The Bundesbank brings its expertise to numerous European and international bodies and organisations in which issues concerning financial stability and the financial and monetary system are analysed and policy measures are coordinated.

The G20 is currently considered the main forum for international economic cooperation and is therefore at the heart of multilateral financial diplomacy. Since its inception in 1999, the G20 has primarily focused on managing financial crises, strengthening the financial sectors of emerging market countries, enhancing the Bretton Woods institutions and developing growth strategies.

Statistics about payments in Germany serve primarily as an important data source for establishing, managing and monitoring payment and securities settlement systems. In addition, statistics about the structure and scope of the payments are used in tandem with monetary statistical indicators for analysis at national and international levels.

The German banking sector is currently stable overall, with sound capital and liquidity buffers – that’s good news, Bundesbank Executive Board member Michael Theurer stressed at the digital supervisory briefing, an event organised by the Bundesbank and BaFin. Together with Annika Sattler from the Bundesbank, Theurer and BaFin Chief Executive Director Nikolas Speer spoke about the risk situation, simplification and proportionality. Participants from the worlds of banking and supervision numbered more than 5,000 at times during the digital supervisory briefing, which was streamed live.

Once a year, teachers are invited to the Bundesbank to talk about current central banking issues. Lutz Lienenkämper, the Executive Board member whose responsibilities include economic education, conferred with teachers about financial literacy in schools, the current stance of monetary policy and the digital euro.

Die Erwartungen zur Gesamtinflation und zur HVPI-Kerninflation sind über alle Zeithorizonte hinweg unverändert. Die Erwartungen für das Wachstum des realen BIP sind mit Ausnahme einer leichten Aufwärtsrevision für 2026 unverändert. Die Erwartungen zur Arbeitslosenquote sind für 2026 und 2027 unverändert, doch danach etwas geringer.

TARGET2-Securities (T2S) is the name of the Eurosystem project to offer a new, harmonised and centralised method of settling securities in central bank money.

Der EZB-Rat hat heute beschlossen, die drei Leitzinssätze der EZB unverändert zu belassen. Unsere
aktualisierte Beurteilung bestätigt erneut, dass sich die Inflation auf mittlere Sicht bei unserem Zielwert
von 2 % stabilisieren dürfte.