The Bundesbank and the Joint Vienna Institute discussed monetary policy issues with experts from 12 different countries. The topics of climate change and digitalisation raised many questions.

The House of the Euro was inaugurated by ECB President Christine Lagarde, eight central bank governors and the entire ECB Executive Board as a place for cooperation in Brussels between the European Central Bank, the Bundesbank and other central banks.

The Bank Al-Maghrib and the Deutsche Bundesbank held a seminar in Rabat, at which 40 participants addressed current issues relating to financial stability over three days.

The CIC has a new deputy head and five employees have started working for the Bundesbank abroad – in Brussels, Istanbul and Beijing.

Registration is now open for the new international central banking courses in 2024. 44 courses are on offer. We have added two online series on the topics of climate change and the digital euro.

Karin Sagner-Kaiser of the CIC and Prof. Andreas Igl of the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences were at the Bank of Mauritius. They explained the Basel III reform in detail to an audience of around 60 people working in banking supervision and at credit institutions. 

As part of the Bundesbank Invited Speakers Series, Beatrice Weder di Mauro held a talk entitled “Still too big to fail? The need for reform after the demise of Credit Suisse”. She was invited by the Bundesbank’s Research Centre, whose director, Falko Fecht, hosted the proceedings.  

Verglichen mit September 2023 haben sich die Erwartungen der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher wie folgt entwickelt.

Der gewichtete Indikator der Kreditfinanzierungskosten für neue Kredite an Unternehmen stieg infolge des Zinseffekts um 17 Basispunkte auf 5,26 %; der entsprechende Indikator für neue Wohnungsbaukredite an private Haushalte blieb mit 3,91 % weitgehend unverändert.