Bundesbank branches can pay out cash at any time, even in contingency and crisis situations – according to Executive Board member Johannes Beermann, comprehensive risk preparedness measures have put the Bundesbank in a good position to deal with such cases, too. At a meeting with the press in Frankfurt, he noted that successful crisis preparedness was predicated on interplay between all cash handlers, however.

The macro-financial environment has deteriorated substantially over the course of 2022. It has been shaped by subdued growth prospects, high inflation as well as rising interest rates and risk premia.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel, speaking at an event for Frankfurt economic journalists, has doubled down on his calls to set about downsizing the Eurosystem’s large stocks of bonds in the near future. “I can imagine no longer replacing maturing APP assets as from the beginning of next year,” he said. Mr Nagel is also expecting a further key interest rate hike to be decided at the ECB Governing Council’s December monetary policy meeting.

Die Deutsche Bundesbank hat erstmals eine digitale Ausstellung konzipiert und am Mittwoch eröffnet. „Schwarz-Rot-GOLD“ ist der Titel der innovativ gestalteten Sonderausstellung, in der Besucherinnen und Besucher alles vom Gold als Element über die Goldquellen und den Goldhandel bis zu den Goldreserven der Zentralbanken erfahren.