Kreditrichtlinien wurden für alle Kreditkategorien weiter verschärft. Kreditnachfrage ist sowohl bei Unternehmen als auch bei privaten Haushalten stark rückläufig. Banken sind wegen notleidender Kredite stärker besorgt und planen Verschärfung der Kreditvergabebedingungen. Klimarisiken sind zunehmend in den Kreditbedingungen berücksichtigt.

Der neue Leitfaden konkretisiert aufsichtliche Erwartungen zur Governance und zum Risikomanagement und stellt Best Practices in der Branche vor.

Domestic enterprises, banks, public authorities and individuals are required to report cross-border equity investments on an annual basis wherever their share of capital or voting rights is 10% or higher and the investment enterprise’s total assets are more than €3 million (or the equivalent thereof if its balance sheet is denominated in another currency).

The current Monthly Report explores the factors influencing payment flows to and from Germany and how the banking system ensures that the required payments take place. The Bundesbank’s experts are in favour of excess liquidity being scaled back by the Eurosystem in the coming years to a point where the private interbank market can regain importance in the European payments space.

In the first quarter of 2023, households’ financial assets grew by €146 billion, standing at €7,393 billion at the quarter’s end. Following the declines in the first three quarters of 2022, the financial assets appear to be following the upward trend of the fourth quarter of 2022.