Director General Payments and Settlement Systems

Director General Data and Statistics, Chief Data Officer

Director General / Special Representative of the Executive Board, Member of the Budget Committee of the ECB

The Eurosystem’s operational framework for implementing monetary policy comprises the general rules for Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures, by means of which the ECB Governing Council’s decisions on the implementation of monetary policy in the euro area are enacted in a decentralised manner. The Eurosystem’s monetary policy operations are executed under uniform terms and conditions in all Member States. The Bundesbank is responsible for conducting the Eurosystem’s monetary policy operations with German counterparties.

EZB verhängt Bußgelder in Höhe von insgesamt 1,685 Mio. € gegen Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat, Luxembourg. Bank verstieß gegen Meldevorschriften für das Markt- und Kreditrisiko.

Since September 2024: Director General Procurement

With the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2007 and the turmoil it brought about in the international banking system, trust between commercial banks increasingly dwindled, which significantly hampered the redistribution of liquidity via the interbank market that is necessary for a functioning corridor system. Banks in the euro area began to hoard liquidity or not lend it indiscriminately to banks that were in need of liquidity, meaning that the short-term money market no longer facilitated the smooth distribution of liquidity. The volatility of short-term interest rates went up significantly. As a result, the ECB Governing Council adopted a series of non-standard monetary policy measures, thereby changing the way in which the operational framework is used to implement monetary policy.