The Bundesbank: key figures
| 2024 | 2025 |
Staff1 |
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|---|---|---|
Core staff (full-time equivalents) | 10,207 | 10,333 |
Contraction since 31 December 20012 | 4,593 (= 31.0 %) | 4,467 (= 30.2 %) |
Locations / core staff (full-time equivalents)1 |
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Central Office | 1 / 5,791 | 1 / 6,199 |
Regional offices | 9 / 2,415 | 9 / 2,128 |
Branches | 31 / 2,001 | 31 / 2,006 |
Annual accounts1 |
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Distributable profit | − €19,153 million | - 27.787 million |
Net interest income | − €13,059 million | − €4,167 million |
Total assets | €2,372,647 million | €2,348,978 million |
Foreign reserve assets (total) | €363.7 billion | €481.8 billion |
Foreign currency | €34.0 billion | €31.9 billion |
Receivables from the IMF | €59.2 billion | €54.7 billion |
Gold | (3,352 t) €270.6 billion | (3,350 t) €395.2 billion |
Allocation across the various storage locations: |
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Frankfurt | (1,710 t) €138.1 billion | (1,710 t) €201.7 billion |
New York | (1,236 t) €99.8 billion | (1,236 t) €145.8 billion |
London | (405 t) €32.7 billion | (404 t) €47.7 billion |
ECB capital key1 |
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Share of subscribed capital | 21.7749 % | 21.7749 % |
Share of paid-up capital | 26.6301 % | 26.3152 % |
Amount of the participating interest in the ECB | €2.36 billion | €2.36 billion |
Foreign reserve assets transferred to the ECB | €10.80 billion | €10.80 billion |
Monetary policy operations |
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Open market operations in the euro area |
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Main refinancing operations | €17.0 billion | €25.0 billion |
Longer-term refinancing operations3 | €17.2 billion | €11.7 billion |
of which counterparties of the Bundesbank | €3.5 billion | €3.2 billion |
Banks participating in refinancing operations (total) | 88 | 111 |
of which via the Bundesbank | 27 | 48 |
Standing facilities |
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Marginal lending facility in the euro area | €0.048 billion | €0.0 billion |
Deposit facility in the euro area | €2,799.01 billion | €2,399.85 billion |
Asset purchase programmes (Bundesbank’s share)1 |
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CBPP3 portfolio | €64.9 billion | €55.2 billion |
PSPP portfolio | €447.3 billion | €392.6 billion |
CSPP portfolio | €63.7 billion | €53.8 billion |
PEPP public sector portfolio | €325.1 billion | €278.7 billion |
PEPP corporate sector portfolio | €8.7 billion | €8.0 billion |
PEPP covered bonds portfolio | €1.3 billion | €1.1 billion |
Cash payments |
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Volume of euro banknotes in circulation (Eurosystem)1 | €1,588.3 billion | €1,619.5 billion |
Volume of coins in circulation (Eurosystem)1 | €34.5 billion | €35.4 billion |
Returned DEM banknotes and coins | DEM 53.1 million | DEM 53.1 million |
Unreturned DEM banknotes and coins | DEM 12.18 billion | DEM 12.13 billion |
Incidence of counterfeit money in Germany |
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Euro banknotes (number) | 72,413 | 69,909 |
Euro coins (number) | 141,332 | 128,132 |
Cashless payments |
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Payments via the Bundesbank (number of transactions) | 8,487.7 million | 8,531.5 million |
of which via RPS | 8,294.8 million | 8,213.5 million |
of which via TARGET-Bundesbank | 190.3 million | 315.4 million |
payment transactions in T24 | 53.4 million | 53.1 million |
payment transactions in TIPS | 62.5 million | 175.2 million |
settlement of securities transactions in T2S | 74.4 million | 87.0 million |
Payments via the Bundesbank (value) | €308.9 trillion | €293.3 trillion |
of which via RPS | €4.8 trillion | €5.0 trillion |
of which via TARGET-Bundesbank | €263.5 trillion | €286.2 trillion |
payment transactions in T24 | €184.7 trillion | €196.0 trillion |
payment transactions in TIPS | €56.3 billion | €183.7 billion |
settlement of securities transactions in T2S | €78.7 trillion | €90.0 trillion |
Banking supervision |
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Number of institutions supervised | 2,723 | 2,602 |
Number of institutions supervised (post-2025 count)5 | - | 2,731 |
On-site inspections | 150 | 159 |
Cooperation with foreign central banks |
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Training and advisory events | 270 | 271 |
Number of participants (total) | 2,573 | 2,610 |
Number of participating countries (total) | 104 | 110 |
Selected publications |
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Annual Report | 1 | 1 |
Financial Stability Review | 1 | 1 |
Monthly Report | 12 | 12 |
Statistical Series | 104 | 104 |
Research Centre discussion papers | 46 | 36 |
Technical papers | 12 | 5 |
Publications in academic journals | 51 | 50 |
External communication / public relations |
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Visitors to the Money Museum | 47,125 | 49,694 |
Economic education events / number of participants | 1,771 / 49,243 | 1,711 / 48,909 |
Written answers to queries | 19,691 | 14,607 |
Press releases | 495 | 574 |
Training sessions on counterfeit prevention / number of participants | 2,000 / 39,900 | 1,862 / 37,472 |
1 As at 31 December. 2 Core staff (full-time equivalents) as at 31 December 2001 (year before the structural reform began): 14,800. 3 Including targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs), excluding US dollar tenders. 4 The statistical methodology used for T2 statistics was changed in 2025 with retroactive effect from March 2023 (operational launch). Settled values are primarily affected. As a result, the figures shown here for the reference year of 2024 deviate from those listed in the 2024 Annual Report. 5 Since 2025, the number of supervised institutions has also included credit service institutions, under Section 1 of the Act on the Secondary Market for Non-Performing Loans and Credit Services Institutions (Kreditzweitmarktgesetz), crypto-asset service providers, under Article 60 of the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCAR), investment holding companies, under Section 61 of the Investment Institutions Act (Wertpapierinstitutsgesetzes), and financial holding companies, under Section 2f of the Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz). | ||