The Bundesbank posted a profit of €2.0 billion for the 2017 financial year, representing a year-on-year increase of €1.0 billion. Distributable profit amounted to €1.9 billion.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling is calling for the financial centres of the European Union to come together to work as a single networked financial platform. At present, their overall potential is spread across the entire continent, he writes in an oped for the Handelsblatt. In his view, a digital financial market union "would be a highly ambitious new project that would be worth the effort to make it work".

Die Europäische Zentralbank leitet heute eine öffentliche Konsultation zu einem Entwurf der Grundsätze ein, die ihren Erwartungen an den internen Prozess zur Beurteilung der Angemessenheit des Kapitals und den internen Prozess zur Beurteilung der Angemessenheit der Liquidität der Banken zugrunde liegen.