In its latest Monthly Report, the Bundesbank presents a detailed outlook for the German economy in 2015 and 2016, which was already published at the beginning of June. Additional focus lies on new instruments for measuring inflation expectations as well as on marketable financial instruments of banks and their role as collateral in the Eurosystem.

According to the current issue of its Monthly Report, the Bundesbank sees the German economy as having continued to pick up speed in the second quarter, with strong levels of consumption and the robust upswing in the export business being the main drivers of economic growth.

According to World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, extreme poverty, the threat of pandemics and climate change are the greatest challenges facing the world. In a speech given at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, he stressed the crucial importance of finance as the key to success in solving these problems.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret has paid a visit to Singapore to mark Min-Kyu Jang's appointment as the Bank's new representative in the country. In his speech, Mr Dombret talked about how close-knit the financial markets are, explaining that the Bundesbank was responding to this state of play in a number of ways, including seconding representatives to major financial centres around the world.

The Bundesbank has significantly raised its forecast for German economic growth for this year and the next. Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann expects the trajectory of growth to be sustained in equal measure by domestic and foreign demand. However, he sees risks of a setback to economic recovery in the euro area.

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the seven leading industrial economies (G7) have met in Dresden to discuss ways to achieve a more dynamic world economy and a stable financial system. Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann stressed the major importance of innovation, investment and structural reforms in this context.

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the seven most industrialised nations (G7) have come together in Dresden. Under Germany’s G7 presidency, they are discussing how to make the global economy more dynamic and the financial system more stable. Also on the agenda is greater cooperation for fairer taxation.

The Bundesbank believes that the European Commission's most recent actions weaken Europe's fiscal rules. Owing to numerous exceptions, frequent changes and the increasing complexity of the rules, it is now "barely possible" to apply them consistently, the Bundesbank argues in the current edition of its Monthly Report. It sees the weakening of the binding effect of the rules and of the incentives to ensure sound public finances in the euro area as a cause for concern.

The Bundesbank supports the European Commission's initiative to build a European Capital Markets Union (CMU). In a statement the Bundesbank said that closer integration of the European Union's capital markets could make the European financial system both more growth-friendly and shock-resistant.

The Bundesbank is expecting continued distinct economic growth in the coming months. According to the current issue of the Monthly Report, private consumption is the key driver of this growth. In the industrial sector, however, the Bundesbank's economists expect a more sluggish economic development.