Given its public mandate to safeguard monetary stability, the Bundesbank has an inherent interest in ensuring a stable financial system. As an integral part of the European System of Central Banks, it also has an explicit mandate to contribute to financial stability.

The January 2018 edition of the Monthly Report describes how the internationalisation of German firms is impacting on domestic investment and analyses the importance of banks’ profitability and capital for monetary policy. It also looks at developments in corporate financing in the euro area and includes an article on the finalisation of Basel III.

The July 2012 monthly report contains: The euro as an anchor currency and core of a currency bloc; Deutsche Bundesbank Spring Conference 2012 – monetary policy, inflation and international linkages; The new CPSS-IOSCO Principles for financial market infrastructures.

The April 2012 monthly report contains: Potential growth of the German economy – medium-term outlook against the backdrop of demographic strains; The European Systemic Risk Board: from institutional foundation to credible macroprudential oversight

The Monthly Report September 2015 comments on the recent development in lending to euro-area non-financial corporations and describes the performance of German credit institutions in 2014.

The Monthly Report August 2015 comments on the economic situation in Germany in summer 2015.

The Monthly Report May 2015 comments on the economic situation in Germany in spring 2015.