German banks tightened their credit standards for loans to enterprises for the third consecutive period, while guidelines for loans to households for house purchase remained unchanged.

Sustainability criteria are playing an increasingly important role in central banks’ portfolio management activities. This is one of the findings in a new investment guide published by the Network for Greening the Financial System, which Bundesbank Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer unveiled at the IMF Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Im August 2019 wies die Leistungsbilanz des Euro-Währungsgebiets einen Überschuss von 27 Mrd € auf (nach einem Überschuss von 22 Mrd € im Vormonat).

Eugen Töws is the new Bundesbank representative in Pretoria (South Africa). He succeeded Jenny Kilp on 1 August. Töws had previously worked in the Bundesbank’s Directorate General Banking and Financial Supervision.

According to Executive Board Member Joachim Wuermeling, digitalisation and sustainable finance pose unprecedented challenges for supervisors. “In some areas, they have exposed the limits of our current approach to supervision. And they are forcing us to adapt.” Wuermeling said at a conference in Munich.

Die Arbeitsgruppe des privaten Sektors zu risikofreien Euro-Zinssätzen hat einen Bericht mit Empfehlungen für die Umstellung auf die neuen risikofreien Zinssätze aus der Perspektive des Risikomanagements veröffentlicht.

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Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann warned that a full-blown trade war between the US and the EU could cost both sides dearly. "The adverse effects might be considerable larger than in case of the trade spat with China“, he said in a speech in New York.

In Kiel fanden dieses Jahr am 2. und 3. Oktober die zentralen Feierlichkeiten zum Tag der deutschen Einheit statt. 29 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung und fast 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall kamen fast 500.000 Menschen zu einem großen Bürgerfest in die nördlichste Landeshauptstadt.