The Centralised Securities Database is a security-by-security reference database that contains data on instruments, issuers and prices for debt securities, equity instruments and investment fund shares issued worldwide. A security-by-security database is a microdatabase that stores statistics at an individual security level.

The Governing Council of the ECB has shortlisted the motifs for the two possible themes for future euro banknotes: “European culture: shared cultural spaces” and “Rivers and birds: resilience in diversity”. The selected motifs include Ludwig van Beethoven, Marie Curie and Leonardo da Vinci. “Rivers and birds” included a kingfisher in a waterfall, a white stork flying over a river valley and a wallcreeper next to a mountain landscape. The ECB is expected to make the final decision on the designs of the new banknotes in 2026.

Here you find downloads on Reports Regulation, Holder Control Regulation and implementation of the Acquisition Directive, Audit Report Regulation, Accounting Regulation, Regulations concerning payment institutions, Group Financial Statements Transition Regulation, Solvency Regulation and Further National regulations.

The JANIS dataset contains annual financial statements of German non-financial corporations which are sent to the Bundesbank for credit assessment purposes, as well as financial statements from public sources. JANIS is an extension of the USTAN dataset of corporate balance sheet statistics.

Ein neues Finanzbildungsnetzwerk von Zentralbanken und nationalen Aufsichtsbehörden soll Fokus auf Maßnahmen für Frauen legen. Eine europaweite Harmonisierung von Daten zur Finanzbildung soll umfassende Erkenntnisse liefern.

The IFS-Base is the core module of the Deutsche Bundesbank’s Investment Funds Statistics (IFS). Since September 2009 the IFS allows for a detailed overview of the assets and liabilities of German open-end investment funds on a fund-by-fund level.

The dataset covers selected master data of the banking statistics for legally dependent and independent majority-owned foreign affiliates of German MFIs that are banks themselves.