The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are being held in Washington, DC, this coming weekend. G20 finance ministers and central bank governors will also be convening on the sidelines of these meetings from 17 to 19 April. One of the main topics at the meeting will be organisational reforms at the International Monetary Fund.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann voiced his opposition to proposals for economic policy measures to counteract German current account surpluses. It would be "absurd", Weidmann said, to discuss measures aimed at artificially weakening German competitiveness.

The Bundesbank is expecting economic growth in Germany to remain quite robust. According to the current issue of the Monthly Report, the underlying pace of economic activity is still high. The Bundesbank’s economists believe that private consumption will be the main driver of growth.

Im Februar 2015 war der Bestand an von Investmentfonds (ohne Geldmarktfonds) im Euro-Währungsgebiet begebenen Anteilen 301 Mrd € höher als im Januar 2015. Maßgeblich hierfür waren vor allem Kursanstiege bei Investmentfondsanteilen.

German credit institutions only marginally adjusted their lending policies in all three surveyed lines of business in the first quarter of 2015.

Am 15. April 2015 billigte der EZB-Rat Änderungen des ersten Verzeichnisses der im Euro-Währungsgebiet ansässigen Emittenten mit Förderauftrag, die für das PSPP zugelassene Wertpapiere ausgeben.