Topics: House price increases since 2010: determinants and regional dependencies, Macroeconomic approaches for assessing price competitiveness, International cooperation in the area of financial sector policies – the Financial Stability Board

Effective immediately, the Deutsche Bundesbank is offering an optimised version of its website for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The Bundesbank has adapted its website to respond to different screen sizes, providing tablet and smartphone users with quicker access to current topics and content. The desktop view, on the other hand, is unchanged.

Germany’s financial links with the rest of the world continued to increase in 2012.

Since the beginning of 2011, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) have been observing and analysing the impact of the stricter international capital rules and the new liquidity standards (Basel III) in semi-annual “Basel III monitoring exercises”.

The Deutsche Bundesbank is rolling out a large-scale information campaign this Saturday to inform the public about the introduction of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Print advertisements and web banners featuring a variety of themes will be published in order to further the preparations for the new European payments regime.

In April 2013, a survey of foreign exchange and derivatives market activity was carried out by central banks in 53 countries, including all the major financial centres.In consultation with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), these surveys have been carried out every three years since 1989.