Die Leistungsbilanz wies im Oktober 2021 einen Überschuss von 18 Mrd € aus (unverändert gegenüber dem Vormonat).

The Central Bank Council of the Bank deutscher Länder and its successor authority, the Bundesbank, was almost exclusively a men’s-only club: from 1948 until it was replaced by the Executive Board in the aftermath of the structural reform in 2002, only one woman – Julia Dingwort-Nusseck – managed to become a member of this body. On this Wednesday, 6 October 2021, she celebrates her 100th birthday in Hamburg. She is the oldest ever former member of the Central Bank Council.

The German economy will experience a setback in the final quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 on account of the pandemic, but is set to pick up significant momentum again in spring of next year. “The upswing has been slightly delayed,” said Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann at the presentation of his institution’s current projections. According to these projections, gross domestic product will increase by 2.5% this year – less strongly than anticipated back in June – in light of the dip in growth. Over the next two years, calendar adjusted economic growth will then rebound to 4.2% and 3.2%, respectively.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) unternimmt heute den nächsten Schritt im Projekt zur Entwicklung des Integrated Reporting Framework (IReF). Dieses harmonisierte statistische Meldewesen soll den Banken die Meldung statistischer Daten an das Europäische System der Zentralbanken (ESZB) erleichtern und durch einen stärkeren Einsatz digitaler Technik und aktueller Produktionsorganisation ihren Meldeaufwand verringern.