ECB-Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: fourth quarter of 2023

April 26, 2024--As of April 2024, ECB quarterly financial accounts provide new details on household holdings of investment fund shares/units broken down by underlying asset and counterpart sector. Notably, household exposure to rest of world assets is primarily through indirect holdings via investment fund shares

Euro area net saving increased to €833 billion in four quarters to fourth quarter of 2023, compared with €751 billion one quarter earlier
Household debt-to-income ratio decreased to 87.0% in fourth quarter of 2023 from 92.8% one year earlier

Non-financial corporations' debt-to-GDP ratio (consolidated measure) decreased to 67.1% in fourth quarter of 2023 from 71.6% one year earlier

Ex-Pimco executive plans Europe's first catastrophe-bond ETF

October 29, 2025--King Ridge Capital Advisors is already managing the world's first-ever cat-bond ETF for Brookmont Capital Management.
Europe may soon get its first exchange-traded fund based on catastrophe bonds.
An application to register the ETF was filed in Ireland, according to Rick Pagnani, co-founder and CEO of King Ridge Capital Advisors.

Valour Inc. Launches Sky (SKY) ETP on Spotlight Stock Market, Reaching 100 Listed ETPs

October 22, 2025-100th ETP listed: Valour Sky (SKY) SEK ETP (ISIN CH1108681516) is now live on Sweden's Spotlight Stock Market, marking Valour's one hundredth exchange-traded product across Europe.
What SKY is: SKY is the governance token of the Sky ecosystem, successor to MakerDAO, used to vote on parameters and roadmap decisions for its stablecoin and collateralized lending infrastructure