The Bundesbank has a dedicated credit assessment system to assess the credit quality of debtors of non-marketable assets. Credit assessment goes back a long way at the Bundesbank. Counterparties can use the Bank's credit assessment to determine an enterprise's or debtor's eligibility in the context of their monetary policy operations.

A further milestone has now been reached with the adopted environmental programme: This programme contains a large number of concrete measures with which we can reliably achieve our goal of "25 to 25".

Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann hat vor den Risiken und Nebenwirkungen der ultra-expansiven Geldpolitik des Eurosystems gewarnt. Unter anderem werde die Disziplinierung der Finanzpolitik durch die Finanzmärkte erheblich geschwächt, sagte Weidmann bei einer Veranstaltung in Essen.