In order to make the SEPA migration more customer friendly, payment service providers may provide customers with conversion services for a transitional period up to 1 February 2016.

Electronic submission of stock reports on residents' assets abroad and non-residents' assets in Germany.

New York, Tokio, London, Singapur – mit ihrem Netz an Repräsentanzen ist die Bundesbank an den wichtigsten Finanzplätzen der Welt vertreten. Am Standort Singapur wurde nun der neue Repräsentant Matthias Vogel feierlich in sein Amt eingeführt. Für eine Zentralbank sei diese Region ein Ort des Lernens, erklärte Bundesbankvorstand Burkhard Balz in seiner Rede zur Amtseinführungsfeier. „Kaum irgendwo sonst entwickelt sich die Welt der Zahlungen so dynamisch wie hier."

Digital sovereignty is key to ensuring that Germany and Europe remain competitive and capable of action, explains a paper published by Fritzi Köhler-Geib, member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, together with Claudia Plattner, President of the Federal Office for Information Security, and Kristina Sinemus, Hesse’s Minister for Digitalisation and Innovation. In the paper, they propose implementation-oriented measures for strengthening digital sovereignty.

These national public finance statistics contain data on the budgetary developments of central, state and local government, the social security funds and general government according to the definition in the German public finance statistics, which is largely based on transactions booked in the budgets.