Bundesbankpräsident Joachim Nagel ist in einen Beirat zur Förderung von Finanzbildung berufen worden und folgt damit auf seinen Amtsvorgänger Jens Weidmann.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has drawn attention to the dangers of issuing digital central bank money, and urged caution. “Any introduction of central bank digital currencies needs to be carefully considered,” he commented at this year’s Bundesbank Payments Symposium in Frankfurt am Main.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann sees no reason to move away from the last monetary policy assessment at the moment and cautions against pre-empting decisions that are not yet on the agenda. “The monetary policy stance is appropriate at this time,” he told interviewers from the German “Börsen-Zeitung” newspaper.

According to Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, the German economy has probably moved past the trough of the coronavirus crisis. “The economy is growing again,” Mr Weidmann said at a speech in Frankfurt am Main.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann believes that the Governing Council of the European Central Bank should make sure that it does not miss the right time for monetary policy normalisation. Speaking in Frankfurt, he noted that monetary conditions would continue to support economic activity for a long time to come.

The Bundesbank’s Executive Board has endorsed the nomination of Jens Weidmann for a second term of office as Bundesbank President. The Executive Board notified the Federal Government that it had no objections to the Federal Cabinet’s nomination.

The Deutsche Bundesbank was founded on 1 August 1957 and is now celebrating its 60th anniversary. The Bundesbank has not changed its monetary policy stance during this period and will remain committed to maintaining price stability in the future as well, writes Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann in a guest article on the occasion of the Bank’s 60th anniversary.

The Bundesbank has marked the passing of its former President Karl Otto Pöhl in a commemorative ceremony. "Today we mourn the passing of an outstanding figure in the world of central banking who was instrumental in paving the way for European monetary union," said Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann at a commemorative ceremony in Frankfurt am Main. Karl Otto Pöhl passed away on 9 December 2014 at the age of 85.

The Bundesbank posted a profit of €5.8 billion for the 2019 financial year. Following adjustment of the reserves, the Bank registered its highest distributable profit since 2008, at €5.9 billion. “Lower risk provisioning is the main reason for this strong rise in the profit for the year,” Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann explained.

The President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, visited the Czech National Bank yesterday. The main topics of his informal meeting with CNB Governor Jiří Rusnok and other members of the Board were the view of the Czech economy from outside and the situation of the German economy. The future of the euro area and the banking union were also discussed.