The July 2012 monthly report contains: The euro as an anchor currency and core of a currency bloc; Deutsche Bundesbank Spring Conference 2012 – monetary policy, inflation and international linkages; The new CPSS-IOSCO Principles for financial market infrastructures.

The September 2017 Monthly Report contains an article on monetary policy indicators at the zero lower bound on the basis of term structure models, and an analysis of the performance of German credit institutions in 2016. Explanations are also provided on the potential and risks of distributed ledger technologies in payments and securities settlement and on the changes and results in the process of extending the investment fund statistics.

The purpose of this publication by the Deutsche Bundesbank is to provide information about the Countercyclical Capital Buffer (CCB), a new tool for macroprudential regulation.

The January 2018 edition of the Monthly Report describes how the internationalisation of German firms is impacting on domestic investment and analyses the importance of banks’ profitability and capital for monetary policy. It also looks at developments in corporate financing in the euro area and includes an article on the finalisation of Basel III.