Even after the introduction of the euro, responsibility for the coin prerogative still lies with the competent national authorities; in Germany this is the Federal Ministry of Finance. The Bundesbank, for its part, is entrusted with the task of ensuring that a sufficient range of payment mediums are available to support the execution of payments.

With a view to the future, a pan-European deposit insurance scheme is envisaged. The European Commission's proposals foresee the gradual implementation of a system of comprehensive insurance by 2024, under which bank customers' savings would be covered by a European fund in the event of a bank insolvency.

On 30 January 2018, the German government issued a €2 commemorative collector’s coin “100th anniversary of the birth of Helmut Schmidt”.

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Here we have compiled further information on the role of TIPS in ensuring pan-European reachability and on the European regulation on the processing of instant credit transfers in Euro.

Pictures and information on the national sides of the coins in circulation in France.

Please apply online by clicking on the registration button in the course description. Should you encounter any problems applying online, please get in touch with our contact persons. Please note the deadline for application as applications received after this date cannot generally be considered. The questionnaire also serves as a criterion for selecting suitable participants.

Pictures and information on the national sides of the coins in circulation in Andorra.

Detailed description of positions of banks’ month-end asset and liability positions in the form of a balance sheet with a supplementary breakdown of the balance sheet items by category, maturity and sector of the respective creditors and debtors.

There are various documents available describing the structure and functioning of T2. There are for example the Information Guide for TARGET participants, the User Requirements Document, the User Detailed Functional Specifications, the User Handbooks or our Starting Guide which shall ease the first steps for new participants. These documents and even more can be found in this area. 

Interessierten Unternehmen bietet die Bundesbank auch unabhängig von der refinanzierungsbezogenen Bonitätsprüfung eine detaillierte Bilanzanalyse an.

In this area all documents relevant for customer testing can be found. There are for example documents containing the T2 Mandatory Test Cases, the TARGET Services User Testing Calendar or the User Testing Terms of Reference. 

All documents relevant to customer testing can be found in this area. These include for example a document containing mandatory test cases, the test calendar and the test specifications (terms of reference).

Macroprudential measures are intended to make the financial system as a whole more resilient to crises, so that the real economy can be supplied with financial services to an appropriate extent at any time. Capital buffer requirements rank among the most important measures available to regulators. Other instruments are also available in Germany to address systemic risk originating in the real estate market.