In the context of payment and securities settlement systems, the Bundesbank acts not just as an operator of payment systems and as catalyst for desired changes on the market but is also entrusted with the task of oversight.

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.