Pictures and information on the national sides of the coins in circulation in Croatia.

Pictures and informations on the national sides of the coins in circulation in Austria.

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Unstructured data hold a wealth of potential for both individual institutions and the financial system as a whole, says Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling. Leveraging the data in a way that maximises the benefits and minimises the risks is what counts, he remarked at BaFinTech 2023, a joint Bundesbank-BaFin event in Berlin. He also warned that excessive legal constraints risk dampening the huge innovative potential offered by artificial intelligence.

Pictures and information on the national sides of the coins in circulation in Greece.

Wir führen in regelmäßigen Abständen Vor-Ort-Kontrollen bei den Bargeldakteuren durch.

The German economy is under considerable pressure to adapt, writes the Bundesbank in its September Monthly Report. Challenges are arising mainly from demographic change and the transition to a low-emission energy supply. Moreover, dependency on China for the procurement of key intermediate inputs entails risk. In the midset of the current debate concerning Germany’s alleged status as the “sick man of Europe”, the Bundesbank still sees the German economy as well positioned. According to our analyses, broad-based deindustrialisation is not on the table either, says Marcus Jüppner, co-author of the report. 

German credit institutions’ performance tended to deteriorate in 2022, Bundesbank experts write in the current issue of the Monthly Report. Profit for the financial year before tax did manage to creep up on the whole and, at €27.4 billion, remained well above the long-term average. However, this was driven mainly by a one-off effect at one institution. According to the Bundesbank, most categories of banks recorded significantly lower annual profit for the reporting year than in 2021.