Central banks require information on the behaviour patterns of economic agents in the money-issuing and money-holding sectors of the economy to be able to conduct monetary policy.

Unter Berücksichtigung der bis zum 19. Februar 2025 abgeschlossenen Tarifverträge bleibt der Wage Tracker der EZB (EZB-Gesamtindikator für die Lohnentwicklung) weitgehend auf demselben Stand wie bei seiner letzten Veröffentlichung im Anschluss an die EZB-Ratssitzung vom Januar

Hauke und Thomas berichten über ihre Erfahrungen in einem agilen Arbeitsumfeld und welche Skills hierfür aus ihrer Sicht wichtig sind.

The branches of the Bundesbank supply the economy with euro banknotes and coins, and offers private customers the opportunity to exchange D-Mark banknotes and coins free-of-charge and with no fixed deadline.

The €2 coins with a commemorative design are regular coins , which are accepted as legal tender in all euro-area countries. Although these €2 coins with a commemorative design are more commonly referred to as commemorative coins, they are nonetheless officially classed as “standard” regular issue coins.

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With the introduction of ECMS in November 2023, the management of eligible collateral for Eurosystem monetary policy credit operations will be integrated on a single and central technical platform. In order to ensure a smooth migration from the Collateral Management Systems currently used to the ECMS, extensive testing and migration preparations are required.

In 2024, the Bundesbank registered approximately 72,400 counterfeit euro banknotes with a nominal value of €4.5 million in German payments. The number of counterfeits was thus up by 28% on the year. 

ExtraNet is the Bundesbank’s e-business platform.

The forms are available in PDF format and WORD format.

The Governing Council of the ECB has shortlisted the motifs for the two possible themes for future euro banknotes: “European culture: shared cultural spaces” and “Rivers and birds: resilience in diversity”. The selected motifs include Ludwig van Beethoven, Marie Curie and Leonardo da Vinci. “Rivers and birds” included a kingfisher in a waterfall, a white stork flying over a river valley and a wallcreeper next to a mountain landscape. The ECB is expected to make the final decision on the designs of the new banknotes in 2026.

Here you find downloads on Reports Regulation, Holder Control Regulation and implementation of the Acquisition Directive, Audit Report Regulation, Accounting Regulation, Regulations concerning payment institutions, Group Financial Statements Transition Regulation, Solvency Regulation and Further National regulations.

The following datasets have been updated by the RDSC and are now available for research projects:
JANIS, BOP-F, IFS-Base, BOP-HH, MMSR, MaMFI

The JANIS dataset contains annual financial statements of German non-financial corporations which are sent to the Bundesbank for credit assessment purposes, as well as financial statements from public sources. JANIS is an extension of the USTAN dataset of corporate balance sheet statistics.

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