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Die Leistungsbilanz wies im Januar 2022 einen Überschuss von 23 Mrd € auf und blieb damit gegenüber dem Vormonat unverändert.

2021 saw Germany’s current account surplus rise by €26½ billion to €265½ billion. The balance grew by ½ percentage point to 7½% of gross domestic product. The ratio thus more or less returned to its pre-pandemic level, after the short-lived decline in the previous year.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel has warned of persistently high inflation. “Even before the war against Ukraine, the inflation rate was very high. [...] Given the surge in energy prices on account of the war, consumer price inflation is likely to pick up again substantially, particularly in the near term,” Mr Nagel said in a speech delivered at a change of office ceremony in Hanover. As members of the ECB Governing Council, he remarked, we must now ensure that the strong inflation does not become entrenched and does not lead to excessively high inflation in the medium term.

“The impact of Russia’s attack on Ukraine is likely to place a noticeable strain on economic activity in Germany from March,” the Bundesbank writes in its Monthly Report. Energy commodity prices have surged which will probably put a damper on household consumption and the production of energy-intensive industries. Together with the looming disruptions to foreign trade and supply chains and the heightened uncertainty, the consequences of the war are likely to slow the economic recovery originally expected by a significant degree.

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BaFin and Deutsche Bundesbank are putting their joint consultation paper “Machine Learning in Risk Models – Characteristics and Supervisory Priorities” out for consultation. It deals with the concrete use of machine learning (ML) in risk models of Pillars I and II of the regulatory framework for banks and insurers.

Bargeld bleibt in Deutschland an der Ladenkasse meistgenutztes Zahlungsmittel. Das geht aus der aktuellen Studie der Deutschen Bundesbank zum Zahlungsverhalten in Deutschland im Jahr 2023 hervor. Jedoch gewinnen Karte und mobiles Bezahlen deutlich hinzu während der Anteil der Barzahlungen sinkt. Dieser Rückgang ist zwar nicht mehr so ausgeprägt wie während der Corona-Pandemie. Dennoch sinkt der Barzahlungsanteil schneller als in den Jahren davor, sagte Bundesbankvorstand Burkhard Balz.

Die Deutsche Bundesbank hat das Büro Morger Partner Architekten mit weiteren Architektenleistungen für geplante Neubauten auf dem Gelände der Zentrale in Frankfurt am Main beauftragt.

Der Bruttoabsatz am deutschen Rentenmarkt lag im Januar 2022 mit 143,3 Mrd € deutlich über dem Wert des Vormonats (84,1 Mrd €). Unter Berücksichtigung gestiegener Tilgungen und der Eigenbestandsveränderungen der Emittenten stieg der Umlauf inländischer Rentenpapiere um 39,1 Mrd €, nach einem Rückgang von 27,6 Mrd € im Dezember 2021.

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €11.0 billion in January 2022, down €13.6 billion on the previous month’s level. The surplus in the goods account declined considerably, with the surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income, contracting even more strongly.