Writing in its latest Annual Economic Report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that the global economy risks entering a new era of high inflation. “The key for central banks is to act quickly and decisively before inflation becomes entrenched,” says Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the BIS.

Demographic developments will put the finances of the pension insurance scheme under pressure in future. The Bundesbank’s experts present long-term simulations on this topic in the current Monthly Report. These simulations illustrate how the government plans to achieve a permanently stable replacement rate of 48% would affect the pension contribution rate and the federal budget. They also show the effects of two reform options on the replacement rate, the contribution rate and the federal budget. Both options are international standard practice. One ties pensions in payment to inflation, whilst the other links the retirement age to rising life expectancy.

The Deutsche Bundesbank generally provides to other central banks the same range of services available to cash business partners. Moreover, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Banco de España provide services to national central banks through the Cash Processing Center (CPC).

Am 19. Mai 2022 billigte der EZB-Rat den Bericht über die internationale Rolle des Euro und genehmigte die Veröffentlichung des Dokuments auf der Website der EZB. Der Bericht enthält einen Überblick darüber, wie sich die Verwendung des Euro durch Ansässige außerhalb des Euroraums im Jahr 2021 entwickelt hat.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel has warned that central banks must not respond to the current high inflation rates with too little, too late. “If monetary policy falls behind the curve, even stronger hikes in interest rates could become necessary to get inflation under control,” he said at the Joint Spring Conference co-hosted by the Bundesbank and the Banque de France in Eltville am Rhein. “This would create much higher economic costs,” he cautioned.