From 1 January 2002, euro banknotes and coins are legal tender in all EU member states participating in monetary union. This has nullified the legal tender status of all payment media denominated in Deutsche Mark.

In accordance with the provisions of the Solvency Regulation, two different approaches are used to quantify credit and counterparty credit risk, the Credit Risk Standardised Approach and the Internal Ratings-Based Approach.

In operational terms, ongoing supervision involves evaluating documentation, reports, annual financial statements and audit as well as inspection reports, requesting of further information and, on the basis of the data collected, assessing the supervised institutions’ current and potential risks. The workload also includes conducting routine and, in consultation with BaFin, ad hoc supervisory meetings with respective institutions.

The ongoing monitoring of institutions also includes conducting on-site inspections. These give the Bundesbank deeper insights into institutions’ risk structures and the procedures they use to control risk. The Bundesbank’s supervisors investigate whether the internal risk measurement methods which institutions use to calculate their capital requirements can be approved.

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The Federal Government currently employs a range of securities to borrow funds for financing its budget. There are four different one-off issues (Federal bonds, Five-year Federal notes, Federal Treasury notes and Treasury discount paper as well as inflation-linked Federal bonds and inflation-linked Federal notes), which are issued by auction.