The turn of the year saw Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer take office as Chair of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a global group of central banks and supervisory authorities committed to forging a more sustainable financial system. The NGFS’s mission is to analyse what climate change and nature loss mean for the financial system

According to preliminary calculations by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), price-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023 was 0.3% lower than a year earlier. The calendar-adjusted decline in economic output was 0.1%. According to Destatis, high prices at all stages of the economy dampened economic activity. This was joined by unfavourable financing conditions due to rising interest rates and lower demand from Germany and abroad. 

Gabriele works as a translator in the language service of the Deutsche Bundesbank and has a congenital visual impairment. She mainly translates the ECB's publications, but also documents from the Bundesbank's various areas of responsibility. 

Aggregierte harte Kernkapitalquote im dritten Quartal 2023 bei 15,61 % (nach 15,72 % im Vorquartal und 14,74 % im dritten Quartal 2022).

Das Emissionsvolumen am deutschen Rentenmarkt belief sich im November 2023 auf brutto 123,6 Mrd € (Vormonat: 130,3 Mrd €). Nach Abzug der im Vergleich zum Vormonat geringeren Tilgungen und unter Berücksichtigung der Eigenbestandsveränderungen der Emittenten stieg der Umlauf heimischer Rentenwerte um 18,1 Mrd €.