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Data access and data protection
The micro data from wave one and two are available for scientific research projects.
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Cash cycle — Role of CB & external cash recycling
This online course is aimed at those central bank employees who are interested in the national cash cycle in their country of origin or who would like an insight into how the Bundesbank organises its monitoring activities.
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“We do not have to deliver on specific expectations” Interview with Econostream
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Monthly Report: sustainability risks increasingly in the sights of banking supervisors
16.04.2026 DE
Sustainability risks are a growing area of interest for banking supervisors. More and more banks are integrating these ESG risks into their risk processes and lending practices, the Bundesbank writes in its current Monthly Report. Implementation remains a challenge, however, especially in terms of data availability and setting concrete target values for sustainable strategies. Supervisors are calling for further progress to be made in terms of management and preparation of ESG risk plans.
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Professor Joachim Nagel President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
Since January 2022
President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
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Excess reserves and excess liquidity
Deposits from credit institutions with the central bank are referred to as reserves. Reserves can be used, amongst other things, to settle payments, provide banknotes and fulfill the minimum reserve requirements.
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Euro banknotes The new Europa series €100 and €200 banknotes
The denominations of euro banknotes embody the shared theme of "Ages and styles of Europe" and represent the architectural styles of seven periods of European cultural history. They have been legal tender in all of the participating European Union member states since 1 January 2002. In addition, the physical appearance of euro banknotes is identical throughout the euro area. The European Central Bank and the national central banks of the Eurosystem began rolling out a second series of euro banknotes in May 2013.
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International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was conceived at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, and currently has 190 member countries. Germany joined the Fund in 1952. The overarching aim of the IMF is to promote economic policy cooperation and stability in the international monetary system. Its mandate also covers financial stability issues that have monetary implications.
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Nagel: “In Europe, we need to ask ourselves: How can we solve issues together in future?”
17.04.2026 DE
“World events are keeping us on tenterhooks,” said Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel at a joint press conference with Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, speaking about challenges facing the German economy and monetary policy. Nagel noted that the situation in the Middle East was, in many respects, a new test of hardship.