The Bundesbank: key figures
- Employees
- Locations of the Bundesbank
- Bundesbank's participating interest in the European Central Bank (ECB)
- Annual accounts
- Reserve assets
- Money market transactions (main refinancing operations)
- Cash payments
- Cashless payments
- Statistics from selected Deutsche Bundesbank publications in the field of economics/research (2012)
- Banking supervision
- Cooperation with foreign central banks
- External communications/public relations
Employees
| Staff | Number |
|---|---|
| Core staff (full-time equivalents) | 9,543 |
2012-12-31
Core staff: future developments
Compared with the end of 1991, when the Bundesbank employed 16,500 core staff, the 31 December 2012 figure of 9,543 represents a decline of 6,957 employees or 42.2 %.
1991-12-31: staff accumulation completed following German reunification
2001-12-31: year preceding the structural reform of the Bundesbank
Staff costs
| Year | In Euro million |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 706 |
| 2011 | 614 |
| 2010 | 622 |
| 2009 | 857 |
| 2008 | 954 |
| 2007 | 825 |
| 2006 | 902 |
| 2005 | 970 |
| 2004 | 935 |
| 2003 | 1,000 |
| 2002 | 1,021 |
Core staff of the Bundesbank
| Positions | Core staff * |
|---|---|
| Total | 9,543 |
| - Central Office | 4,025 |
| - Regional Offices | 2,624 |
| - Branches and operating units | 2,894 |
* Fulltime base
2012-12-31
Locations of the Bundesbank
| Positions | Locations |
|---|---|
| Total | 51 |
| - Central Office | 1 |
| - Regional Offices | 9 |
| - Branches | 41 |
2012-12-31
Development of branches
Bundesbank's participating interest in the European Central Bank (ECB)
| Positions | since 2011-01-01 |
|---|---|
| Share in subscribed capital * | 18.9373% |
| Share in paid-up capital | 27.0647% |
| Amount of paid-up capital ** | €2.04 billion |
| Foreign reserve assets transferred to the ECB | €10.91 billion |
* Subject to change in the event of a recalculation of the weightings (every five years) or if new members join the ESCB.
** Since 2012-12-27
Annual accounts
| Positions | 2011 in € million | 2012 in € million |
|---|---|---|
| Profit for the year | 643 | 664 |
| Net interest income | 4,770 | 8,259 |
| Balance sheet total | 837,643 | 1,025,306 |
Reserve assets
| Positions | In Euro billion |
|---|---|
| Total | 188.6 |
| - of which, foreign currency | 28.8 |
| - of which, receivables from the IMF | 22.3 |
| - of which, gold (3,401 t) - Frankfurt am Main (1.036 t) - New York (1.536 t) - London (445 t) - Paris (374 t) | 132.9 42.0 62.3 18.0 15.2 |
2012-12-31
Money market transactions (main refinancing operations)
| Positions | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|
| Banks participating in the Eurosystem (average) | 192 | 95 |
| - of which, using the Deutsche Bundesbank as an intermediary | 69 | 11 |
| Amount outstanding for main refinancing operations in the euro area * | €160 billion | €98 billion |
| - of whom, Deutsche Bundesbank counterparties | €17 billion | €2 billion |
* daily average
Cash payments
| Positions | Amount |
|---|---|
| Volume of euro banknotes in circulation (in Eurosystem) on 2012-12-31 | €912.6 billion |
| Volume of euro coins in circulation (in Eurosystem) on 2012-12-31 | €23.7 billion |
| Information on unreturned Deutsche Mark banknotes and coins | pdf-file |
| Number of DM/euro exchanges in 2012 | 214,716 |
| Value of DM/euro exchanges in 2012 | DM97.5 million |
| Average amount per DM/euro exchange in 2012 | Approx DM450 |
| Number of DM/euro exchanges per business day in 2012 | Approx 855 |
Incidence of counterfeit money in Germany
| Period | Euro banknotes | Per 10,000 inhabitants * | Euro coins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second half of 2012 | 22,500 | 5 | 29,500 |
| First half of 2012 | 19,000 | 5 | 22,500 |
| Second half of 2011 | 20,000 | 5 | 25,200 |
| First half of 2011 | 19,000 | 5 | 27,500 |
| Second half of 2010 | 26,298 | 6 | 33,900 |
| First half of 2010 | 33,654 | 8 | 33,500 |
| Second half of 2009 | 28,216 | 6 | 45,820 |
| First half of 2009 | 24,344 | 6 | 32,868 |
| Second half of 2008 | 20,833 | 5 | 38,722 |
| First half of 2008 | 19,913 | 5 | 41,264 |
| Second half of 2007 | 20,540 | 5 | 42,156 |
| First half of 2007 | 19,664 | 5 | 39,792 |
| Second half of 2006 | 21,039 | 5 | 37,866 |
| First half of 2006 | 25,000 | 6 | 39,000 |
| Second half of 2005 | 34,000 | 8 | 27,900 |
| First half of 2005 | 39,975 | 10 | 18,391 |
* Annualised
Cashless payments
| Positions | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Payments via the Deutsche Bundesbank (in millions of transactions) | 2,866.4 |
| Payments via the Deutsche Bundesbank (in € trillion) | 201 |
| - via RPS (Germany) - in millions of payments | 2,775.5 |
| - via RPS (Germany) - in € billion | 2,360 |
| - via RPS (Germany) - per business day | 11,100,000 |
| - via RPS (cross-border) - in millions of payments | - * |
| - via RPS (cross-border ) - in € billion | - * |
| - via RPS (cross-border) RPS - per business day | - * |
| - via RPS (SEPA area) in millions of payments | 41.5 |
| - via RPS (SEPA area) in € billion | 151 |
| - via RPS (SEPA area) - per business day | 166,000 |
| - via TARGET2-BBk (Germany) -in millions of payments ** | 33.1 |
| - via TARGET2-BBk (Germany)- in € trillion | 140 |
| - via TARGET2-BBk(Germany) - per business day | 129,100 |
| - via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) - in millions of payments | 11.9 |
| - via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) in € trillion | 56 |
| - via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) - per business day | 46,500 |
* The cross-border RPS procedure was discontinued in December 2011.
** In 2012, TARGET2-BBk accounted approx 50% of payments processed by the EU-wide TARGET system
Statistics from selected Deutsche Bundesbank publications in the field of economics/research (2012)
| Publications | Number per year | Ø Number of copies |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Report | 12 | 8,600 |
| Statistical Supplements | 52 | 1,500 |
| Annual Report | 1 | 16,000 |
| Financial Stability Report | 1 | 9,500 |
| Research Centre Discussion Papers | 36 | 300 |
| Publications in academic journals/books 2012 | 47 | - |
Banking supervision
| Positions | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Number of institutions to be supervised | 3,582 |
| Audits of banking operations | 212 |
| Number of monthly returns processed | 29,457 |
| Number of audit reports processed | 5,723 |
| Own Funds Principle (Principle I / Solvency Regulation) reports* | 8,156 |
| Liquidity Principle (Principle II / Liquidity Regulation) reports | 24,468 |
| Meetings with senior management | 2,977 |
* Since 2009, quarterly reports only
Cooperation with foreign central banks
| Positions | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Training and advisory events | 308 |
| Number of participants in training and advisory events | 3,764 |
| Participating countries | 87 |
External communications/public relations
| Positions | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Visitors to the Money Museum | 37,914 |
| Written answers to queries | 16,061 |
| Visits to the website (www.bundesbank.de) | 4,716,951 |
| Press releases | 77 |
| Press releases to Federal securities | 254 |
| Training sessions on counterfeit prevention | 2,200 |
| Number of participants in training sessions on counterfeit prevention | 44,000 |
* As part of the redesign of the Bundesbank’s website in May 2012, a new system for the statistical recording of the number of visitors to the website was introduced.