Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has spoken out against increasing the liquidity assistance provided by the Eurosystem to Greece. If short-term assistance was thought to be necessary, it was up to politicians to provide it, he said at a Bundesbank conference in Frankfurt am Main. Greece needed to keep capital controls in place until an appropriate support package had been agreed by all parties and the solvency of both the Greek government and the Greek banking system had been ensured, said Mr Weidmann.

on the subject of External sector

The German economy is likely to grow slightly in the third quarter of 2025, the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report states. Despite continued unfavourable investment conditions for firms and additional burdens caused by the new US tariffs, there were no signs of any major setbacks for industry. It got off to a surprisingly strong start in the third quarter. A recovery in construction output is yet to materialise, however. Private consumption is likely to increase slightly, if at all, as the labour market is not providing any strong stimulus at present. The inflation rate rose to 2.1 % in August.

T2 hat im März 2023 die bis dahin von den Zentralbanken des Eurosystems bereitgestellte Plattform für die schnelle Abwicklung von Großbetragszahlungen in Echtzeit, TARGET2, abgelöst. Mit der Betriebsaufnahme des neuen T2-Services werden den Teilnehmern Komponenten für das zentrale Liquiditätsmanagement (Central Liquidity Management, CLM) aller TARGET-Services und für den klassischen Individualzahlungsverkehr zur Verfügung gestellt (Real-Time-Gross-Settlement, RTGS). 

The Bundesbank has a dedicated credit assessment system to assess the credit quality of debtors of non-marketable assets. Credit assessment goes back a long way at the Bundesbank. Counterparties can use the Bank's credit assessment to determine an enterprise's or debtor's eligibility in the context of their monetary policy operations.