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© Robert Metsch / ECBECB to apply new capital key from 1 January
17.12.2018 DE
The European Central Bank’s capital key will be changing with effect from 1 January 2019 following a scheduled recalculation. The Bundesbank, along with 15 other national central banks, will be contributing a larger share to the ECB’s capital from then on.
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© Daniel Bockwoldt / dpaForecast: German economy remains on solid growth path
Despite the setback in the third quarter of 2018, the German economy should continue to see solid growth for the time being, in the Bundesbank’s estimation. The Bank’s recently published autumn forecast primarily attributes the slight decline in economic output in the previous quarter to temporary difficulties in the automotive industry and believes it will be overcome rapidly.
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© European Central BankECB to cease net asset purchases at the end of the year
14.12.2018 DE
At its meeting on 13 December, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank agreed to discontinue the net asset purchases under the asset purchase programme (APP) in December 2018.
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© Uwe DettmarWeidmann: Productive exchange between Bundesbank and House of Finance
06.12.2018 DE
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has given a speech emphasising the good cooperation between the Bundesbank and Goethe University Frankfurt’s House of Finance. In his speech, held on the occasion of the House of Finance’s 10-year anniversary, Mr Weidmann said that the exchange between the two institutions had borne fruit on many levels.
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© Klaus D. WolfMauderer: 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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© picture alliance / dpaProduction and issuance of the €500 banknote will be discontinued
23.11.2018 DE
On 4 May 2016, the Governing Council decided that the €500 banknote will be excluded from the Europa series and the issuance of this denomination will be stopped around the end of 2018.
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© Jens Braune del AngelNon-standard monetary policy should not become the “new normal”
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann believes that the Eurosystem should use the pre-crisis toolkit as a benchmark for monetary policy normalisation. In remarks made in Frankfurt am Main, Weidmann said: “
If and how monetary policy should adapt its toolbox can only be assessed after we have progressed on the path of normalisation.
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© Monty Rakusen / Getty ImagesEconomic boom continues despite temporary lull
Economic output in Germany dipped slightly in the third quarter of 2018. As the Deutsche Bundesbank's latest Monthly Report explains, this was caused by one-off factors. “Despite these temporary one-off effects, the economic boom in Germany continues,” write the Bundesbank’s economists.
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© Mathis WienandWeidmann: Economic upturn intact despite setback
14.11.2018 DE
German economic output declined in the third quarter of 2018 for the first time in three and a half years. “This decline is primarily due to a drop in output in the automotive sector,” explained Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann at an event in Berlin.
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© Frank RumpenhorstFinancial Stability Review: vulnerabilities in Germany’s financial system
14.11.2018 DE
Times of strong growth and low interest rates have seen vulnerabilities build up in the German financial system. In addition, the probability of an economic downturn has increased.
“Now is the time to build up sufficient capital and strengthen the financial system’s defences,”
said Bundesbank Vice-President Claudia Buch at the press conference on the publication of the new Financial Stability Review.