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On 24 and 25 November, the Bundesbank held its fifth Euro20+ event in Frankfurt am Main, inviting young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to discuss key economic policy and social issues with ECB President Christine Lagarde and Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel, amongst other guests. 

In der zweiten Folge Finance Flash dreht sich alles um das liebe Geld. Warum bezahlen wir eigentlich mit Geld? Und womit haben die Menschen früher bezahlt? Moderatorin Sarah taucht tief in die Welt des Geldes ein und erklärt die Rolle der Bundesbank dabei. Bei „Wahr oder Falsch“ geht es diesmal darum, warum man mit Geld überhaupt bezahlen kann. Es darf gerne mitgeraten werden. Außerdem überlegt Sarah in „Was wäre wenn?“, wenn es plötzlich kein Geld mehr geben würde. Mehr dazu im Video.

The macroeconomic environment is being shaped by the interest rate reversal and heightened uncertainty. So far, the German financial system has coped well with the rise in interest rates over the last year, but the effects of this rise have not yet fully materialised. Structural change in the economy is also likely to further increase credit risk.

The current good earnings situation is enabling institutions to further strengthen their capital base and thus their resilience to adverse developments,said Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the presentation of the 2023 Financial Stability Review. Even in adverse scenarios, financial institutions should have sufficient levels of capital and liquidity to be able to absorb shocks on their own. Resilience, noted Vice-President Buch, would also require investment in IT infrastructure in order to be equipped to deal with cyber risks.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat heute ihren Finanzstabilitätsbericht vom November 2023 veröffentlicht. Dem Bericht zufolge sind die Aussichten für die Finanzstabilität im Euroraum nach wie vor fragil, da die restriktiveren Finanzierungsbedingungen in einem Umfeld schwachen Wachstums, hoher Inflation und erhöhter geopolitischer Spannungen zunehmend auf die Realwirtschaft durchwirken.

Die Bundesbank bietet verschiedene Praktika im Bereich Data Science an. Thi Nhat war im Bereich Märkte eingesetzt und berichtet über ihre Tätigkeiten und Erfahrungen.

The German economy is set to recover only arduously from the period of weakness that has persisted since the outbreak of Russia’s war against Ukraine, write the Bundesbank’s experts in the Monthly Report. The industrial sector is still up against difficult conditions, and households’ mood for spending remained subdued in the third quarter. The experts do not expect economic output to see slight growth again until the first quarter of 2024.

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A digital euro would be a digital form of central bank money, specifically the euro. It could be used by the general public in much the same way as cash, only in virtual form. Alongside cash, the Eurosystem would thus supply households with an additional form of central bank money that can be used quickly, easily and securely.