The Commercial Real Estate Price Index (GIP) was developed through a collaboration between vdpResearch and the Deutsche Bundesbank and is based on transaction data reported to vdpResearch by a large number of banks regarding their financing activities.

Overview of the most important content-related amendments to the external reporting system.

In connection with CashEDI the following documents are available as download

Das Europäische Parlament hat diese Woche seine Position zum Single Currency Package verabschiedet. Das ist ein weiterer wichtiger Schritt für den digitalen Euro. Zugleich wird die Rolle von Bargeld als gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel gestärkt. Im Interview mit der FAZ spricht Burkhard Balz darüber, wie die nächsten Schritte nun aussehen.

Information about investment funds (public and specialised funds), inter alia about the amounts of assets of investment funds, the number of units outstanding and sales in units, issue and repurchase prices per unit as well as sales receipts and fund repurchases.

Bureaucracy costs for firms in Germany have risen significantly in recent years. A new Bundesbank analysis quantifies the rise in bureaucracy costs. On average, they increased between 2022 and 2024 from around 5% to around 7% of annual turnover. Bureaucracy is placing a particularly heavy burden on smaller enterprises, according to the Bundesbank’s latest Monthly Report.

German banks tightened their credit standards for loans to enterprises, for housing loans to households as well as for consumer credit and other loans to households in the second quarter 2026.

The ECB requires credit institutions to hold compulsory deposits on accounts with the national central banks: these are called “minimum” or “required” reserves. The amount of required reserves that each credit institution has to hold is determined by its reserve base multiplied by a minimum reserve ratio.