Im Juni 2025 wies die Leistungsbilanz einen Überschuss von 36 Mrd. € auf (nach 32 Mrd. € im Vormonat).

Goethe University Frankfurt has appointed Bundesbank Executive Board member Fritzi Köhler-Geib as an honorary professor. Dr Köhler-Geib has been teaching master level courses in international and development economics/economic policy within the university’s economics and business department since 2021. She will continue to provide students on her courses, which focus on the intersection of financial markets and the real economy, with her practice-oriented perspective on policy measures to support economic growth and transformation processes.

The main refinancing operations, with a weekly frequency and a maturity of one week, are the most important monetary policy instrument used by the Eurosystem for money market management.

The financial accounts summarise financial flows in the economy and thereby contribute to the picture provided by the national accounts, which focus on the real economy. Among other things, they show whether, on balance, financial resources were taken up or made available and in what form (eg loans or shares).

The continual observation of price stability is based on analyses of price statistics. Particular attention is usually paid to the German Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) and the national Consumer Price Index (CPI), which are both published by the Federal Statistical Office and often used throughout the EU and as inflation measures.

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.

The outstanding amounts of assets and liabilities resulting from the Bundesbank's financial accounts can be presented in the form of financial balance sheets for the institutional sectors.

Information about the PHF panel.

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.

Since September 2024
Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Germany’s current account posted a surplus of €18.6 billion in June 2025, up €11.1 billion on the previous month’s level. This was mainly attributable to the swing to a surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income. Moreover, the surplus in the goods account increased somewhat.

The Research Data and Service Centre (RDSC) provides two forms of access to selected microdata collected by the Bundesbank.

The statistics on the money markets is on money market transactions, namely on secured, unsecured and certain derivatives money market transactions, concluded by monetary financial institutions (MFIs), with the exception of money market funds.

The Centralised Securities Database is a security-by-security reference database that contains data on instruments, issuers and prices for debt securities, equity instruments and investment fund shares issued worldwide. A security-by-security database is a microdatabase that stores statistics at an individual security level.

The PHF is a representative survey of German households comprising both a panel and a refresher component. The panel structure mimics that of the [U.S.] Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). All households are re-contacted, and all individuals tracked. The intended survey frequency is three years.

During the PHF's first wave in 2010‑2011 a net sample of 3,565 randomly selected households was collected. In subsequent waves interviews were conducted with 4,461 households (2014), 4,942 households (2017) and 4,119 households (2021). Almost half of the households in wave two took part for the second time. Two thirds of households who participated in wave three had already taken part in a previous wave. In wave four, the share of interviews with panel households in the total number of interviews reached 83 %. The fifth wave started in spring 2023.

The survey is based on a stratified design. To better measure the distribution of wealth in Germany, wealthy households are oversampled on the basis of micro-geographical information.

The Analytical Credit Datasets (AnaCredit) – German Part is a comprehensive research dataset provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank. It encompasses the German part of the Analytical Credit Datasets (AnaCredit), a detailed statistical credit reporting system within the Eurosystem.

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

Das Frankfurter Konzert steht ganz im Zeichen der Vielfalt Europas. Das hr-Sinfonieorchester spielt populäre und klassische Werke. Die hr-Bigband eröffnet unter Mitwirkung von Wolfgang Haffner und Shantel das Konzert. Die EZB ist mit einem Infostand vertreten.

Die EZB hat den Newsletter „Die Funken löschen, bevor es brennt: Krisen im Kreditgeschäft gut in den Griff bekommen“ zum Targeted Review on SME credit risk veröffentlicht. Dieser gibt einen Überblick darüber, wie Banken in Europa, insbesondere in Deutschland, auf potenzielle Kreditkrisen vorbereitet sind. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung standen Kreditvergaben an kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen (KMU).

The Bundesbank has a dedicated credit assessment system to assess the credit quality of debtors of non-marketable assets. Credit assessment goes back a long way at the Bundesbank. Counterparties can use the Bank's credit assessment to determine an enterprise's or debtor's eligibility in the context of their monetary policy operations.

Am deutschen Aktienmarkt wurden im Berichtsmonat neue Aktien für 5,1 Mrd € begeben. Der Umlauf ausländischer Aktien in Deutschland stieg um 4,1 Mrd €. Erworben wurden Dividendenwerte im Juni im Ergebnis durch inländische Nichtbanken (8,6 Mrd €) und heimische Kreditinstitute (2,0 Mrd €). Ausländische Investoren trennten sich hingegen per saldo von hiesigen Dividendenwerten (1,4 Mrd €).

Ein internationales Team, eine innovative Idee und ein spannender Austausch: Anita und ihr Team diskutieren mit Partnern aus Italien und Frankreich über die Container-Lösung. Zwischen kulturellen Feinheiten, technischen Herausforderungen und strategischen Überlegungen wird klar: Der Weg zu einer Entscheidung ist komplex, aber vielversprechend. Wird der Proof of Concept Realität? Und wie gelingt es, alle Beteiligten an Bord zu holen?