In addition to the regularly recurring questions on enterprise metrics, expectations and access to loans, the Bundesbank frequently asks enterprises questions on various current issues. A selection of the results is presented here.

“Economic output in Germany is likely to have increased slightly in the first quarter of 2025, but could suffer a setback in the second quarter,” the Bundesbank writes in its latest Monthly Report. Construction and industrial output, for instance, were up recently. Retail sales also continued to grow in January and February. However, according to the Bundesbank’s economists, the outlook for the second quarter is gloomy, not least given the US administration’s tariff policy.

In the first quarter of 2025, slightly more firms than in the fourth quarter of 2024 reported that they had conducted loan negotiations in the respective preceding quarter (Q1 2025: 15%, Q4 2024: 14%). 

“This is one of the most important Spring Meetings,” Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said at a press breakfast with Germany’s acting Federal Finance Minister Jörg Kukies on the occasion of the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. “We know what we’ve got, and what we’ve had, with the IMF and the World Bank. Multilateralism is a core element of the global economic order.”

Das Projekt Meridian FX liefert den Nachweis, dass Infrastrukturen für Großbetragszahlungen, wie beispielsweise Echtzeit-Brutto-Abwicklungssysteme (RTGS), mithilfe neuer Technologien interagieren können, um Devisentransaktionen durchzuführen. In dem gemeinsamen Projekt der Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich (BIZ), der Bank of England, der Banque de France, der Banca d’Italia, der Deutschen Bundesbank und der Europäischen Zentralbank wurde untersucht, wie Devisentransaktionen synchronisiert abgewickelt werden können.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat heute die unverbindlichen Kalender für die regulären Tenderoperationen und die Mindestreserve-Erfüllungsperioden (MEPs) des Eurosystems im Jahr 2026 veröffentlicht.

The branches of the Bundesbank supply the economy with euro banknotes and coins, and offers private customers the opportunity to exchange D-Mark banknotes and coins free-of-charge and with no fixed deadline.