Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says the economic recovery looks set to continue, particularly in the United States and the euro area. Speaking as the IMF's Annual Meeting in Lima drew to a close, he also stressed that monetary policy is not a silver bullet that can eliminate weak growth.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has urged a timely exit from the ultra-accommodative monetary policy. In a speech delivered in Berlin, he stressed that sovereign asset purchases should not shift the red line representing the border to monetary financing of governments.

The Bundesbank and the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) have welcomed the endorsement of the Basel III reform package, which will see new capital adequacy rules for banks come into force in 2022, with phase-in arrangements lasting until the end of 2026. Commenting on the reform, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says a major lesson has been learned from the financial crisis.

Bundesbankpräsident Dr. Jens Weidmann und Bundesbankvorstand Dr. h.c. Rudolf Böhmler haben heute gemeinsam mit Alexa Ahmad, Geschäftsführerin der pme Familienservice Gruppe, die neue betriebseigene Kindertagesstätte der Deutschen Bundesbank eröffnet.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has cautioned against increasing mutual liability in the euro area and thus weakening the principle of individual national responsibility. Addressing an audience in Frankfurt am Main, Mr Weidmann said that while the fiscal rescue measures had prevented the crisis from escalating, they had not made the euro area permanently crisis-proof.

Growing numbers of consumers in Germany are using electronic payment methods, says Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has warned that the budgetary rules in the euro-area countries should not be interpreted too flexibly. Speaking at an event in Biberach, Mr Weidmann said that sound budgets were a key prerequisite for the stability of the single currency, for which every member state was responsible.

The Eurosystem should not maintain its current accommodative monetary policy stance indefinitely, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says. Speaking at an event in Leipzig, he said it is legitimate to ask whether it would not have been better to set a clear end-date for the recently extended asset purchase programme.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has voiced concerns over the continued ultra-loose monetary policy in the Eurosystem. The longer policy remains highly accommodative, the more the attendant risks and side-effects will come into play, he told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. The key to resolving the euro-area crisis, he said, lies with politicians, not with central banks.

Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann hat auf der Bilanz-PK den Jahresabschluss der Bundesbank bekanntgegeben. 
Die Bundesbank hat  2018 einen Bilanzgewinn  von 2,4 Milliarden Euro erzielt. Dieser wird in voller Höhe an das Bundesfinanzministerium überwiesen.