The current good earnings situation is enabling institutions to further strengthen their capital base and thus their resilience to adverse developments,said Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the presentation of the 2023 Financial Stability Review. Even in adverse scenarios, financial institutions should have sufficient levels of capital and liquidity to be able to absorb shocks on their own. Resilience, noted Vice-President Buch, would also require investment in IT infrastructure in order to be equipped to deal with cyber risks.

The macroeconomic environment is being shaped by the interest rate reversal and heightened uncertainty. So far, the German financial system has coped well with the rise in interest rates over the last year, but the effects of this rise have not yet fully materialised. Structural change in the economy is also likely to further increase credit risk.

The financial stability reviews produced by the Bundesbank and other central banks have become a well-established tool, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said at an event held by the Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main to mark the 20th anniversary of the Financial Stability Review. At the event, Bundesbank Executive Board member Michael Theurer, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB Claudia Buch, and representatives from supervisory authorities, academia and banking discussed the challenges facing financial stability. 

The European Central Bank and numerous Eurosystem central banks are merging their representative offices in Brussels into a shared hub. A team from the Bundesbank will also be stationed at the House of the Euro.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat heute ihren Finanzstabilitätsbericht vom November 2023 veröffentlicht. Dem Bericht zufolge sind die Aussichten für die Finanzstabilität im Euroraum nach wie vor fragil, da die restriktiveren Finanzierungsbedingungen in einem Umfeld schwachen Wachstums, hoher Inflation und erhöhter geopolitischer Spannungen zunehmend auf die Realwirtschaft durchwirken.