Bundesbankvorstand Joachim Wuermeling über künstliche Intelligenz, die digitale Bankenaufsicht und wie das „InnoWerk“ zu mehr Austausch mit dem digitalen Ökosystem beitragen soll.

Every four years, the Executive Board of the Bundesbank adopts a new strategy. Here you will find the principles of Strategy 2024 as well as the Bank's mission statement, which serves as a long-term orientation framework and forms the basis for the medium-term strategy.

In the year that the coronavirus pandemic began, general government debt in Germany was up by €275 billion to €2.332 trillion. The debt ratio, meaning the ratio of debt to gross domestic product, rose from 59.7% to 70.0% in 2020, which is the sharpest increase in the debt ratio within the space of a year since German reunification.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says financing conditions play a crucial role on the road to price stability, but there’s more to it than just glancing at the indicators. If those indicators flag changes, he states, the job of central banks is to analyse exactly how those changes came about. “I believe that financing terms should be able to evolve in line with the economic recovery in the euro area. It’s not a matter of using monetary policy to cement a particular interest rate level,” Mr Weidmann said in a speech delivered virtually in Frankfurt.

Deutsche Bundesbank together with Deutsche Börse Group and Germany’s Finance Agency have developed and successfully tested a settlement interface for electronic securities. Securities settlement using distributed ledger technology (DLT) is performed with the aid of a trigger solution in TARGET2.

In the year the coronavirus pandemic began, general government debt in Germany as defined in the Maastricht Treaty was up by €275 billion to €2.332 trillion. By contrast, debt had been repaid in preceding years on the whole.

Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann misst den Finanzierungsbedingungen auf dem Weg zur Preisstabilität eine wichtige Funktion bei. „Aus meiner Sicht sollten sich die Finanzierungsbedingungen im Einklang mit der wirtschaftlichen Erholung im Euroraum entwickeln können. Es geht also gerade nicht darum, ein bestimmtes Zinsniveau geldpolitisch zu zementieren“, sagte Weidmann bei einer virtuellen Rede in Frankfurt.

The Bundesbank’s open-air exhibition on German monetary Union will be on show from 6 to 28 March 2021 in Hamburg.

Gesamtaktiva der Pensionseinrichtungen im Euro-Währungsgebiet sind im vierten Quartal 2020 um 135 Mrd € auf 3 156 Mrd € gegenüber dem dritten Quartal 2020 gestiegen. Ansprüche gegenüber Alterssicherungssystemen im Euro-Währungsgebiet sind im vierten Quartal um 46 Mrd € auf 2 785 Mrd € gegenüber dem dritten Quartal 2020 gestiegen.
 

Der gewichtete Indikator der Kreditfinanzierungskosten für neue Kredite an Unternehmen und jener für neue Wohnungsbaukredite an private Haushalte blieben mit 1,48 % bzw. 1,31 % weitgehend unverändert.

“Weaving a thread from yesterday to tomorrow by preserving knowledge and sharing experience” was the title given to a symposium in which the Bundesbank joined forces with the Institute for Banking and Financial History to celebrate the Bundesbank’s Historical Archives’ 50th year. Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz paid tribute to the achievements of the archive’s staff.

Die Jahreswachstumsrate der weit gefassten Geldmenge M3 sank im Februar 2021 auf 12,3 % nach 12,5 % im Januar.

The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) has released its latest report, entitled “Adapting central bank operations to a hotter world”, which outlines specific options available to central banks to factor climate-related risks into their monetary policy operations. Bundesbank Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer called the report a milestone.

2020 saw Germany’s current account surplus drop by €26½ billion to €232 billion. Expressed as a share of nominal gross domestic product, the balance declined by half a percentage point to 7%, which is significantly below the record level of 8½% in 2015.

Gebühren für 2020 in Höhe von 514,3 Mio € ergeben sich aus tatsächlichen Ausgaben von 535,3 Mio € abzüglich des Überschusses aus 2019 und anderer Anpassungen. Neupriorisierung von Aufgaben infolge der Covid-19-Pandemie bei weitgehend gleichbleibenden Kosten gegenüber 2019. Nach Umstellung auf nachträgliche Inrechnungstellung zahlen Banken die Gebühren erst im zweiten Quartal 2021.

According to the current issue of the Monthly Report, there is likely to be a steep fall in German economic output in the first quarter of 2021. In particular, activity in services sectors with high frequencies of interpersonal contact will probably have declined again sharply. By contrast, industry is profiting from stronger foreign demand and is likely to have bolstered economic activity in the current quarter.

Die Leistungsbilanz wies im Januar 2021 einen Überschuss von 30 Mrd € auf (nach 37 Mrd € im Vormonat).

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices is the key indicator used to measure price stability, and thus orient monetary policy, in the euro area. Bundesbank researchers have now investigated whether and to what extent there has been measurement bias when calculating this index for Germany in the past.