Since 1998 financial services institutions have been supervised according to the same rules as credit institutions and also require authorisation.

The financial accounts summarise financial flows in the economy and thereby contribute to the picture provided by the national accounts, which focus on the real economy. Among other things, they show whether, on balance, financial resources were taken up or made available and in what form (eg loans or shares).

This year’s “Banking supervision in dialogue” symposium centred around the competitiveness of Germany’s banking sector, the way forward for banking regulation, and the impact of technological and geopolitical trends. Hosted by Corinna Egerer and Philipp Otto, this industry event in Frankfurt am Main brought together around 800 representatives from the supervisory and banking communities.

Since January 2003, the Eurosystem has carried out a quarterly bank lending survey (BLS) to expand its knowledge about the role of lending in the monetary transmission mechanism and thus to obtain additional information for monetary policy analysis.

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Within the framework of banking statistics, information on the assets and liabilities of all monetary financial institutions (MFIs) in Germany is collected on a monthly basis. In addition, more detailed information on important balance sheet items is obtained through quarterly surveys.

Inflation this year is going to be noticeably higher than we were expecting it to be before the war in the Middle East broke out, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel told the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media network in an interview. How high inflation turns out to be mainly depended on how long the Strait of Hormuz remained blocked, he added. If the outlook doesn’t improve noticeably, I would expect us to raise interest rates in June, Nagel said, pointing to the geopolitical situation and rising energy prices.