Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says that monetary policy is facing a period of normalisation. "But it’s a long path fraught with stiff challenges, and the final destination still hasn’t been pinpointed," he told Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper. Mr Weidmann stressed that uncertainty around the inflation outlook is receding and that it would be wrong to ignore the risks associated with what remains an ultra-loose monetary policy stance.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says that today’s banking system is more crisis-proof than it was a decade ago and that the principle of liability has been strengthened. "Above all, the capital requirements that banks are expected to meet have been increased," Mr Weidmann noted in an interview he gave to Germany’s Bild daily newspaper on the tenth anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a US bank.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling thinks German banks still have potential to improve their IT security. "The risk of cyber attacks on financial institutions is high and will continue to increase, the further digitalisation progresses", he said in an interview with the Funke media group.

Bundesbank-Vorstandsmitglied Johannes Beermann spricht im Interview mit der SUPERillu über die deutschen Goldreserven und die Zinsentwicklung im Euro-Raum.