Speaking at the Bundesbank’s fifth cash symposium in Berlin, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann and Executive Board member Johannes Beermann stressed that banknotes and coins still have an important role to play in payments. The main features of cash are that it is quick, easy and secure, Mr Weidmann explained.

Im Mai 2021 hatte die EZB ihren Beschluss bekannt gegeben, sicherzustellen, dass die von ihr direkt beaufsichtigten Institute bei allen Verbriefungen die Anforderungen nach Artikel 6, 7 und 8 der EU-Verbriefungsverordnung zu Risikoselbstbehalt, Transparenz und Wiederverbriefung einhalten.

From the beginning of 2020 onwards, the coronavirus pandemic has been shaping economic developments around the world. However, as the Bundesbank writes in its Monthly Report, some economies have pulled through the crisis better than others. It notes that, whilst in a number of countries economic output has already returned to – or even exceeded – its pre-crisis level, in others it is still lagging behind. Extensive evaluations show that differences in the pattern of the pandemic and the measures taken to combat it, sectoral particularities and the scope of economic policy assistance can explain why individual economies have been affected differently.

on the topic of Payment statistics