“To make Europe competitive, together, is the challenge,” Jens Weidmann told the press conference on the 25th anniversary of the Franco-German Financial and Economic Council in Berlin.
On 11 April, Professor Otmar Issing, former ECB chief economist, spoke at the Banken- und Unternehmensabend event organised by the Deutsche Bundesbank's Regional Office in Bavaria.
The President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the President of Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank, Klaas Knot, spoke at the Frankfurt Finance Summit about the future of the euro.
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann at the inaugural meeting of the Financial Stability Committee in Berlin, which marks the beginning of macroprudential oversight in Germany.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published a report analysing the role of the reference interest rates LIBOR and EURIBOR for monetary policy and financial stability.
“Despite significantly higher interest income, there was scarcely any rise in profit owing to a further steep increase in risk provisioning,” explained Jens Weidmann
Executive Board Members Dr Andreas Dombret and Dr Joachim Nagel spoke at a reception in Tokyo to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bundesbank's representative office in Japan.