In November 2024, around 80 experts from over 40 countries met in Frankfurt for the second gold conference. The event provided a valuable platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience on issues relating to the management and handling of gold reserves.

I dream of a social art, wrote Victor Vasarely as early as 1953 in his “Notes Brutes” [Rough notes]. The crowds, the masses, a multitude of beings, this is the new dimension. See the unlimited space, the truth of structures. Art is the plastic aspect of the community.

At the end of 2024, Germany’s net external assets totalled €3,452 billion, thus amounting to around 80 % of the country’s nominal gross domestic product (GDP). Overall, both assets and liabilities vis-à-vis non-residents rose further in 2024. 

Die Finanzsanktionen gegen bestimmte Personen, Organisationen und Einrichtungen angesichts der Lage in der Ukraine dienen der Durchführung von Maßnahmen der Europäischen Union.

The Bundesbank has two stand-alone representative offices – one in New York and the other in Tokyo and many Bundesbank representatives, who are posted at German embassies or consulates general all over the world.