Christine Lagarde resigns from the European Central Bank

Christine Lagarde has resigned as president of the European Central Bank. The resignation was reported on Thursday. She is the head of the bank named in the reports. The institution is the European Central Bank.

A Reuters account, carried in a Thursday briefing, said she announced a scheduled resignation on February 7, 2027. That is the departure date given. No successor was named in that account. The announcement is the political and financial fact of the day.

The bank is the euro area's central bank. Lagarde is its president. The reported end of her term in the job is February 7, 2027. The reports do not, in the accounts used here, name an interim president.

The same briefing quoted her as saying she was leaving an institution fit for the future, and that she left with a sense of good work done. That is the statement attached to the announcement. It is reported as her own wording. No further remarks were included in the summary used here.

The office is the presidency of the European Central Bank. The person leaving it is Christine Lagarde. The timing in the Reuters account is a scheduled date, not a same-day exit. The date is February 7, 2027.

The recorded decision is her resignation. The recorded date is February 7, 2027. The recorded institution is the European Central Bank. No replacement is named in these reports.