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.

The MFI interest rate statistics is composed as a representative sample of around 240 institutions. The MFI interest rate statistics measure the interest rates applied by domestic banks (MFIs) and the corresponding volumes for euro-denominated lending and deposit business with households and non-financial corporations domiciled in the euro area.

Die Summe der Aktiva der Kreditinstitute mit Sitz in der EU erhöhte sich von 29,44 Billionen € im Dezember 2020 auf 30,44 Billionen € im Dezember 2021.

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.

President of the Deutsche Bundesbank 1 May 2011 - 31 Dec 2021