Director General Payments and Settlement Systems

Director General Cash Management

Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)

Since September 2024: Director General Procurement

Director General Administration

Prior to the global financial crisis starting in 2007, the Eurosystem’s operational framework for implementing monetary policy used to be a corridor system. This involved the ECB Governing Council setting three interest rates, which usually had the same distance from each other. The rates of the deposit facility and the marginal lending facility formed the lower and upper bounds of the corridor, respectively. The relevant key interest rate on the main refinancing operations was the middle of the interest rate corridor. This system aimed to steer short-term money market rates close to the main refinancing operations rate.

With the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2007 and the turmoil it brought about in the international banking system, trust between commercial banks increasingly dwindled, which significantly hampered the redistribution of liquidity via the interbank market that is necessary for a functioning corridor system. Banks in the euro area began to hoard liquidity or not lend it indiscriminately to banks that were in need of liquidity, meaning that the short-term money market no longer facilitated the smooth distribution of liquidity. The volatility of short-term interest rates went up significantly. As a result, the ECB Governing Council adopted a series of non-standard monetary policy measures, thereby changing the way in which the operational framework is used to implement monetary policy.

The European sovereign debt crisis was characterised by the fact that some euro area countries, owing to their high levels of debt – caused in part by efforts to counter the consequences of the global financial crisis – experienced difficulties refinancing their debt and, in some cases, lost access to capital market funding. In order to protect monetary policy transmission and safeguard sufficient liquidity provision for the financial system, the ECB Governing Council adopted various non-standard measures during the course of the crisis that went beyond the scope of the usual operational framework at that time.

Details and presentations with regard to our events and conferences on payments, settlement and account management.

We could be on the verge of a global economic turning point, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. In this situation, we need more Europe, not less. Trump’s proposed trade tariffs could prove very painful for Germany. Should they be implemented, he said, we might even see negative economic growth next year. Mr Nagel considers European monetary policy to be on the right track.

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €22.6 billion in September 2024, up €5.5 billion on the previous month’s level. This was caused by the larger surplus in the goods account and especially by the shift to a surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income.

Tim ist mit seinem Team für die Bargeldversorgung und die Qualitätssicherung der Banknoten und Münzen zuständig. Im Video erläutert er, wie er zusätzlichdie Gelegenheit erhielt, Einblicke in die Bankenaufsicht zu gewinnen.

Economist in the Research Centre since 2019

Economist in the Research Centre since May 2021

The prudential own funds requirements reflect a risk-oriented approach to supervision which is designed, depending on a bank's individual risk positions, to ensure that capital backing is as commensurate with risk as possible.

In this area you will find a selection of previous counterparty information letters on eligible collateral.

Selected papers by Bundesbank researchers accepted for publication or recently published.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat heute ein Konsultationsverfahren zu ihren überarbeiteten Vorgaben für die Nutzung der im Unionsrecht vorgesehenen Optionen und Ermessensspielräume eingeleitet.

In dieser Folge Finance Flash geht es um die wichtigste Aufgabe der Deutschen Bundesbank: für stabile Preise zu sorgen. Mittelfristig wird eine Inflationsrate von 2 Prozent angestrebt. Aber was kann die Bundesbank tun, damit die Preise nicht immer schneller steigen? Moderatorin Sarah erklärt, wie Geldpolitik im Eurosystem funktioniert, was Leitzinsen sind und wie Inflation gemessen wird. In „wahr oder falsch?“ stellt Sarah das Wissen der Zuschauer über die Europäische Zentralbank auf die Probe. Und in der Zahl der Woche geht es diesmal um die höchste jemals gemessene Inflationsrate. Kleiner Tipp: Es war sogar in Deutschland. Mehr dazu im Video.

The first of November saw Uwe Nebgen take over as President of the Regional Office in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein from Arno Bäcker, who held that post for eight years. Speaking at the official change of office ceremony, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel paid tribute to Arno Bäcker’s achievements with the Bank and wished his successor every success in his new position.

Die Unternehmen gaben an, dass sich die Verfügbarkeit von Bankkrediten kaum verändert habe. Allerdings sei – teilweise aufgrund der guten Ausstattung mit internen Finanzierungsmitteln – ihr Bedarf an Bankkrediten moderat zurückgegangen.

Der digitale Euro wäre ein digitales Zahlungsmittel. Er würde von den Zentralbanken des Euroraums ausgegeben werden – genauso wie die Euro-Banknoten. Alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger könnten den digitalen Euro nutzen. Die Zentralbanken des Euroraums würden damit den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zusätzlich zu Bargeld ein Zahlungsmittel anbieten, das sie schnell, einfach und sicher verwenden könnten.

To ensure the stable and reliable operation of its payment processing and account management applications, the Bundesbank carries out a wide range of test activities with its customers.

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