Die Leistungsbilanz wies 2020 einen Überschuss in Höhe von 250 Mrd € (2,2 % des BIP im Euroraum) auf, verglichen mit einem Überschuss von 280 Mrd € (2,3 % des BIP) im Jahr 2019.

Deutsche Bundesbank together with Deutsche Börse Group and Germany’s Finance Agency have developed and successfully tested a settlement interface for electronic securities. Securities settlement using distributed ledger technology (DLT) is performed with the aid of a trigger solution in TARGET2.

Der tagesdurchschnittliche Umsatz der Geldaufnahme im unbesicherten Segment stieg von 120 Mrd € in der achten Mindestreserve-Erfüllungsperiode 2020 auf 121 Mrd € in der ersten Mindestreserve-Erfüllungsperiode 2021.

The ExtraNet is the Deutsche Bundesbank’s e-business-platform. Each counterparty wishing to use MACCs must first register users with the relevant roles in ExtraNet.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says financing conditions play a crucial role on the road to price stability, but there’s more to it than just glancing at the indicators. If those indicators flag changes, he states, the job of central banks is to analyse exactly how those changes came about. “I believe that financing terms should be able to evolve in line with the economic recovery in the euro area. It’s not a matter of using monetary policy to cement a particular interest rate level,” Mr Weidmann said in a speech delivered virtually in Frankfurt.