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Cash or girocard payments remain the least expensive types of payment for retailers. According to the latest Bundesbank study The cost of payment methods in the retail sector, the average cost per cash payment amounts to only €0.43. In terms of the ratio of cost to turnover, the girocard is the most cost-effective method, at an average cost of 1 % of turnover.

Der gewichtete Indikator der Kreditfinanzierungskosten für neue Kredite an Unternehmen blieb weitgehend stabil und belief sich auf 3,51 %. Der entsprechende Indikator für neue Wohnungsbaukredite an private Haushalte war mit 3,31 % unverändert

The German government has decided to mint a €5 collectors’ coin entitled “Red-tailed bumblebee”, to be issed at 7 November 2024.

Both Germany and Europe as a whole should be more confident in how they present themselves to the rest of the world. We mustn’t sell ourselves short, Mr Nagel said. In an interview with Capital and Stern, the Bundesbank President discussed growth forces in Germany and an increased statutory retirement age, as well as the urgent need for investment and reducing bureaucracy.