On Friday, 26 July 2024, the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank was consulted pursuant to Section 7(3) of the Bundesbank Act on the nomination of Dr Sabine Mauderer as Vice-President and Mr Michael Theurer as Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

In the period from January to June 2024, the Bundesbank removed significantly more counterfeit money from circulation in Germany than in the six months prior, detecting around 38,600 counterfeit euro banknotes with a nominal value of €2.4 million. This was 29% more than in the second half of 2023. Meanwhile, the total loss arising from counterfeit banknotes was only slightly up, by just under 5%. The increase was driven by easily identifiable counterfeits, especially of €10 and €20 banknotes, said Burkhard Balz, the Bundesbank’s Executive Board member whose remit includes cash management.

Der Median der Wahrnehmung der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher bezüglich der Inflation in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten ging merklich zurück, während der Median ihrer Erwartungen bezüglich der Inflation in den kommenden zwölf Monaten sowie in drei Jahren unverändert blieb.

The number of card payments has continued to grow steadily since the end of the pandemic. In 2023, it rose by almost 16 % on the previous year to 11.8 billion transactions. 

Im zweiten Halbjahr 2023 erhöhte sich die Gesamtzahl bargeldloser Zahlungsvorgänge im Euroraum um 6,6 % auf 71,2 Milliarden im Vergleich zum zweiten Halbjahr 2022; der Gesamtwert sank unterdessen um 7,2 % auf 111,4 Billionen €.