Die Unternehmen berichteten von sinkenden Zinsen für Bankkredite. Allerdings meldeten sie eine geringfügige weitere Verschärfung der übrigen Kreditkonditionen.

In its function as Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank answers enquiries concerning historical German currencies and calculates long-term purchasing power equivalents.

Den Internationalen Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Holocaust am 27. Januar begeht die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) mit einer Gedenkfeier in ihrem Hauptgebäude im Frankfurter Ostend. 

The NGFS is a global network of central banks and supervisory authorities advocating a more sustainable financial system.

Geopolitische Spannungen sollten nicht genutzt werden, um auf laxere Regeln zu drängen, sagt Vorstandsmitglied Michael Theurer im Interview mit der Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Nachweislich erhöht dies nicht die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, sondern senkt sie, weil sie zu instabileren Banken und Finanzmärkten führt. Im Interview geht Theurer auf die Auswirkungen des Amtsantritts Donald Trumps auf die Regulierung in Europa ein, die Lage der Banken in Deutschland und eine bessere Krisenprävention im Bankensektor.

Stock reports pursuant to Annexes Z 5, Z 5a and Z 5b to the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation can be submitted via file transfer in different file formats.

First Deputy Governor of the Deutsche Bundesbank since September 2024.

At the beginning of November, Fritzi Köhler-Geib was appointed as new member of the Executive Board. The Executive Board has therefore reallocated its areas of responsibility. The following allocation of responsibilities shall apply with immediate effect.

Alle Veranstaltungen im Rahmen des Formats mit bankaufsichtlichen Themen im Fokus.

The German economy remained listless at the end of 2024. According to the Bundesbank’s latest Monthly Report, industry has been particularly weak. It is also unlikely that the German economy will manage to escape the period of stagnation in the first quarter of 2025. The inflation rate is still elevated but is likely to decline soon.

Paying with cash or a debit card is the cheapest payment method for consumers in Germany. Cash incurs the lowest costs per payment transaction, while debit cards are cheapest in relation to the amount of money spent. Paying with a credit card is in any case considerably more expensive. These are the conclusions drawn by a study entitled “Costs of cash and card payments from a consumer perspective”, which was carried out on behalf of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Im Anschluss ans Studium direkt international durchstarten: Thomas arbeitet für den europäischen Zahlungsverkehr und löst technische Herausforderungen, bei denen jede Sekunde zählt. Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Bankeninfrastruktur.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel officially inaugurated Ulf Slopek as President of the Regional Office in Hesse in a ceremony attended by over 150 invited guests – and said a formal farewell to Mr Slopek’s predecessor Thomas Ollinger, who now heads the Bundesbank’s Directorate General Procurement.

The tendency of monetary policy to influence investors’ risk appetite has a significant impact on the effectiveness of the Eurosystem’s monetary policy on the macroeconomy and financial markets, according to an article in the latest Monthly Report. In it, the authors examine the impact of monetary policy measures on the risk appetite of euro area investors. Their analysis is based on a new broad-based indicator of risk appetite in the euro area.

Academic staff at the Bundesbank's Research Data and Service Centre (RDSC) develop research data sets from the Bundesbank's various data bases in order to make them available for research and analytical purposes.