In 2024, the number of payments made using cards issued by German payment service providers rose by 11 percent on the year. This resulted in around 13 billion transactions last year. 

Aggregierte harte Kernkapitalquote im ersten Quartal 2025 bei 16,05 % (nach 15,95 % im Vorquartal und 15,74 % ein Jahr zuvor).

In the second quarter of 2025, firms’ assessments of the development of various metrics over the past 12 months were similar to their responses from the previous quarter. For 74 % of firms, access to financing sources remained unchanged, while 19 % reported that it had deteriorated – this represented a decline of 1 percentage point compared with the first quarter of 2025 and the lowest figure since the third quarter of 2022.