Aus Sicht von Bundesbankvorstand Joachim Wuermeling ist die Bankenaufsicht mit dem einheitlichen Aufsichtsmechanismus SSM europaweit besser geworden. Der SSM habe sich auch bei schwierigen Fällen bewährt, sagte Wuermeling im Interview mit der Zeitung „Die Welt“.

Bundesbankvorstand Burkhard Balz hat ein gemeinsames digitales Zahlungssystem für Europa gefordert. Die großen Anbieter müssten sich an einen Tisch setzen und ein gemeinsames System entwickeln, sagte er in einem Interview. „Sonst werden sie in einem globalisierten Zahlungsverkehr bald keine Rolle mehr spielen.“ 

As the economy clouds over, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has cautioned against panic and action for action’s sake. “It’s become something of a habit for people to turn straight to monetary policymakers and demand a large-scale response,” he said in an interview with the Sunday newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. “I think that’s wrong,” he argued.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling has called for global rules governing digital crypto tokens in an interview with the Sunday newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. This was prompted by plans announced by Facebook to launch its own digital currency, which will be backed by assets such as short-term Bunds and US Treasuries.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer has dampened expectations about a possible tiering system for deposit rates, which would exclude some reserves held at the central bank from negative rates as a way of easing the burden on banks. “I wouldn’t make too much of that kind of relief,” she told the “Handelsblatt” newspaper, “nor has it been established whether there is even a monetary policy case for introducing a tiering system.”