The Bundesbank makes rules for banks. It also checks that the banks follow these rules. For example, a bank must have enough money so that it can lend money to others.

In the third quarter of 2022, households’ financial assets shrank for the third time in a row owing to persistent valuation losses. A phase of negative growth in financial assets lasting longer than this was last seen during the global financial crisis.

Der Beirat besteht aus Vertretern verschiedener Wirtschaftszweige.

Das Emissionsvolumen am deutschen Rentenmarkt belief sich im November 2022 auf brutto 148,5 Mrd € (Vormonat: 165,1 Mrd €). Nach Abzug der im Vergleich zum Vormonat geringeren Tilgungen und unter Berücksichtigung der Eigenbestandsveränderungen der Emittenten stieg der Umlauf heimischer Rentenwerte um 35,6 Mrd €.

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €16.9 billion in November 2022, up €11.2 billion on the previous month’s level. This was caused by the larger surplus in the goods account and the shift to a surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income.

Die Erwartungen der Verbraucher hinsichtlich der Inflation in zwölf Monaten bzw. in drei Jahren nahmen ab. Die Erwartungen hinsichtlich des Wachstums der nominalen Einkommen in den kommenden zwölf Monaten erhöhten sich, wohingegen sie in Bezug auf das Wachstum der nominalen Ausgaben zurückgingen.

Die Leistungsbilanz wies in den vier Quartalen bis zum dritten Quartal 2022 ein Defizit in Höhe von 88 Mrd. € (0,7 % des BIP im Euroraum) auf, verglichen mit einem Überschuss von 342 Mrd. € (2,8 % des BIP) ein Jahr zuvor.

Aggregierte harte Kernkapitalquote im dritten Quartal 2022 auf 14,74 % gesunken (nach 14,97 % im Vorquartal und 15,47 % im entsprechenden Zeitraum des Jahres 2021).

Die Deutsche Bundesbank legt großen Wert auf den Schutz Ihrer persönlichen Daten und die Wahrung Ihrer Privatsphäre und informiert Sie nachfolgend über die Erhebung und Verwendung personenbezogener Daten auf ihren Webseiten.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.