The European Central Bank will purchase large amounts of public and private debt for at least 18 months and until it is convinced that inflation will stabilize near annual rates of 2%, the bank’s president Mario Draghi said on Monday, underscoring the ECB’s willingness to flood the eurozone with freshly minted money far into the future, The Wall Street Journal reported. In testimony to European parliament, Mr. Draghi also urged Greece to commit to fully honoring its debt obligations.

Allied Irish Banks (AIB) has obtained €9.3 million judgment orders on consent at the Commercial Court against Galway businessmen Tom and John Nestor. The bank also secured orders allowing it to enforce the judgment across the EU, the Irish Times reported. The orders, granted to the bank’s counsel Kelly Smith by Mr Justice Brian Cregan, arises from various facilities advanced by the bank in 2012. Judgment was granted jointly and severally against Tom Nestor, Averard East, Taylor’s Hill, Galway and John Nestor, Gleann na Trá, Sandy Road, Galway.

Steps should be taken to ensure that the euro zone currency bloc could withstand a possible insolvency of one of its members, Germany's Bundesbank said in its monthly report on Monday. "The financial and state debt crisis ... has yet to be overcome," the Bundesbank said in the report, reiterating that individual states and investors should take primary responsibility for their debts.

Small firms in Scotland are at risk of collapse because public bodies are withholding £120 million of debts owed to private construction companies, The National reported. According to research carried out by industry body the Specialist Engineering Contractors (SEC) Group Scotland, “little effort” is being made to ensure secondary or sub-contractors get the same treatment as primary contractors who are paid within 30 days. The primary reason for withholding the cash is to improve the public bodies’ working capital.

Greece’s prime minister and fellow eurozone leaders emerged from a meeting early on Friday morning touting a breakthrough agreement to unlock much-needed bailout funds for Athens — only to fall into disagreement hours later about what it all meant, the Financial Times reported. Two days of intensive and occasionally heated negotiations at an EU summit in Brussels amounted to little more than a repeat of talks a month ago between eurozone finance ministers that officials then also hailed as the definitive agreement to get the final bailout review under way.

Market opinion is divided over the importance of proposed German legislation that would effectively force senior bondholders down the credit capital structure when a failing bank is resolved, Reuters reported. "What the lawmakers have done is effectively put in a clause that clarifies the creditor hierarchy for senior debt and sets out clearly that senior debt is below derivatives and structured notes when it comes to resolution," said one debt banker. "It gives a very practical bail-in hierarchy," the banker said.

Beginning next October, corporate reorganization professionals in Britain are going to have do something quite amazing: At the start of a case, they are going to have to estimate what their total fees will be. And if they exceed that amount, they will have to go back to the creditors and obtain further approval, the International New York Times DealBook blog reported. Various proposals have been floated to help rein in costs, like greater judicial oversight and fixed fees, but the British proposal may have hit on an intriguing idea.

Spain's bank restructuring fund (FROB) said late on Wednesday it would not bail out the Spanish affiliate of Andorra's Banca Privada d'Andorra (BPA) Banco Madrid, clearing the way for insolvency proceedings at the lender, Reuters reported. FROB, the state-funded vehicle which bailed out several Spanish banks during the height of the financial crisis in 2012, said the lender's problems did not pose a systemic risk which warranted the use of public funds. Banco Madrid began bankruptcy proceedings on Monday after customers rushed to empty accounts in the wake of U.S.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is poised to intervene directly in a deepening rift between Greece and its international creditors, a sign of Berlin’s growing concern that the acrimony threatens the unity of the eurozone, The Wall Street Journal reported. Ms. Merkel and other key leaders are due to talk with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the sidelines of a European Union summit on Thursday night. The chancellor has also invited Mr. Tsipras for face-to-face talks in Berlin on Monday.

Stricken Italian Serie A side Parma were officially declared bankrupt on Thursday, a day after their chairman Giampietro Manenti was arrested in a money-laundering probe, Reuters reported. Parma's players have not been paid all season and it took just 10 minutes for a court to declare the club, rooted to the bottom of the league after finishing sixth last season, bankrupt. They have twice been docked points this season and are more than 100 million euros ($106.65 million) in debt. The court in Parma appointed accountants Angelo Anedda and Alberto Guiotto as receivers.