Under the Credit Risk Standardised Approach the risk positions are assigned to supervisory asset classes and the appropriate risk weights are calculated .

Introducing our newcomers: Marie-Therese Gold, head of the Bundesbank’s representative office in Brussels, Nikola Marcinko, the Bundesbank’s first representative in Riga, Ezgi Delikanli, representative in London, Andreas Gauf and Philipp Täufer on the Frankfurt team. 

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €29.7 billion in January 2024, down €1.9 billion on the previous month’s level. The goods account surplus increased significantly, but this was outweighed by a stronger decline in the surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income.

Der Bruttoabsatz am deutschen Rentenmarkt lag im Januar 2024 mit 146,9 Mrd € deutlich über dem Wert des Vormonats (81,3 Mrd €). Unter Berücksichtigung gestiegener Tilgungen und der Eigenbestandsveränderungen der Emittenten stieg der Umlauf inländischer Rentenpapiere um 22,3 Mrd €, nach einem Rückgang von 27,5 Mrd € im Dezember 2023. Der Umlauf ausländischer Titel am deutschen Markt erhöhte sich um 8,3 Mrd €, sodass der Umlauf von in- und ausländischen Schuldverschreibungen in Deutschland im Januar im Ergebnis um 30,6 Mrd € anstieg. 

Luca studiert an der bundesbankeigenen Hochschule Zentralbankwesen und konnte in seiner Praxisphase aktiv bei der Rekrutierung neuer Studierender unterstützen.

The Bank Al-Maghrib hosted a three-part series of seminars led by the Bundesbank on the topics of financial stability, banking supervision and cash management. At the AMF, the focus was on green finance. 

EZB schließt im Dezember 2022 begonnene Überprüfung ab. Handlungsrahmen legt dar, wie der EZB-Rat künftig die kurzfristigen Geldmarktsätze angesichts der Normalisierung der Bilanz des Eurosystems steuert, sodass diese sich eng an den geldpolitischen Beschlüssen orientieren.

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Central Bank of the Philippines and the Bundesbank.

Over 50 financial sector representatives accepted the invitation to the first Forum Bundesbank in Madrid. The panel discussion focused on the economic challenges currently facing Europe. The next forum is scheduled for the second half of the year.

François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France, and Joachim Nagel, President of the Bundesbank, cut the ribbon on an EU-funded pilot project for African central banks at a special event held in Paris. 

With its electronic access for credit institutions, which is based on the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS), the Deutsche Bundesbank offers a communication channel based on accepted protocols and standards which is capable of processing the growing data volumes in the data exchange between payment service providers with bank sort code efficiently, securely and cost-effectively.