Gaetan talks about his journey to becoming a Bundesbank data warehouse architect and how he takes advantage of the working conditions at the Bundesbank to do his job.

The nominal effective exchange rates of the euro condense bilateral exchange rates against multiple countries into a single index. As an aggregate, they capture changes in euro exchange rates against various groups of currencies of key trading partners.

Alongside the functional documents, there is also information that does not directly relate to the functioning of TIPS. This includes, for instance, the TARGET Services pricing guide.

The auction procedure is used for issuing Federal bonds, five-year Federal notes, Federal Treasury notes and Treasury discount paper. The terms of each Federal security to be issued by auction are published.

There are various documents available explaining how TIPS works, including, amongst others, the Guide for TARGET Participants, the User Detailed Functional Specifications and the user handbooks. These and further documents can be found here.