In operational terms, ongoing supervision involves evaluating documentation, reports, annual financial statements and audit as well as inspection reports, requesting of further information and, on the basis of the data collected, assessing the supervised institutions’ current and potential risks. The workload also includes conducting routine and, in consultation with BaFin, ad hoc supervisory meetings with respective institutions.

With over 90,000 coins and around 260,000 banknotes from all over the world, the Bundesbank’s carefully selected numismatic collection is one of the most important of its kind worldwide.

The German government has decided to mint a €5 collectors’ coin entitled “Marmelade hoverfly”, to be issed at 13 June 2024.

on the topic of Statistics of the banks' profit and loss accounts