According to the current issue of the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report, German economic output fell surprisingly significantly in the fourth quarter of 2024. The main reasons for this were declining exports and weak industrial output, especially in the automotive sector, while private and government consumption expenditure rose. The labour market outlook also suggests a continued cooldown.

2024 wurden etwa 554 000 gefälschte Euro-Banknoten aus dem Verkehr gezogen – der Anteil der Fälschungen am gesamten Banknotenumlauf ist niedrig.

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €24.0 billion in December 2024, up €2.1 billion on the previous month’s level. The surplus in the goods account decreased sharply, but the surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income, increased more strongly.

Eurosystem verstärkt Anstrengungen zur Förderung innovativer Marktinfrastrukturen. Zweigleisiger Ansatz: Entwicklung einer Lösung, die die Interoperabilität mit bestehenden Infrastrukturen ermöglicht, und zugleich Prüfung langfristiger integrierter Lösungen.
 

Der Jahresabschluss der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) für 2024 weist einen Fehlbetrag von 7 944 Mio. € aus. Dieser ist vergleichbar mit dem Fehlbetrag von 7 886 Mio. € vor der Auflösung von Risikorückstellungen im Jahr 2023.

MMSR is a transaction-by-transaction dataset about the Euro money market. Data contains detailed information about the secured and unsecured money market, foreign exchange swaps and Euro overnight index (EONIA) swaps. The German subset of the data, to which Deutsche Bundesbank provides access, comprises 115 reporting agents domiciled in Germany.

The Zentralkartei Banken (ZentK) is the database where the master data for the institutes with reporting obligations (MFIs, their foreign branches and subsidiaries as well as the multi-office banks) are administered chronologically and therefore their codification in all surveys of the banking statistics.