Since 4 January 2010
President of the Regional Office in Berlin and Brandenburg

Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz calls for Europe to become more independent where the critical infrastructure of payments is concerned.

Director General Strategy and Innovation

Director General Cash Management

Director General Human Resources

Director General Information Technology

Die Finanzsanktionen gegen Myanmar/Birma dienen der Durchführung von Maßnahmen der Europäischen Union.

EZB verhängt Bußgelder in Höhe von insgesamt 1,685 Mio. € gegen Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat, Luxembourg. Bank verstieß gegen Meldevorschriften für das Markt- und Kreditrisiko.

Director General Payments and Settlement Systems

Director General Markets

Director General Administration

Director General Controlling, Accounting and Organisation

Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)

Director General Data and Statistics, Chief Data Officer

The Eurosystem’s operational framework for implementing monetary policy comprises the general rules for Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures, by means of which the ECB Governing Council’s decisions on the implementation of monetary policy in the euro area are enacted in a decentralised manner. The Eurosystem’s monetary policy operations are executed under uniform terms and conditions in all Member States. The Bundesbank is responsible for conducting the Eurosystem’s monetary policy operations with German counterparties.

Since September 2024: Director General Procurement

The German government has decided to mint a €5 collectors’ coin entitled “Red-tailed bumblebee”, to be issed at 7 November 2024.

Director General / Special Representative of the Executive Board, Member of the Budget Committee of the ECB

With the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2007 and the turmoil it brought about in the international banking system, trust between commercial banks increasingly dwindled, which significantly hampered the redistribution of liquidity via the interbank market that is necessary for a functioning corridor system. Banks in the euro area began to hoard liquidity or not lend it indiscriminately to banks that were in need of liquidity, meaning that the short-term money market no longer facilitated the smooth distribution of liquidity. The volatility of short-term interest rates went up significantly. As a result, the ECB Governing Council adopted a series of non-standard monetary policy measures, thereby changing the way in which the operational framework is used to implement monetary policy.

Prior to the global financial crisis starting in 2007, the Eurosystem’s operational framework for implementing monetary policy used to be a corridor system. This involved the ECB Governing Council setting three interest rates, which usually had the same distance from each other. The rates of the deposit facility and the marginal lending facility formed the lower and upper bounds of the corridor, respectively. The relevant key interest rate on the main refinancing operations was the middle of the interest rate corridor. This system aimed to steer short-term money market rates close to the main refinancing operations rate.

The European sovereign debt crisis was characterised by the fact that some euro area countries, owing to their high levels of debt – caused in part by efforts to counter the consequences of the global financial crisis – experienced difficulties refinancing their debt and, in some cases, lost access to capital market funding. In order to protect monetary policy transmission and safeguard sufficient liquidity provision for the financial system, the ECB Governing Council adopted various non-standard measures during the course of the crisis that went beyond the scope of the usual operational framework at that time.

We could be on the verge of a global economic turning point, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. In this situation, we need more Europe, not less. Trump’s proposed trade tariffs could prove very painful for Germany. Should they be implemented, he said, we might even see negative economic growth next year. Mr Nagel considers European monetary policy to be on the right track.

Details and presentations with regard to our events and conferences on payments, settlement and account management.

The prudential own funds requirements reflect a risk-oriented approach to supervision which is designed, depending on a bank's individual risk positions, to ensure that capital backing is as commensurate with risk as possible.

Tim ist mit seinem Team für die Bargeldversorgung und die Qualitätssicherung der Banknoten und Münzen zuständig. Im Video erläutert er, wie er zusätzlichdie Gelegenheit erhielt, Einblicke in die Bankenaufsicht zu gewinnen.

Economist in the Research Centre since 2019

Economist in the Research Centre since May 2021

In this area you will find a selection of previous counterparty information letters on eligible collateral.