According to Executive Board Member Joachim Wuermeling, digitalisation and sustainable finance pose unprecedented challenges for supervisors. “In some areas, they have exposed the limits of our current approach to supervision. And they are forcing us to adapt.” Wuermeling said at a conference in Munich.

Die Arbeitsgruppe des privaten Sektors zu risikofreien Euro-Zinssätzen hat einen Bericht mit Empfehlungen für die Umstellung auf die neuen risikofreien Zinssätze aus der Perspektive des Risikomanagements veröffentlicht.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann warned that a full-blown trade war between the US and the EU could cost both sides dearly. "The adverse effects might be considerable larger than in case of the trade spat with China“, he said in a speech in New York.