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The Bundesbank: key figures

Employees
Staff	Number

Core staff (full-time equivalents) on 31 December 2010	9,743

Core staff: future developments

Compared with the end of 1991, when the Bundesbank employed 16,500 core staff, the 31 December 2010 figure of 9,743 represents a decline of 6,757 employees or 41 %.

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

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 *
31 December 2010
Total (Central Office, Regional Offices, branches and operating units)	9,743
- Central Office	3,797
- Regional Offices	2,579
- Branches and operating units	3,368
* Fulltime base

Locations of the Bundesbank
Positions	Locations
31 December 2010
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.* [*] Since 29 December 2010*
Share in subscribed capital [*]	18.9373 %
Share in paid-up capital	27.1341 %
Amount of paid-up capital [**]	€1.41 billion
Foreign reserve assets transferred to the ECB	€10.91 billion

Annual accounts
Positions	2009 in € billion	2010 in € billion

Profit for the year	4.147	2.206
Net interest income	4.156	3.570
Balance sheet total	588.043	671.259

Reserve assets
Positions	In € billion
31 December 2010
Total	147.5
- of which, foreign currency	28.0
- of which, gold (3,401 t)	115.4
- of which, receivables from the IMF	18.7

Money market transactions (main refinancing operations)
Positions	2009	2010
[] daily average.*
Banks participating in the Eurosystem (average)	404	115
- of which, using the Deutsche Bundesbank as an intermediary	288	32
Amount outstanding for main refinancing operations in the euro area [*]	€152 billion	€132 billion
- of whom, Deutsche Bundesbank counterparties	€61 billion	€51 billion

Cash payments
Positions	Amount

Volume of euro banknotes in circulation (in Eurosystem) on 31 December 2010	€839.74 billion
Volume of euro coins in circulation (in Eurosystem) on 31 December 2010	€22.3 billion
Information on unreturned Deutsche Mark banknotes and coins	pdf-file
Number of DM/euro exchanges in 2010	269,700
Value of DM/euro exchanges in 2010	DM131,2 million
Average amount per DM/euro exchange in 2010	Approx DM500
Number of DM/euro exchanges per business day in 2010	Approx 1,050

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

Cashless payments
Positions	2010
[] In 2009, TARGET2-BBk accounted approx 50,5% of payments processed by the EU-wide TARGET system.*
Payments via the Deutsche Bundesbank (in millions of transactions)	2,711.84
Payments via the Deutsche Bundesbank (in € trillion)	219
- via RPS (Germany) - in millions of payments	2,637.8
- via RPS (Germany) - in € billion	2,239
- via RPS (Germany) - per business day	10,400,000
- via RPS (cross-border) - in millions of payments	2.7
- via RPS (cross-border ) - in € billion	4
- via RPS (cross-border) RPS - per business day	10,600
- via RPS (SEPA area) in millions of payments	22,5
- via RPS (SEPA area) in € billion	57
- via RPS (SEPA area) - per business day	88,200
- via TARGET2-BBk (Germany) -in millions of payments [*]	33.9
- via TARGET2-BBk (Germany)- in € trillion	158
- via TARGET2-BBk(Germany) - per business day	131,300
- via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) - in millions of payments	10.8
- via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) in € trillion	56
- via TARGET2-BBk (cross-border) - per business day	41,900

Statistics from selected Deutsche Bundesbank publications in the field of economics/research (2010)
Publications	Number per year	Ø Number of copies

Monthly Report	12	16,000
Statistical Supplements	52	2,700
Annual Report	1	20,000
Financial Stability Report	1	17,000
Research Centre Discussion Papers	50	350
Publications in academic journals / books 2010	49	No data available

Banking supervision
Positions	2010
1) Since 2009, quarterly reports only.
Number of institutions to be supervised	3,686
Audits of banking operations	214
Number of monthly returns processed	30,598
Number of audit reports processed	6,137
Own Funds Principle (Principle I / Solvency Regulation) reports¹⁾	8,584
Liquidity Principle (Principle II / Liquidity Regulation) reports	25,752
Meetings with senior management	1,957

Cooperation with foreign central banks
Positions	2010

Training and advisory events	309
Number of participants in training and advisory events	3,719
Participating countries	92

External communications/public relations
Positions	2010

Visitors to the Money Museum	40,512
Written answers to queries	24,446
Visits to the website (www.bundesbank.de)	7,215,157
Press releases	71
Press releases to Federal securities	271
Training sessions on counterfeit prevention	1,300
Number of participants in training sessions on counterfeit prevention	29,000

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