Bundesbank branches can pay out cash at any time, even in contingency and crisis situations – according to Executive Board member Johannes Beermann, comprehensive risk preparedness measures have put the Bundesbank in a good position to deal with such cases, too. At a meeting with the press in Frankfurt, he noted that successful crisis preparedness was predicated on interplay between all cash handlers, however.

The macro-financial environment has deteriorated substantially over the course of 2022. It has been shaped by subdued growth prospects, high inflation as well as rising interest rates and risk premia.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel, speaking at an event for Frankfurt economic journalists, has doubled down on his calls to set about downsizing the Eurosystem’s large stocks of bonds in the near future. “I can imagine no longer replacing maturing APP assets as from the beginning of next year,” he said. Mr Nagel is also expecting a further key interest rate hike to be decided at the ECB Governing Council’s December monetary policy meeting.

Die Deutsche Bundesbank hat erstmals eine digitale Ausstellung konzipiert und am Mittwoch eröffnet. „Schwarz-Rot-GOLD“ ist der Titel der innovativ gestalteten Sonderausstellung, in der Besucherinnen und Besucher alles vom Gold als Element über die Goldquellen und den Goldhandel bis zu den Goldreserven der Zentralbanken erfahren.

Die Deutsche Bundesbank konzentriert die stichprobenartige Münzgeldbearbeitung künftig auf ihre vier Filialen in Dortmund, Hamburg, Karlsruhe sowie Leipzig und gestaltet sie durch den Einsatz von Robotern ergonomischer und effizienter.

Contrary to expectations, German economic activity expanded in the third quarter of 2022, the Bundesbank writes in its current Monthly Report. Despite high inflation and uncertainty about future energy supply, real gross domestic product surpassed its pre-pandemic level for the first time. However, the Bundesbank’s experts believe that downward forces are likely to clearly predominate in the coming months. They still expect the German economy to enter a recession in the final quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023, though the scale of the recession is extremely uncertain. “Double-digit inflation could even persist into the new year,” the report states.