Services

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.