Am 28. Juli 2022 erließ der EZB-Rat die Leitlinie EZB/2022/28 zur Änderung der Leitlinie 2008/596/EG über die Verwaltung von Währungsreserven der Europäischen Zentralbank durch die nationalen Zentralbanken sowie über die Rechtsdokumentation bei Geschäften mit diesen Währungsreserven.

In einer neuen Sonderausstellung im Geldmuseum zeigt die Bundesbank Karikaturen und satirische Kritik rund um das Thema Geld. Die Exponate regen zum Nachdenken über Geld, seine Funktionen und den Umgang damit an, sagte Vorstandsmitglied Burkhard Balz, zuständig für ökonomische Bildung, zur Eröffnung. Die Ausstellung „Geld in Karikatur und Satire“ ist vom 20. September 2022 bis zum 29. Oktober 2023 im Geldmuseum der Bundesbank in Frankfurt zu sehen.

The Bundesbank’s experts see mounting signs of the German economy sliding into a recession. According to the current issue of the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report, economic output is likely to decline somewhat in the current quarter and to shrink significantly in the final quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The economists put this largely down to the extremely tight energy supply situation.

According to the most recent issue of the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report, German credit institutions recorded a strong improvement in performance in 2021 compared with the year before. Profit for the financial year before tax was up €12.8 billion, hitting almost double the previous year’s figure at €27.1 billion – a development which the report primarily attributes to the fact that banks significantly scaled back their risk provisioning compared with 2020 and also released some of the risk provisions that they had formed that year. However, the current year could see the profitability of German banks dampened, in particular, by the repercussions of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine. The report explains that this might increasingly impair economic growth, which would increase the likelihood of credit losses.