Pictures of the Presidents of the Regional Offices of the Deutsche Bundesbank

For general questions concerning the external reporting system and calls from mobile networks, contacts at four Bundesbank locations are available.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel has said he is confident that inflation has peaked. Speaking at the joint press conference with Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner on the sidelines of the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Marrakech, Morocco, he explained that, although there was still uncertainty as to when inflation would return to the 2% target, the ten interest rate hikes carried out by the European Central Bank (ECB) to date are yielding results.

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €16.6 billion in August 2023, down €2.2 billion on the previous month’s level. While the balance in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income, moved into positive territory, there was a sharper decline in the surplus in the goods account.