Investors have been wondering whether the ECB was once again helping keep a yield on Italian bond yields since mid-January, when an unfolding government crisis only spurred a muted market reaction.
The ECB bought 18.1 billion euros of Italian debt over the last two months under its pandemic-fighting programme plus an additional 3 billion euros under its regular stimulus scheme.
Bankers have said that the travel restrictions due to the pandemic have made it harder to shift staff to new locations, but EU regulators are running out of patience.
"One key issue for our attention is that we have sufficient strategic and risk-management capacity onshore here. We are not there yet, for some banks we are but not for all the banks," Enria said.
8 US gross domestic product data is due later on Thursday to gauge the strength of the world's largest economy as it struggles with the coronavirus pandemic.
ECB Board member Fabio Panetta and Weidmann called for taking climate-related risk into account when conducting monetary policy.
By performing its own analysis of these risks on the basis of rigorous methodologies, the ECB can contribute to the accurate valuation of ... climate-related risks.
Naturally, the focus on credit conditions in the banking system on the one side and the bond markets on the other is consistent with the main methods used by central banks in steering financing conditions.
If favourable financing conditions can be maintained with asset purchase flows that do not exhaust the envelope over the net purchase horizon of the PEPP, the envelope need not be used in full.
More significantly, ECB policymakers are also debating what role climate considerations should play in the institution's multi-trillion euro bond-buying programme.
European Central Bank boss Christine Lagarde said on Thursday the bank was closely watching the euro, which surged 9% last year to above $1.23, its biggest annual gain in four years.
It's a headwind for exporters too as companies in Germany's DAX index derive 70% of their sales outside Europe.
Stocks in the CEE region fell, tracking the decline of their European peers as data showed euro zone business activity shrank in January amid renewed coronavirus lockdowns.
Budapest's index led losses, falling 1.31%. Warsaw lost 0.55%. Bucharest was down 0.41%.
Lagarde said the ECB's forecasts "remain valid" for now, as they took into account lockdowns persisting through the first quarter coupled with a gradual start to vaccinations.