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Publications

Here you find related publications on banking supervision for download, regulatory documents and information and recommendations of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

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Basel II

Here you find consultative papers and accompanying documents as well as current working papers of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for download.

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Directives and national laws

On the Bundesbank website, EU Directives are only available in German. Englisch and other language versions can be found on the EUR-Lex website.

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National regulations

Here you find downloads on Reports Regulation, Holder Control Regulation and implementation of the Acquisition Directive, Audit Report Regulation, Accounting Regulation, Regulations concerning payment institutions, Group Financial Statements Transition Regulation, Solvency Regulation and Further National regulations.

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Explanatory Notes

Here you can find downloads on explanatory notes.

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Additional information

Reports concerning bank offices

The annually published Statistics of bank offices have documented developments in the banking sector in Germany since 1953. In addition to the publication of the Statistics of bank offices, a report is published once a year on developments in the network of bank offices in Germany during the previous year.

(in german only)

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Articles from the Monthly Reports

Current articles from the monthly reports of the Deutschen Bundesbank.

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FSI (Financial Soundness Indicators)

In early 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) initiated the Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI) project in response to the financial market crises of the late 1990s. This initiative is an attempt to define, with a maximum of consistency, macroprudential indicators for assessing national financial systems in numerous countries and make them available to the general public.

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