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Weidmann: Make monetary policy easier to understand
04.02.2020 DE
Speaking at Deutsche Börse’s New Year’s reception in Eschborn, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says that monetary policy needs to be easier to understand.
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Corona pandemic causing German economy to slide into pronounced recession
23.03.2020 DE
Germany is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Bundesbank’s latest Monthly Report. The experts regard a slide into a marked recession as being unavoidable. An economic recovery would set in only when the pandemic risk had been effectively brought under control.
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Learning from European cooperation in the field of financial stability Guest contribution published in Süddeutschen Zeitung, in Les Echos and in La Repubblica
In a joint op-ed piece, Bundesbank Vice-President Claudia Buch, together with her colleagues Sylvie Goulard of Banque de France and Luigi Federico Signorini of Banca d’Italia, call on politicians to seek European solutions in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. In the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Les Echos and La Repubblica newspapers, they write that other policy areas can learn from European cooperation in the field of financial stability.
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Monthly Report: Economy off to sluggish start in Q3
23.09.2019 DE FR
The German economy got the third quarter off to a sluggish start. “
This was due primarily to export-oriented industry, where the downturn continued,
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Acquisition of financial assets and external financing in Germany in the first quarter of 2020 Results of the financial accounts by sector
Zum Ende des ersten Quartals 2020 betrug das Geldvermögen der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland 6 337 Mrd €.
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Digitalization, Competition, and Financial Stability Opening remarks prepared for the Seminar "Statistics on Fintech – Bringing Together Demand and Supply to Measure its Impact" organized by the Irving Fisher Committee (IFC) and the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM)
Bundesbank Vice-President Claudia Buch has emphasised the importance of improving the statistics database on providers of digital financial services, such as FinTechs and BigTechs, in order to safeguard financial stability. “We need better data to assess risks, vulnerabilities, and resilience,” she noted in a speech delivered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Mauderer: Normalising monetary policy is a lengthy process
26.11.2018 DE
Sabine Mauderer, Bundesbank Executive Board member and responsible for Markets and Human Resources since the beginning of September, and Yves Mersch, ECB Executive Board member, spoke at the banking and corporate evening at the Regional Office in Munich.
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Acquisition of financial assets and financing in 2011 Results of the financial accounts by sector
Despite significant price losses on the capital markets, the financial assets of households in Germany rose in 2011 to a total of €4,715 billion at year-end. At the same time, households’ debt increased slightly to around €1,550 billion. Non-financial corporations’ acquisition of financial assets grew by roughly €209 billion and thus surpassed the increase in their external financing, which amounted to just under €190 billion.
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Coronavirus pandemic plunges German economy into severe recession
20.04.2020 DE
“The coronavirus pandemic and the measures taken to contain it have plunged the German economy into a severe recession,”
according to the Bundesbank’s latest Monthly Report. At present, it is all but impossible to tell with any degree of certainty how large the decline in overall economic activity will eventually be, the Monthly Report states