We are planning to hold 47 international central banking courses in 2023 – 26 in-person courses in Frankfurt and 21 online courses. Registrations are now open. The number of places is limited.

After a break of three years, the bilateral meeting, the 16th of its kind, took place with colleagues from the Bank of Korea in Frankfurt on 3 and 4 November 2022.

Dr Nguyen Kim Anh, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, and Burkhard Balz, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank shake hands on MoU extension. 

Online lecture series on climate change and central banks ran until mid-May. Two new series on the digital euro and cash management set to start in 2024. 

New online courses available. Apply now. Short deadline for our courses “Central bank communication” (02 September) and “Crisis management at supervised credit institutions” (08 September)!

Automation, digitalisation, process optimisation, pandemic preparedness, counterfeit money – all issues that have a bearing on cash management. Our new online courses address these topics and more. 

The new online courses have been up and running for three months. Marcus Haas, advisor on banking supervision, gives us a personal insight into the new normal.

In 2020, demand for bilateral cooperation between central banks in the field of cash management increased and became more diversified. The new international online courses are being well received. The pandemic, cash centres, IT applications and cash processing were the hottest topics.

A lack of data is making it very difficult to estimate probabilities of default. Experts from 13 countries discussed different approaches, from the factoring in of certain variables to the development of algorithms. Only time will tell which of these will win out in practice.

The signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) formally extends the long-standing cooperation between the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Bank of Namibia, which stretches back ten years. Staff training, technical support, benchmarking exercises and staff exchanges are planned.

At the beginning of November, the Centre for International Central Bank Dialogue welcomed a delegation from Malawi to Frankfurt for the first time.

Cooperative arrangements are valuable, as they save resources, increase reach and strengthen networks

If you have general questions with regard to payments or your account please contact your responsible customer service team (KBS).

The Representative Office in New York provides an informal atmosphere – Bundesbank staff present their work to American banking and financial experts. To start off: Dr Weigert with the 2018 Financial Stability Review.

Trends in economic activity and prices in Germany and elsewhere are reflected in various types of statistics.

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Deutsche Bundesbank and the People’s Bank of China.

What are households’ expectations? Since 2019, the Deutsche Bundesbank has been investigating this question by surveying households in Germany on a regular basis (Bundesbank Online Panel Households).

German payment service providers operated around 103 million current accounts last year. The payment statistics published by the Deutsche Bundesbank also show that the number of transactions involving these accounts in 2017 increased compared with 2016.

Is cash a thing of the past? Certainly not! It is an important means of payment and will remain so in the future. A central bank should be well prepared in this respect. In this age of automation and digitalisation, it is important to address the right questions and make adjustments for the future. The CIC has an interesting proposal relating to this issue.

Technology-based financial enterprises, also known as fintechs, have the potential to transform the financial system permanently. Experts from 15 countries discussed the challenges central banks and financial supervisory authorities face in their work with the advent of fintechs.

Britta Weinmann is the Bundesbank’s new representative at the German embassy in Moscow. Ms Weinmann, who worked in banking supervision at the Bank’s Regional Office in Hesse prior to this, took over her new role on 1 August from Sven Redel

At a ceremony on 6 March 2020, the EU twinning project with the Serbian national bank in Belgrade was formally concluded. Burkhard Balz, Bundesbank Executive Board member, hailed it a success in his speech.

Abdulrahman Al Hamidy and Burkhard Balz sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the AMF and the Bundesbank.

Starting in June, you will be able to participate in our new web-seminars each week. Sign up now – the number of participants is limited.

Marcus Haas has been responsible for providing technical expertise on the topic of “banking supervision” at the CIC since October 2019. The coronavirus pandemic has given rise to a multitude of questions in the financial sector, which are his task to field. Here, you can read about how he is sharing his expertise with others while working from home.