At the end of 2022, Germany’s primary outward foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks were higher than at the end of 2021, by just under 3% to €1,634 billion net. Inward FDI was also up on its end-2021 level, rising by 6.5% to €956 billion. Although Germany’s FDI assets indicated significantly weaker investment activity than in the year prior, it recorded an overall increase of €75 billion in 2023 (2022: €170 billion). The increase of German liabilities was €15 billion, which is one-quarter of the previous year’s figure.

The German economy is slowly regaining its footing after a roughly two-year period of weakness, according to the Bundesbank’s current Forecast for Germany.

The Bundesbank is renovating its Central Office on Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse in Frankfurt am Main.

Die aggregierte Summe der Aktiva der Kreditinstitute mit Sitz in der EU erhöhte sich von 30,85 Billionen € im Dezember 2022 auf 31,92 Billionen € im Dezember 2023. Dies entspricht einer Zunahme um 3,45 %.

The Bundesbank’s “Banking supervision in dialogue” symposium ranks among the key forums for banking and financial supervisory topics in Germany. This year’s event in Frankfurt am Main centred around ten years of the SSM, artificial intelligence, and crypto-assets regulation. Speakers included Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz, FINMA CEO Stefan Walter, SSM Chair Claudia Buch (European Central Bank) and Karlheinz Walch (Director General Banking and Financial Supervision, Deutsche Bundesbank).