2022 wurden etwa 376 000 gefälschte Euro-Banknoten aus dem Verkehr gezogen. Eine Fälschung zu erhalten, ist sehr unwahrscheinlich, denn im Verhältnis zu der Zahl der echten umlaufenden Euro-Banknoten ist der Anteil an Falschgeld weiterhin äußerst gering. 

In Germany, who reaches for their smartphone when paying? A new study by the Bundesbank shows that it is mainly younger people who do so, as well as those who shop and bank online and are open to technological trends. “Demographic developments thus make it likely that the use of mobile payment methods will increase in the future”, the Bundesbank’s economists write in the current issue of the Monthly Report. As things stand today, however, mobile payments are still lagging far behind cash and debit or credit cards.