Die Jahreswachstumsrate der weit gefassten Geldmenge M3 lag im Oktober 2023 bei  1,0 % nach -1,2 % im September.

On 24 and 25 November, the Bundesbank held its fifth Euro20+ event in Frankfurt am Main, inviting young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to discuss key economic policy and social issues with ECB President Christine Lagarde and Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel, amongst other guests. 

The macroeconomic environment is being shaped by the interest rate reversal and heightened uncertainty. So far, the German financial system has coped well with the rise in interest rates over the last year, but the effects of this rise have not yet fully materialised. Structural change in the economy is also likely to further increase credit risk.

The current good earnings situation is enabling institutions to further strengthen their capital base and thus their resilience to adverse developments,said Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the presentation of the 2023 Financial Stability Review. Even in adverse scenarios, financial institutions should have sufficient levels of capital and liquidity to be able to absorb shocks on their own. Resilience, noted Vice-President Buch, would also require investment in IT infrastructure in order to be equipped to deal with cyber risks.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat heute ihren Finanzstabilitätsbericht vom November 2023 veröffentlicht. Dem Bericht zufolge sind die Aussichten für die Finanzstabilität im Euroraum nach wie vor fragil, da die restriktiveren Finanzierungsbedingungen in einem Umfeld schwachen Wachstums, hoher Inflation und erhöhter geopolitischer Spannungen zunehmend auf die Realwirtschaft durchwirken.