Information about the PHF panel.

Germany’s current account posted a surplus of €18.6 billion in June 2025, up €11.1 billion on the previous month’s level. This was mainly attributable to the swing to a surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income. Moreover, the surplus in the goods account increased somewhat.

The statistics on the money markets is on money market transactions, namely on secured, unsecured and certain derivatives money market transactions, concluded by monetary financial institutions (MFIs), with the exception of money market funds.

Since September 2024
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The National Accounts (SNA) describe in a quantitative manner the economic situation of a regional unit within a specified period.

The monthly balance sheet statistics list domestic banks (MFIs)' assets and liabilities based on the books at the end of the month. They thus represent the most comprehensive statistical survey of the banking industry in Germany and are at the core of the banking statistics reporting system.

The Research Data and Service Centre (RDSC) provides two forms of access to selected microdata collected by the Bundesbank.

The PHF is a representative survey of German households comprising both a panel and a refresher component. The panel structure mimics that of the [U.S.] Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). All households are re-contacted, and all individuals tracked. The intended survey frequency is three years.

During the PHF's first wave in 2010‑2011 a net sample of 3,565 randomly selected households was collected. In subsequent waves interviews were conducted with 4,461 households (2014), 4,942 households (2017) and 4,119 households (2021). Almost half of the households in wave two took part for the second time. Two thirds of households who participated in wave three had already taken part in a previous wave. In wave four, the share of interviews with panel households in the total number of interviews reached 83 %. The fifth wave started in spring 2023.

The survey is based on a stratified design. To better measure the distribution of wealth in Germany, wealthy households are oversampled on the basis of micro-geographical information.

The purpose of prudential liquidity regulations is to ensure that institutions are liquid at all times. Quantitative provisions for liquidity were introduced into European law for the first time by the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR, Regulation (EU) No 575/2013), in keeping with the Basel liquidity framework. The two Basel minimum standards (LCR, NSFR) and the additional monitoring metrics (AMM) were implemented by means of appropriate implementing technical standards and/or revised by Regulation (EU) 2019/876, which amended the CRR.

To collateralise all credit operations, the Eurosystem requires counterparties to provide adequate eligible assets in accordance with Article 18.1 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). Assets need to fulfil a number of criteria to be accepted as eligible collateral by the Eurosystem. 

Das Frankfurter Konzert steht ganz im Zeichen der Vielfalt Europas. Das hr-Sinfonieorchester spielt populäre und klassische Werke. Die hr-Bigband eröffnet unter Mitwirkung von Wolfgang Haffner und Shantel das Konzert. Die EZB ist mit einem Infostand vertreten.

Die zweite Staffel startet mit einem besonders aktuellen Thema. Der Unabhängigkeit von Zentralbanken. Wieder dabei ist Moderator Yannick. In der ersten Folge erklärt Yannick, warum die Unabhängigkeit der Bundesbank wichtig für alle ist. Gleich zum Auftakt gibt es auch zwei neue Rubriken. In „Mythos oder Realität“ können die Zuschauenden mitraten, welche Aussagen stimmen oder vielleicht ein Mythos sind. Und in „was einmal war“ taucht Moderator Yannick in die Geschichte ein. Denn die Hyperinflation in der Weimarer Rubik ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wozu politische Einflussnahme führen kann. Die Zahl der Woche darf auch in der neuen Staffel nicht fehlen. Diesmal ist es die 1957.

Die EZB hat den Newsletter „Die Funken löschen, bevor es brennt: Krisen im Kreditgeschäft gut in den Griff bekommen“ zum Targeted Review on SME credit risk veröffentlicht. Dieser gibt einen Überblick darüber, wie Banken in Europa, insbesondere in Deutschland, auf potenzielle Kreditkrisen vorbereitet sind. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung standen Kreditvergaben an kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen (KMU).