German economic output contracted in the final quarter of 2023, according to the February Monthly Report. Weak demand from abroad was still putting a strain on industry, while higher financing costs continued to dampen investment. Bundesbank economists believe that uncertainty about transformation and climate policy is also likely to have weighed on economic activity. Some headwinds will probably persist into the first quarter of 2024 as well. Economic output could therefore decline again somewhat. 

Finalisierter Leitfaden zu internen Modellen umfasst Überarbeitungen zu allgemeinen Modellthemen sowie zum Kredit-, Markt- und Gegenparteiausfallrisiko. Weitere Klarheit über die Auslegung der EZB von Regelungen zu internen Modellen. Berücksichtigung klimabezogener Risiken, Konkretisierung von Anforderungen an einheitliche Definitionen zu Kreditausfall, Gegenparteiausfallrisiko, Ausfallrisiko im Handelsbuch sowie Erläuterung der Möglichkeiten für die Rückkehr zum Standardansatz.

Here you will find all publications on the subject of "External debt".

The Deutsche Bundesbank was established on 1 August 1957. Here you can find an overview of the most important milestones of Germany’s central bank and monetary policy in the euro area.

The National Cash Forum has been established on the initiative of the Bundesbank, the being, as Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz put it, to preserve cash as an efficient and widely used means of payment in a changing payment landscape. The forum will facilitate close dialogue between the associations of the banking industry, retail trade, consumer protection, the CIT industry, vending machine operators and the Bundesbank. The industry is set to meet here at least once a year. 

Apart from its own bilateral and multilateral projects, the Bundesbank is engaged in projects financed by third parties. These alone account for one-third of the Centre for Technical Central Bank Cooperation’s activities.

Aktuelle Ausschreibungen der Deutschen Bundesbank

Vorstandsmitglied Burkhard Balz hat die neue Repräsentanz der Bundesbank in Brüssel eröffnet und das deutsche Team im House of the Euro vorgestellt. Zahlreiche Gäste, wie auch die SSM-Vorsitzende Claudia Buch und der deutsche Botschafter in Belgien, Martin Kotthaus, nutzten die Gelegenheit zum Austausch.

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €31.4 billion in December 2023, up €0.9 billion on the previous month’s level. While the surplus in the goods account decreased, the surplus in in-visible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income, ex-perienced a stronger increase. 

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In order to make the SEPA migration more customer friendly, payment service providers may provide customers with conversion services for a transitional period up to 1 February 2016.