The Bundesbank posted a profit of €4.6 billion for the 2013 financial year, after recording a surplus of €664 million in 2012. This amount was transferred in full today to the Federal Government of Germany pursuant to section 27 number 2 of the Bundesbank Act (Bundesbankgesetz).

The emergency monetary policy measures taken in response to the coronavirus pandemic have impacted noticeably on the Deutsche Bundesbank’s balance sheet. Given the attendant risks, the Bundesbank has therefore stepped up its provisions for general risks.

The Commercial Real Estate Price Index (GIP) was developed through a collaboration between vdpResearch and the Deutsche Bundesbank and is based on transaction data reported to vdpResearch by a large number of banks regarding their financing activities.

The Bundesbank is not distributing a profit to the Federal Government for 2020 – for the first time since 1979. The main reason was the greater level of risk provisioning, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann explained at the press conference to present the annual accounts in Frankfurt am Main. In the previous year, the Bundesbank distributed a profit of €5.9 billion. On the whole, the emergency monetary policy measures taken in response to the coronavirus pandemic are having a noticeable impact on the Bundesbank’s balance sheet. 

"The profit is lower than in the previous year mainly because of the decline in interest income," Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann explained at the Bundesbank’s annual press conference.