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The Deutsche Bundesbank offers a wide range of services to foreign central banks and international institutions wishing to invest their euro-denominated monetary reserves.

1. Correspondent account management and payment services

  • Current account management for payment processing based on a credit balance
  • Remuneration of overnight credit balances
  • Real-time settlement of payments in Euroland via TARGET2

2. Short-term money market investments

  • Agency-based fixed-term deposit investments with counterparties in the market (the Deutsche Bundesbank as an agent)
  • Principal-based fixed-term deposit investments with the Deutsche Bundesbank with maturities between 7 days and 12 calendar months

3. Capital market investments

  • Purchase and sale of securities denominated in euro as instructed by the customer
  • Tradable are all securities in line with the definition of eligible securities in the context of European monetary policy operations

4. Safe custody services

  • Safe custody account management
  • Custodian services for bonds and definitive securities denominated in euro
  • Custodian services for shares of enterprises domiciled in the EU
  • Settlement services in respect of securities which are eligible to be deposited with Clearstream Banking Frankfurt directly or via links with other European CSDs
  • Automatic securities lending

5. Foreign exchange operations

  • Purchase and sale of selected currencies against the euro by prior individual arrangement - Spot trading

6. Subject related seminars

  • Payment systems
  • Reserves management
  • Central banking

Further information you can find at Technical Central Bank Cooperation.

Additional information

Training courses for foreign central bank employees

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Technical Central Bank Cooperation provides training for senior employees of other central banks as well as project consultancy.

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Publications

Pile of publications

Here you can find the terms and conditions, Annual Reports and many other publications concerning TARGET2.

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