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.

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.

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

Demand for loans for house purchase and consumer credit rose sharply in Germany in the first quarter of 2015. This is revealed by the Bundesbank's most recent Bank Lending Survey in Germany. The increased demand was met with only a slight change in German credit institutions' credit standards.

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.

In the fourth quarter of 2014, the financial assets of households rose by just over €69 billion (ie 1.4%) on the quarter, climbing to a figure of €5,072 billion. Together with the transaction-related acquisition of financial assets which totalled just over €40.5 billion, valuation gains in the amount of around €28.5 billion contributed to this increase in assets.