Regulation of banks is essential to the stability of our financial system. But how appropriate is the time and effort for smaller, regional banks? In a guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bundesbank Executive Board member Michael Theurer and BaFin President Mark Branson highlight the challenges facing small banks in Europe and call for a novel approach to reducing EU-wide regulatory requirements for small banks without jeopardising safety standards.

The following table provides details of DM5 and DM10 commemorative coins minted in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as an overview of special issue DM Olympic coins to mark the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Overview of the research conferences of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

We are striving to make regulation clearer, more understandable and more efficient – while continuing to safeguard the stability of the banking system, said Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel at the Bundesbank’s 13th regulatory conference in Frankfurt. At the conference, representatives from banks and securities and insurance companies joined policymakers to discuss current opportunities and challenges for the financial industry and supervisors in Germany.