Stable money is a precious public good. It protects savers and income earners from the erosion of wealth while promoting growth and employment. The primary objective of monetary policy in the euro area is therefore to ensure price stability. The President of the Bundesbank is involved in making monetary policy decisions as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. The Bundesbank is charged with implementing these decisions in Germany.

In its function as Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank answers enquiries concerning historical German currencies and calculates long-term purchasing power equivalents.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) veröffentlicht heute einen Bericht mit dem Titel "Euro Money Market Survey 2010", in dem die wichtigsten Entwicklungen am Geldmarkt des Euro-Währungsgebiets im zweiten Quartal 2010 gegenüber dem entsprechenden Vorjahrszeitraum dargestellt werden.

TARGET stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system and is the settlement system used by Eurosystem central banks for urgent, real-time transfers.

The European sovereign debt crisis was characterised by the fact that some euro area countries, owing to their high levels of debt – caused in part by efforts to counter the consequences of the global financial crisis – experienced difficulties refinancing their debt and, in some cases, lost access to capital market funding. In order to protect monetary policy transmission and safeguard sufficient liquidity provision for the financial system, the ECB Governing Council adopted various non-standard measures during the course of the crisis that went beyond the scope of the usual operational framework at that time.

The focus of interest rate statistics is the interest rates applied by domestic banks (MFIs) in Germany and the related volumes of euro-denominated deposits and loans vis-à-vis households and non-financial corporations domiciled in euro-area countries.

What does the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) among firms mean for the financial industry and financial supervision? How is the increasing digitalisation of payments affecting the financial industry? At BaFinTech, a two-day industry conference co-hosted by the Bundesbank and BaFin in Berlin, representatives of the two authorities discussed digital innovations and the associated risks and rewards with both the financial sector and experts from academia and industry.