Regulation of banks is essential to the stability of our financial system. But how appropriate is the time and effort for smaller, regional banks? In a guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bundesbank Executive Board member Michael Theurer and BaFin President Mark Branson highlight the challenges facing small banks in Europe and call for a novel approach to reducing EU-wide regulatory requirements for small banks without jeopardising safety standards.

The following table provides details of DM5 and DM10 commemorative coins minted in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as an overview of special issue DM Olympic coins to mark the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Overview of the research conferences of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

The term structure of interes rates in the debt securities market shows the connection between the interest rates and maturities of default-free zero coupon bonds.

We are striving to make regulation clearer, more understandable and more efficient – while continuing to safeguard the stability of the banking system, said Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel at the Bundesbank’s 13th regulatory conference in Frankfurt. At the conference, representatives from banks and securities and insurance companies joined policymakers to discuss current opportunities and challenges for the financial industry and supervisors in Germany.

Germany’s current account posted a surplus of €14.8 billion in July 2025, down €2.3 billion on the previous month’s level. The surplus in the goods account increased, but there was a stronger decline in the balance of invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income.

Am 9. September 2025 verabschiedete der Rat der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) eine Änderung der Verordnung (EU) 2015/534 über die Meldung aufsichtlicher Finanzinformationen (FINREP-Verordnung der EZB) und ihrer Anhänge.