Bundesbank’s external position stood at €865 billion at the end of March 2025, with claims from the TARGET2 payment system worth €1069 billion making up around 70% of total assets. These are followed by international reserves, comprising gold and foreign exchange reserves, including the special drawing rights allocated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which account for a total of 20% of assets. At 87%, issuance of euro cash accounted for the bulk of liabilities. Deposits of non-euro area residents amount to 6% of foreign liabilities.

Im Februar 2025 wies die Leistungsbilanz einen Überschuss von 34 Mrd. € auf (nach 40 Mrd. € im Vormonat).

Here you find related publications on banking supervision for download, regulatory documents and information and recommendations of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

The Deutsche Bundesbank holds art exhibitions at its Money Museum. Not only that: works from its art collection are displayed, on loan, in museums or are shown in joint exhibitions with institutions such as the European Central Bank or the National Bank of Belgium.

T2 is the TARGET Service for the liquidity management of all TARGET Services and the settlement of individual payments. It consists of the components CLM (Central Liquidity Management) and RTGS (Real-Time-Gross-Settlement).

The validation of account numbers using the check-digit method promotes the smooth and automated settlement of payments. A transferring payment service provider or a first collecting institution must therefore check the accuracy of the payees' or payers' account numbers.

The German government has decided to mint a €10 collectors’ coin entitled “Police”, to be issued on 25 April 2024.

Laut der Umfrage zum Kreditgeschäft im Euroraum vom April 2025, die in der Zeit vom 10. bis 25. März 2025 durchgeführt wurde, wurden die Kreditrichtlinien (d. h. die bankinternen Richtlinien oder Kriterien für die Kreditgewährung) für Unternehmenskredite (inklusive Kreditlinien) im ersten Quartal 2025 erneut leicht verschärft; per saldo meldeten 3 % der Banken eine Verschärfung.

In der jüngsten Umfrage über den Zugang von Unternehmen im Euroraum zu Finanzmitteln (SAFE) für das erste Quartal 2025 berichteten die Unternehmen von einem Rückgang der Zinssätze für Bankkredite (per saldo ‑12 % nach ‑4 % im Vorquartal).

Der Bruttoabsatz am deutschen Rentenmarkt lag im Februar 2025 mit 136,6 Mrd € deutlich unter dem Wert des Vormonats (155,7 Mrd €). Nach Abzug der gegenüber dem Vormonat gestiegenen Tilgungen und unter Berücksichtigung der Eigenbestandsveränderungen der Emittenten sank der Umlauf inländischer Rentenpapiere um 8,2 Mrd €, nachdem im Januar im Ergebnis 29,5 Mrd € abgesetzt worden waren. Gleichzeitig stieg der Umlauf ausländischer Schuldverschreibungen in Deutschland um 19,9 Mrd €. Das Mittelaufkommen aus dem Verkauf in- und ausländischer Schuldverschreibungen in Deutschland betrug somit 11,7 Mrd €. 

Die Finanzsanktionen gegen bestimmte Personen, Organisationen und Einrichtungen angesichts der Lage in Syrien dienen der Durchführung von Maßnahmen der Europäischen Union.

OMTOS (OpenMarket Tender Operations System) is the electronic bidding system for the execution of the Eurosystem's open market operations as well as the foreign exchange Liquidity Providing Operations (LPO).

There are various documents available describing the structure and functioning of T2. There are for example the Information Guide for TARGET participants, the User Requirements Document, the User Detailed Functional Specifications, the User Handbooks or our Starting Guide which shall ease the first steps for new participants. These documents and even more can be found in this area. 

Der EZB-Rat hat heute beschlossen, die drei Leitzinssätze der EZB um jeweils 25 Basispunkte zu senken. Der Beschluss zur Senkung des Zinssatzes für die Einlagefazilität – der Zinssatz, mit dem der EZB-Rat den geldpolitischen Kurs steuert – spiegelt die aktualisierte Beurteilung der Inflationsaussichten, der Dynamik der zugrunde liegenden Inflation und der Stärke der geldpolitischen Transmission durch den EZB-Rat wider.

The German government has decided to mint a €10 collector coin entitled “Care”, to be issued on 12 May 2022.

At the end of 2024, the German net international investment position (i.i.p.) amounts to €3.5 trillion; that equates to 81% of gross domestic product (GDP). German claims on non-residents now stand at €13.9 trillion. This compares to German liabilities amounting to €10.4 trillion.

Fragen und Antworten zur Studie zur wirtschaftlichen Lage privater Haushalte

German enterprises constitute net debtors vis-à-vis non-residents: Standing at €1799 billion at the end of February 2025, their liabilities arising from financial operations and trade credits, exceeded their corresponding assets of €1478 billion by €321 billion. Compared with the previous month, this is a change of -€35 billion. 

In der Studie zur wirtschaftlichen Lage privater Haushalte geht es unter anderem darum, wie die Haushalte für das Alter vorsorgen, wie sie ihr Erspartes anlegen und was die Haushalte von der Zukunft erwarten.

In March, individuals in Germany expected real estate prices in their region to rise by 5.1%, which represents an increase of 0.3 percentage point compared with the previous month’s expectations (4.8%). When asked about their qualitative expectations, 57% (February: 56%) of individuals expected real estate prices to increase and 8% (February: 9%) expected them to decrease over the next 12 months.

The Deutsche Bundesbank conducts regular surveys of households’ expectations for unemployment, economic growth, rent prices, real estate prices, and interest rates on savings and loans. These data are used to calculate index figures, from which corresponding trends can be easily derived.

While the charts on the other webpages of this study illustrate the results of regularly asked core questions, here we show charts on an ad hoc basis mainly relating to special questions for research projects or policy advice.

The main tasks of the expert panel are promoting dialogue on the activities of international working groups and to provide a platform for exploring industry-wide issues.

In March, individuals expected their net household income to rise by an average of around €60 over the next 12 months (February: €70). Expectations still vary significantly when broken down by factors such as age group, gender and, in particular, household income. The median remains constant at €125. This can be explained by the fact that a large share of individuals have considered income growth of between €0 and €250 to be most likely each month since the survey was launched.

Der EZB-Rat hat beschlossen, weitere LTRO, genannt PELTRO (Pandemic emergency longer-term refinancing operation) durchzuführen, um die Liquiditätsbedingungen im Euroraum zu unterstützen und einen Beitrag zu leisten, das Funktionieren der Geldmärkte sicher zu stellen.

Market risk is the risk of losses in on- and off-balance sheet risk positions arising from movements in market prices. Under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), credit institutions are required to hold own funds for market risk to cover foreign exchange risk and commodities risk in their non-trading and trading books as well as position risk (risk of positions in debt and equity instruments) in their trading book. They can use either the standardised approach or internal risk models to calculate their market risk.

Der EZB-Rat hat beschlossen, zur Unterstützung der Bankenliquidität und der Geldmarktaktivitäten vorübergehend zusätzliche längerfristige Refinanzierungsgeschäfte (additional longer-term refinancing operations - LTRO) durchzuführen.

The Eurosystem’s monetary policy from 2020 was shaped by the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in inflation from 2021. This ultimately led to a series of Eurosystem policy rate hikes totalling 450 basis points (from July 2022 to September 2023).

Pursuant to Eurosystem rules, auctions may be used alongside bilateral transactions as a supplementary procedure for specific market segments under the public sector purchase programme (PSPP). Within this framework, the Bundesbank conducts one multi-ISIN auction covering up to 10 securities on the second and fourth Thursday of every month. Advance notice for the auctions is issued on the Friday prior to the relevant auction.

Der Zinssatz des GLRG-II orientiert sich an der Nettokreditvergabe der Institute. Eine Übersicht finden Sie hier.

Das "Panel on Household Finances (PHF)" ist eine wissenschaftliche Studie zur wirtschaftlichen Lage der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland. Die folgenden Seiten für Forscher/innen sind nur auf Englisch verfügbar.