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© Banco Central do BrasilCloser cooperation planned with the central bank of Brazil
22.10.2015 DE
The Deutsche Bundesbank and Banco Central do Brasil intend to work more closely in future. Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret and his Brazilian counterpart Otávio Damaso signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect in October.
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© Natsuki HosoyaDombret welcomes new head of Bundesbank's Tokyo Representative Office
15.10.2015 DE
Gudrun Moede is the new head of the Bundesbank's Representative Office in Tokyo. She and her deputy, Matthias Vogel, were welcomed by Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret at a reception in Tokyo.
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© IMF Staff Photo/Stephen JaffeWeidmann: economic recovery set to continue
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann says the economic recovery looks set to continue, particularly in the United States and the euro area. Speaking as the IMF's Annual Meeting in Lima drew to a close, he also stressed that monetary policy is not a silver bullet that can eliminate weak growth.
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Subdued world economic outlook discussed at IMF Annual Meeting
07.10.2015 DE
The Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is being held from 8 to 11 October in Lima against the backdrop of a perceptible deterioration in the outlook for the global economy. The IMF lowered its growth forecast for the global economy in the run-up to the meeting.
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© Marc DarchingerBundesbank publishes gold bar list
The Deutsche Bundesbank has published a list detailing its holdings of gold bars, broken down by custodian. This list contains information about the bar numbers, the melt or inventory numbers, the gross and fine weight as well as the fineness of the individual gold bars.
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© Nadine JakobsBundesbank exhibition attracts more than 10,000 visitors
05.10.2015 DE
Around 1.4 million people celebrated the 25th anniversary of German reunification at a huge public festival from 2 to 4 October in Frankfurt. Thousands of people visited the exhibition organised by the Bundesbank and the City of Frankfurt to learn about German monetary union.
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© Gaby Gerster"There can be no talk of deflation"
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has warned against frantic activism given the low inflation rates in the euro area. The drastic drop in energy prices constitutes a "decent stimulus package", he said in an interview with the German news weekly Der Spiegel.
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© Dieter RoosenMonthly Report: euro-area lending on the mend
24.09.2015 DE
Bank lending to non-financial corporations has put in a slight recovery over the past two years. The latest edition of the Bundesbank's Monthly Report sees the improved economy as a key contributing factor.
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© BundesbankWeidmann: single deposit guarantee scheme premature
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has come out against the creation of a single deposit guarantee scheme in the euro area in the near future. He sees a risk that depositors will end up carrying the can for distressed banks in other European countries.
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© Tina WagnerPersistently low interest rates weighing on German credit institutions
23.09.2015 DE
Persistently low interest rates are putting small and medium-sized credit institutions to the test, as shown by a survey of around 1,500 institutions conducted by BaFin and the Bundesbank. The banks now need to work on the profitability of their business models, said Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret.