For 20 years now, euro banknotes and coins have been part of the everyday lives of people in Germany and the euro area. To mark the anniversary, the Bundesbank met both with interested members of the public and with expert audiences on various occasions in 2022. The programme culminated in an anniversary ceremony at the end of the year.

Kompetenzzentrum Verfolgung unerlaubt betriebener Geschäfte

Croatia is introducing euro cash on 1 January 2023, making it the 20th Member State of the euro area. Croatian kuna banknotes can be exchanged for euro free of charge at all Bundesbank branches between 1 January and 28 February 2023. Croatia’s accession to the euro area will change the composition of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the ECB’s capital, as well as the capital key used to calculate it.

Der gewichtete Indikator der Kreditfinanzierungskosten für neue Kredite an Unternehmen stieg infolge des Zinseffekts um 37 Basispunkte auf 3,09 %; der entsprechende Indikator für neue Wohnungsbaukredite an private Haushalte erhöhte sich – ebenfalls aufgrund des Zinseffekts – um 21 Basispunkte auf 2,88 %.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has appointed Joachim Nagel President of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Mr Steinmeier presented the certificate of appointment to Mr Nagel, who holds a PhD in economics, at Schloss Bellevue on 7 January. The ceremony marking the change of office for the tenth President of the Bundesbank will take place on 11 January in Frankfurt and will be streamed live.

The worsening energy crisis, a sharp economic slump and abruptly rising market interest rates could put the financial system in Germany under considerable pressure. “To ensure that potential stress is not amplified via the financial system, financial institutions must be sufficiently resilient on their own,” said Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the presentation of the 2022 Financial Stability Review. “Financial institutions should assess the impact of adverse scenarios. Given the high uncertainty, they should engage in prudent risk provisioning and exercise caution when distributing profits,” emphasised Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling.

According to the Bundesbank's latest Monthly Report, the first double-digit inflation rate in 70 years and a high degree of uncertainty about energy supply and its costs are weighing significantly on the German economy. In the forthcoming final quarter of 2022 and first quarter of 2023, economic output could therefore fall considerably and Germany be on the brink of a recession. However, the extent of this decline is extremely uncertain, according to the report.

“The budgets of the state governments and their local governments shaped up very well in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic,” the Bundesbank writes in its Monthly Report. According to the publication, they recorded an overall surplus of €5 billion in 2021. Despite the favourable state of their finances, state governments made use of emergency borrowing totalling €18 billion under their respective debt brakes. Based on the Bundesbank’s calculations, a large part of these funds was used to top up reserves. It appears that budgetary developments will be favourable this year, too. The Bundesbank sees no need for further emergency borrowing. The positive financial situation will allow state governments to play a part in tackling the energy crisis.

Euro-Banknoten und -Münzen werden in Kroatien in Umlauf gebracht. Die kroatische Zentralbank ist nun Teil des Eurosystems. Der Euroraum hat jetzt 20 Mitgliedsländer. Nach einer Phase der engen Zusammenarbeit ist die kroatische Zentralbank nun Vollmitglied des SSM. 
 

Die Jahreswachstumsrate der weit gefassten Geldmenge M3 sank im November 2022 auf 4,8 % nach 5,1 % im Oktober. Im Dreimonatsdurchschnitt bis November betrug sie 5,4 %. 

Für die Abwicklung von Liquiditätsüberträgen zwischen Dotationskonten und TARGET gelten die „Verfahrensregeln der Deutschen Bundesbank zur Abwicklung von Liquiditätsüberträgen zwischen Dotationskonten und TARGET“

In our branches it is possible for private customers to exchange D-Mark banknotes and coins free-of-charge and with no fixed deadline. Please find further information, such as branch addresses, opening hours and travel directions, on the following sites.

Service areas for banks and companies, Central Bank Service, Reporting systems, education and dates.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat der zyprischen RCB Bank Ltd. die Bankzulassung entzogen. Der Beschluss erfolgte nach der ordnungsgemäßen Umsetzung der von der RCB Bank am 24. März 2022 angekündigten freiwilligen Einstellung ihrer Bankgeschäfte.

How is Germany’s international price competitiveness faring in light of high energy costs? The Bundesbank’s experts explore this question in the latest edition of the Monthly Report. To this end, they examined the impact of the higher energy costs, on the one hand, and the euro's depreciation against the US dollar, on the other. Their result was that, at least from a macroeconomic perspective, the depreciation of the currency is probably still offsetting high energy prices.