This year, the Bundesbank’s autumn conference in Frankfurt am Main focused on the challenges facing financial markets, financial intermediaries and central banks. The conference, which was organised in cooperation with the Humboldt University of Berlin, hosted international guests and speakers from the Federal Reserve Bank, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, King’s College London, Princeton and Bocconi University, among many more.

The banking stress test just conducted jointly by BaFin and the Bundesbank has shown that the profitability of small and medium-sized banks and savings banks in Germany improved significantly in 2023. Institutions have emerged from the interest rate reversal with stronger profitability and a higher capital base, and are also prepared for a severe crisis scenario. At a joint press conference in Frankfurt, Raimund Röseler, Chief Executive Director of Banking Supervision at BaFin, and Michael Theurer, the Bundesbank Executive Board member responsible for banking supervision, presented the results of the “LSI stress test”.

Central banks base their monetary policy on balance sheet data from banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, as well as from households, businesses, and parts of the government. These reports provide important information about behavior and developments in the respective sectors.

Die Leistungsbilanz wies in den vier Quartalen bis zum zweiten Quartal 2024 einen Überschuss von 381 Mrd. € (2,6 % des BIP im Euroraum) auf, verglichen mit einem Überschuss von 76 Mrd. € (0,5 % des BIP) ein Jahr zuvor.

The Deutsche Bundesbank holds exhibitions of contemporary art in the entrance hall of its Central Office in Frankfurt am Main.

Monthly reports, annual reports, finance stability reviews, discussion papers, statistical supplements, reports and studies

Mit ihrem Netz an Repräsentanzen ist die Bundesbank von New York bis Tokio an den wichtigsten Finanzplätzen der Welt vertreten. Am Standort Pretoria gab es nun einen Amtswechsel.

This section contains Bundesbank studies and conference papers. It also includes publications resulting from the research activities of Bundesbank staff and visiting researchers.