Ceremonies took place to formally mark two changes of office, each with around 50 guests. The new Bundesbank representatives are Thomas Notheis in Mumbai and Alexander Lieber in São Paulo.

In shops, you sometimes pay with your bank card. The money from your account is sent to the shop owner. The Bundesbank takes care of this.

Banks lend each other money. They need to trust each other to do this. The Bundesbank makes sure that banks trust each other.

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.

Britta Weinmann is the Bundesbank’s new representative at the German embassy in Moscow. Ms Weinmann, who worked in banking supervision at the Bank’s Regional Office in Hesse prior to this, took over her new role on 1 August from Sven Redel

The business operations of institutions such as the Bundesbank inevitably have an environmental impact. The Bundesbank is aware of its responsibility to minimise this impact and to make an active, sustainable contribution to protecting the environment and preventing climate change.

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.

After a break of three years, the bilateral meeting, the 16th of its kind, took place with colleagues from the Bank of Korea in Frankfurt on 3 and 4 November 2022.

In 2020, demand for bilateral cooperation between central banks in the field of cash management increased and became more diversified. The new international online courses are being well received. The pandemic, cash centres, IT applications and cash processing were the hottest topics.

Following many online courses over the past two years, the “Introduction to the Basel Framework” course was held in Frankfurt as a face-to-face event in April. Marcus Haas, advisor on banking supervision, reports on how it went and the advantages and disadvantages of in-person courses.

The European System of Accounts (ESA) 2010 is the EU’s framework for compiling key macroeconomic statistics, such as the national accounts, the financial accounts and the balance sheets of Member States. It is based on the UN’s System of National Accounts (SNA) 2008, which is applicable worldwide.

You need lots of things in your day-to-day life. Bread, clothes and somewhere to live. Sometimes you also want to go swimming. The Bundesbank keeps the value of money stable to stop prices from going up all the time. The difficult word for this task is monetary policy

A lack of data is making it very difficult to estimate probabilities of default. Experts from 13 countries discussed different approaches, from the factoring in of certain variables to the development of algorithms. Only time will tell which of these will win out in practice.

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

The Centre for International Central Bank dialogue welcomes the University’s international outlook and values our close collaboration.

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.

In this section you will find a selection of statistics on payments and securities settlement.

A wide range of topics, including statistics and financial stability, are being offered online in varying formats – individual course units or modular courses that build on each other.

Automation, digitalisation, process optimisation, pandemic preparedness, counterfeit money – all issues that have a bearing on cash management. Our new online courses address these topics and more. 

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

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

Here you will find fact sheets concerning the payment services. 

Wie soll der Campus auf dem Gelände der Deutschen Bundesbank an der Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße in der Zukunft aussehen? Details zu den sechs eingereichten Entwürfen finden Sie hier.

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).

Confirmation of dates and topics of new online courses.

The new online courses have been up and running for three months. Marcus Haas, advisor on banking supervision, gives us a personal insight into the new normal.

High-level experts from the ESCB, the European Commission, and the central banks and national competent authorities of the Western Balkans met in Frankfurt at the end of February to discuss the topic of non-performing loans from both a microprudential and macroprudential perspective.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz and William Nyagaka, Director of Kenya School of Monetary Studies, extend the Memorandum of Understanding that has existed since 2007.

One year ago, the new Centre for International Central Bank Dialogue was established. Synergies have been harnessed in the field of central bank cooperation by working hand in hand with the Bundesbank’s representatives around the world.

Weiter geht es mit Maxin und Anita auf ihrer Tour durch die Payment Systems IT. Von der Automation der Mainframe-Abläufe bis zur Überwachung des gesamten Systems – im Betriebsteam wird mit Kreativität und Pragmatismus gearbeitet. Charly und Fernando sorgen mit ihrem Team dafür, dass alles reibungslos läuft. Maxin entdeckt, was die Geheimnisse hinter ihrem Erfolg sind: Jasmintee, Teamgeist und ...

In its function as Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank answers enquiries concerning historical German currencies and calculates long-term purchasing power equivalents.

Meine Freunde hatten mich gewarnt, dass dieses Haus nicht zu mir passt, aber jetzt bin ich hier. Mal sehen, wohin die Reise führt. Bei der Bundesbank-IT werde ich als Werkstudentin in der Software-Entwicklung arbeiten und lerne gerade die verschiedenen Teams und Aufgaben kennen. Alles dreht sich hier um die Grundlagen für den europäischen Zahlungsverkehr auf einem Mainframe. Ich werde Teil dieser Payment Systems IT Connection!

German payment service providers operated around 103 million current accounts last year. The payment statistics published by the Deutsche Bundesbank also show that the number of transactions involving these accounts in 2017 increased compared with 2016.

The external position of banks shows the assets and liabilities of banks in Germany and their foreign branches and subsidiaries vis-à-vis non-residents. The microdatabase is based on the individual monthly reports of all German banks dating back to March 2002.

The Regional Offices monitor credit institutions and financial service providers in their respective regions. The branches are subordinate to the Regional Office and supply the economy with euro banknotes and coins.

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.

Marcus Haas has been responsible for providing technical expertise on the topic of “banking supervision” at the CIC since October 2019. The coronavirus pandemic has given rise to a multitude of questions in the financial sector, which are his task to field. Here, you can read about how he is sharing his expertise with others while working from home.

At a ceremony on 6 March 2020, the EU twinning project with the Serbian national bank in Belgrade was formally concluded. Burkhard Balz, Bundesbank Executive Board member, hailed it a success in his speech.

The second joint EU-funded project for the NBRNM has begun. Analyses are under way in the area of banking regulation and supervision.

Abdulrahman Al Hamidy and Burkhard Balz sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the AMF and the Bundesbank.

All course information in one place – from registration to feedback.

In kurzen Video-Clips beantworten Studierende häufig gestellte Fragen zum Studiengang „Zentralbankwesen (BWL) / Bachelor of Science“ an der Hochschule der Bundesbank.

Maxin lernt Inga kennen, die ihr den Bereich Mainframe-Testing mit viel Charme und Fachwissen näherbringt. Fasziniert von den Prozessen rund um Git-Lab, Deployment und Qualitätssicherung, bringt Maxin später in einer Besprechung eine mutige Idee ein: eine Container-Lösung, die das Deployment revolutionieren könnte. War sie damit vorschnell oder kann sie das Team überzeugen? 

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