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TARGET stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system and is the settlement system used by Eurosystem central banks for urgent, real-time transfers.

Video tutorials regarding TIPS and TARGET2/T2S consolidation.

Aggregierte harte Kernkapitalquote im dritten Quartal 2023 bei 15,61 % (nach 15,72 % im Vorquartal und 14,74 % im dritten Quartal 2022).

Gabriele works as a translator in the language service of the Deutsche Bundesbank and has a congenital visual impairment. She mainly translates the ECB's publications, but also documents from the Bundesbank's various areas of responsibility. 

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €30.8 billion in November 2023, up €10.8 billion on the previous month’s level. This was primarily caused by the shift into a surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income. Moreover, the surplus in the goods account increased.

Das Emissionsvolumen am deutschen Rentenmarkt belief sich im November 2023 auf brutto 123,6 Mrd € (Vormonat: 130,3 Mrd €). Nach Abzug der im Vergleich zum Vormonat geringeren Tilgungen und unter Berücksichtigung der Eigenbestandsveränderungen der Emittenten stieg der Umlauf heimischer Rentenwerte um 18,1 Mrd €.

Real interest rates are interest rates that have been adjusted for developments in purchasing power. They are broadly calculated as the difference between the nominal interest rate and the inflation rate (in the case of low interest rates and relatively stable prices).

Die Leistungsbilanz des Euroraums wies in den vier Quartalen bis zum dritten Quartal 2023 einen Überschuss von 175 Mrd. € (1,2 % des BIP im Euroraum) auf, verglichen mit einem Defizit von 19 Mrd. € (0,1 % des BIP) ein Jahr zuvor.

This publication provides information about the organisation and tasks of the Regional Office in Bavaria.

On 1 January 1999, the euro was introduced as book money. Three years later, people in Germany and eleven other European countries got their hands on euro banknotes and coins for the first time. Today, twenty-five years later, the euro is legal tender in twenty countries and has become an indispensable part of Europeans’ everyday lives. 

Neue experimentelle Statistik zur Vermögensverteilung der privaten Haushalte im Euroraum liefert politischen Entscheidungsträgern vierteljährliche Daten im Einklang mit den Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen. Erste Daten zeigen Anstieg des Nettovermögens der privaten Haushalte im Euroraum um 29 % in den letzten fünf Jahren, Vermögenszuwachs bei Haushalten mit Wohneigentum stärker als bei übrigen Haushalten.

How are Bitcoin and co. regulated? The latest issue of the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report provides information on the challenges involved in regulating crypto-assets and presents the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and the international Basel standard governing the treatment of banks’ crypto-asset exposures. 

The German government has decided to mint a €5 collectors’ coin entitled “Insect kingdom”, which is scheduled for issue on 24th November 2022.

As from the start of 2024, the national central banks of European Union (EU) Member States will see their respective share in the capital of the European Central Bank (ECB) change. This key determines what percentage share a national central bank must subscribe to the ECB’s capital of around €10.8 billion in total.

The branches of the Bundesbank supply the economy with euro banknotes and coins, and offers private customers the opportunity to exchange D-Mark banknotes and coins free-of-charge and with no fixed deadline.

Der gewichtete Indikator der Kreditfinanzierungskosten für neue Kredite an Unternehmen sank um 4 Basispunkte auf 5,23 %, und der entsprechende Indikator für neue Wohnungsbaukredite an private Haushalte stieg um 10 Basispunkte auf 4,01 %; beide Entwicklungen waren auf den Zinseffekt zurückzuführen.

TARGET stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system and is the settlement system used by Eurosystem central banks for urgent, real-time transfers.