Aktuelle Vorträge, Fortbildungen, Ausstellungen und weitere Veranstaltungen der Hauptverwaltung in Rheinland-Pfalz und dem Saarland

Turnover in foreign exchange trading remained at an unchanged high level in Germany, while transactions involving interest rate derivatives have increased significantly. These findings were revealed by the survey of foreign exchange and derivatives market activity conducted in April 2022 and covering all major global financial centres. The survey was carried out by central banks in 53 countries in consultation with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Here you will find a compilation of special issues of the coin collection (available only in German).

The Bundesbank makes rules for banks. It also checks that the banks follow these rules. For example, a bank must have enough money so that it can lend money to others.

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

Um seine geldpolitischen Ziele zu erreichen, stehen dem Eurosystem verschiedene geldpolitische Instrumente zur Verfügung. Dazu gehören die Offenmarktgeschäfte, die die Deutsche Bundesbank im Rahmen ihrer Zuständigkeit mit Geschäftspartnern durchführt, die in Deutschland niedergelassen oder ansässig sind.

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

Die Deutsche Bundesbank gehört zu den Gründungsmitgliedern des von der Europäischen Kommission eingerichteten Netzwerks der Schlichtungsstellen für Finanzdienstleistungen.

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.

The special exhibition "GOLD. Treasures at the Deutsche Bundesbank" can be experienced here as a digital version on screen or with 3D glasses.

The address of the Bundesbank's website is www.bundesbank.de. The Bundesbank's editorial team writes this area of the website. 

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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

Confirmation of dates and topics of new online courses.

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.

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

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.

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.

Wie soll der Campus auf dem Gelände der Deutschen Bundesbank an der Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße in der Zukunft aussehen? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage hat die Bundesbank 2018 ein Verhandlungsverfahren mit integriertem Gestaltungswettbewerb initiiert. Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht, was bisher geschah.

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

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.

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 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.