Das Traineeprogramm dauert zwölf Monate und verbindet Theorie und Praxis. Sie erhalten für diese Zeit einen befristeten Arbeitsvertrag als Angestellte*r auf Basis des Tarifvertrages für den öffentlichen Dienst. Das Programm beginnt am 1. Juni und am 1. Dezember.

Germany’s gross external debt amounted to €6.6 trillion at the end of the first quarter 2025; relative to gross domestic product (GDP) it increased in the period under review.

The MaSanV details the requirements for the design of recovery plans, the content of simplified requirements for recovery plans, and the application process, conditions and the design of recovery plans by institutional protection schemes.

The German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a panel survey on household finance and wealth in Germany, covering the balance sheet, pension, income, work life and other demographic characteristics of private households living in Germany. The panel survey is conducted by the Research Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Confidence in a currency is rooted in cash. In Germany, it is the Bundesbank’s task to provide an adequate supply of high-quality euro banknotes and coins at all times. The Bundesbank provides retailers and banks with cash, withdraws counterfeit money from circulation and replaces damaged coins and banknotes.

As to the investment fund statistics, comprehensive information is collected on funds open to the general public, specialised funds and closed-end funds which were created by domestic investment companies pursuant to the Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch.

Bank profit and loss statistics provide data on the income and expenditure of MFIs on an annual basis. This involves the evaluation of the profits and losses calculated from the annual accounts which the banks must submit to the Bundesbank pursuant to section 26 of the Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz).

MMSR is a transaction-by-transaction dataset about the Euro money market. Data contains detailed information about the secured and unsecured money market, foreign exchange swaps and Euro overnight index (EONIA) swaps. The German subset of the data, to which Deutsche Bundesbank provides access, comprises 115 reporting agents domiciled in Germany.

Here you will find all publications on the subject of "External debt".

Kultur im Fokus: Frankfurt ist nicht nur Finanz-, sondern auch Kulturmetropole. Das möchten wir in diesem Format unterstreichen und rücken neben klassischen Bundesbankthemen Musik, Poetry Slam und Co. in den Mittelpunkt. 

The Zentralkartei Banken (ZentK) is the database where the master data for the institutes with reporting obligations (MFIs, their foreign branches and subsidiaries as well as the multi-office banks) are administered chronologically and therefore their codification in all surveys of the banking statistics.

The same methodology as the real effective exchange rates of the euro is used to calculate price competitiveness indicators for individual euro area countries. 

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The "payments" section includes data on the payment systems employed and transaction volumes as well as statistics on securities settlement systems.

Since September 2024: Director General Procurement

On business day 29 October 2018 the Danish krone successfully became the first foreign currency to be made available for settlement in TARGET2-Securities (T2S).

TARGET2-Securities (T2S) is the name of the Eurosystem project to offer a new, harmonised and centralised method of settling securities in central bank money.

Ruth Förtsch, Daniel Nagel, Karin Sagner-Kaiser and Alexander Schwarz are new on the CIC team.

Closing event for the successful EU twinning project “Support to regulation of financial services” with distinguished guests held in Podgorica, Montenegro during the coronavirus pandemic.

Notes on methodology

Asset purchases can be a monetary policy measure to raise the inflation rate to the desired level in a low interest rate environment. The following film explains how this works.

Welche Voraussetzungen muss ich für das Studium erfüllen? Wie bewerbe ich mich und wie ist das Auswahlverfahren strukturiert?

Under the European budgetary surveillance procedure, EU member states are obliged to submit data on general government deficit and debt levels to the European Commission twice a year.

Rechtliche Regelungen zu den Aufgaben und Tätigkeiten der Deutschen Bundesbank.

The following text provides an overview of the regulations regarding the reproduction of banknotes and coins.

Since 4 January 2010
President of the Regional Office in Berlin and Brandenburg

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since 1 October 2014
President of the Regional Office in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland

Since 1 January 2024
President of the Regional Office in North Rhine-Westphalia

Since 1 October 2019
President of the Regional Office in Baden-Württemberg

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

If everyone pulls together, even complex projects can run smoothly and successfully.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced central banks to make significant strides in their digitalisation efforts. 30 experts came together in an ad hoc expert panel to share their experiences with the digitalisation process. The Bundesbank offered insights into its new InnoWerk lab.

The concepts and methodological standards for compiling external sector statistics are set out in numerous international manuals. These are currently being revised.

The Bundesbank took a fully active part in this project. Experts involved describe their personal impressions.

Looking back at 30 years of central bank cooperation. What we can see is that key issues remain while the focus shifts.

Expected real interest rates are calculated based on nominal yields and inflation expectations from analyst surveys.

Information on issuance by monetary financial institutions ("securities issues") and securities held by the domestic sectors ("securities holdings").

Überblick über den zeitlichen Ablauf des Traineeprogramms

on the topic of Direct investments

Head of the Research Centre at the Deutsche Bundesbank

Director General Administration

Burkhard Balz, the Executive Board member responsible for the CIC, draws on his many years of experience to bring personal insights to international central bank dialogue.