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The Bundesbank: key figures

Employees
Staff	Number

Core staff (full-time equivalents) on 31 December 2009	9,822
Projected number of core staff (full-time equivalents), year-end 2012	9,000

Core staff: future developments

Current projections(*) concerning staff developments within the Deutsche Bundesbank expect the number of core staff to fall to 9,000 by the end of 2012. Compared with the end of 1991, when the Bundesbank employed 16,500 core staff, the 31 December 2009 figure of 9,822 represents a decline of 6,678 employees or 40 %.

Core staff: future developments

31 December 1991: staff accumulation completed following German reunification
31 December 2001: year preceding the structural reform of the Bundesbank

Staff costs
Year	In € million

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 *
31 December 2009
Total (Central Office, Regional Offices, branches and operating units)	9,822
- Central Office	3,517
- Regional Offices	2,720
- Branches and operating units	3,585
* Fulltime base

Locations of the Bundesbank
Positions	Locations
31 December 2009
Total (Central Office, Regional Offices, branches and operating units)	58
- Central Office	1
- Regional Offices	9
- Branches (47) and operating units (1)	48

Development: branches

Target plan: branches

Bundesbank's participating interest in the European Central Bank (ECB)
Positions	Since 1 January 2009
[] Subject to change in the event of a recalculation of the weightings (every five years) or if new members join the ESCB.*
Share in subscribed capital [*]	18.9373 %
Share in paid-up capital	27.1341 %
Amount of paid-up capital	€1.09 billion
Foreign reserve assets transferred to the ECB	€10.91 billion

Annual accounts
Positions	2008 in € billion	2009 in € billion

Profit for the year	6.261	4.147
Net interest income	8.429	4.156
Balance sheet total	612.563	588.043

Reserve assets
Positions	In € billion
31 December 2009
Total	125.5
- of which, foreign currency	25.6
- of which, gold (3,407 t)	83.9
- of which, receivables from the IMF	16.0

Money market transactions (main refinancing operations)
Positions	2008	2009
[] daily average.*
Banks participating in the Eurosystem (average)	443	404
- of which, using the Deutsche Bundesbank as an intermediary	316	288
Amount outstanding for main refinancing operations in the euro area [*]	€203 billion	€152 billion
- of whom, Deutsche Bundesbank counterparties	€78 billion	€61 billion

Cash payments
Positions	Amount

Volume of euro banknotes in circulation (in Eurosystem) on 31 December 2009	€806.4 billion
Volume of euro coins in circulation (in Eurosystem) on 31 December 2009	€21.3 billion
Information on unreturned Deutsche Mark banknotes and coins	pdf-file
Number of DM/euro exchanges in 2009	321,500
Value of DM/euro exchanges in 2009	DM162,8 million
Average amount per DM/euro exchange in 2009	Approx DM500
Number of DM/euro exchanges per business day in 2009	Approx 1,300

Incidence of counterfeit money in Germany
Period	Euro banknotes	*Per 10,000 inhabitants[]**	Euro coins
[] Annualised.*
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

Cashless payments
Positions	2009
[] In 2009, TARGET2-BBk accounted approx 50% of payments processed by the EU-wide TARGET system.*
Payments via the Deutsche Bundesbank (in millions of transactions)	2,634.4
Payments via the Deutsche Bundesbank (in € trillion)	176
- via RPS (Germany) - in millions of payments	2,575.0
- via RPS (Germany) - in € billion	2,261
- via RPS (Germany) - per business day	10,300,000
- via RPS (cross-border) - in millions of payments	3.6
- via RPS (cross-border ) - in € billion	5
- via RPS (cross-border) RPS - per business day	14,200
- via RPS (SEPA area) in millions of payments	7.0
- via RPS (SEPA area) in € billion	29
- via RPS (SEPA area) - per business day	28,000
- via TARGET2-BBk (Germany) -in millions of payments [*]	34.3
- via TARGET2-BBk (Germany)- in € trillion	115
- via TARGET2-BBk(Germany) - per business day	134,000
- via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) - in millions of payments	10.4
- via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) in € trillion	56
- via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) - per business day	40,600

Statistics from selected Deutsche Bundesbank publications in the field of economics/research (2009)
Publications	Number per year	Ø Number of copies

Monthly Report	12	16,700
Statistical Supplements	52	2,750
Annual Report	1	20,000
Financial Stability Report	1	17,800
Research Centre Discussion Papers	50	324
Publications in academic journals / books 2009	51	No data available

Banking supervision
Positions	2009
1) Since 2009, quarterly reports only.
Number of institutions to be supervised	3,589
Audits of banking operations	223
Number of monthly returns processed	30,291
Number of audit reports processed	6,328
Own Funds Principle (Principle I / Solvency Regulation) reports¹⁾	8,684
Liquidity Principle (Principle II / Liquidity Regulation) reports	26,052
Meetings with senior management	3,051

Cooperation with foreign central banks
Positions	2009

Training and advisory events	309
Number of participants in training and advisory events	3,557
Participating countries	99

External communications/public relations
Positions	2009

Visitors to the Money Museum	38,781
Written answers to queries	15,732
Visits to the website (www.bundesbank.de)	7,120,987
Total volume of educational material for schools (2008)	150,000
Press releases	59
Press releases to Federal securities	233
Training sessions on counterfeit prevention (2009)	1,200
Number of participants in training sessions on counterfeit prevention (2009)	25,000

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