Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann would consider it prudent to announce an end date soon for the Eurosystem’s bond purchases. Business activity is exceptionally brisk and the European Central Bank’s latest inflation forecast of 1.7% in 2020 is "well within our definition of price stability", he said in an interview with German media group Funke-Mediengruppe and French daily paper Ouest-France.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling takes a positive view of the cool-headedness of market players with regard to monetary policy normalisation. In an inter-view with the German business daily Börsen-Zeitung, he remarked that this reflected an ac-curate understanding of the ECB Governing Council’s forward guidance. "I also believe that it is realistic for market players to expect that net purchases could expire by the end of the year and that the first interest rate hike cannot be expected to happen prior to the middle of next year," he noted.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret believes that the large number of credit institutions, many of which have very different business models, contributes to the strength of the German banking industry. However, when it comes to their earnings, there is definitely room for improvement in many cases, he said in an interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt.

Nach Auffassung von Bundesbank-Vorstandsmitglied Andreas Dombret trägt die Vielzahl von Kreditinstituten mit zum Teil sehr unterschiedlichen Geschäftsmodellen zur Stärke des deutschen Kreditwesens bei. Bei den Erträgen gäbe es in vielen Fällen aber zweifellos Verbesserungsbedarf, sagte Dombret in einem Interview mit dem Handelsblatt.