 20% of the additional asset purchases will be subject to a regime of risk sharing.'
Furthermore, the pricing on the six remaining TLTRO operations was lowered by 10bp to the MRO rate.
Overall, this was a very dovish introductory statement from Mario Draghi.
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