The Bundesbank’s Money Museum stand at the Embankment Festival in Frankfurt am Main attracted around 16,500 visitors. Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann himself visited the stand and took the opportunity to strike a souvenir coin.

EZB stellt die Leitfadenkapitel über Kreditrisiko, Marktrisiko und Gegenparteiausfallrisiko öffentlich zur Konsultation. Konsultationsphase endet am 7. November 2018. Risikoartenspezifische Kapitel zeigen auf, wie die EZB ein einheitliches Verständnis des bestehenden rechtlichen Rahmenwerks sicherstellen will.

Sabine Mauderer and Burkhard Balz took up office as members of the Executive Board of the Bundesbank on 1 September. Ms. Mauderer and Mr. Balz, both lawyers by training, are succeeding Carl-Ludwig Thiele and Andreas Dombret, who stepped down from the Executive Board at the end of April 2018.

This year saw the Carl Menger Prize for Economics awarded to economist Silvana Tenreyro. Achim Wambach presented her with the award, which comes with prize money of €20,000, at the annual meeting of the German Economic Association in Freiburg.

Dr Sabine Mauderer and Burkhard Balz took up office as members of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank on Monday. The Bundesbank's Executive Board has therefore reshuffled its areas of responsibility.

Deutsche Börse and the Bundesbank are jointly exploring ways to employ blockchain technology in securities settlement. They unveiled a new prototype in Frankfurt am Main.