The Bundesbank posted a profit of €4.6 billion for the 2013 financial year. "Despite interest income being lower, the Bundesbank has recorded a higher profit for 2013 than for 2012 as it has not been necessary to transfer any more funds to the risk provisions," Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann explained at the Bundesbank’s 2013 financial statements press conference.

ECB Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschläger says that banks in Europe would be put through their paces. "I think it's hugely important for our stress test to be tough," she commented on the second day of the Bundesbank's symposium. This year was an opportunity to straighten things up, she added.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann believes that financial stability must not be adopted as an additional monetary policy objective on a par with price stability. This would put the credibility of central banks at risk, he explained at a Bundesbank symposium. Monetary policy was not a suitable instrument for safeguarding financial stability. Renowned economists then discussed the interaction between monetary policy and financial stability.

When a country joins the European Union or the euro area, that country's central bank takes a share in the capital of the European Central Bank. To make sure a correct weighting is maintained amongst the member states, the European Central Bank adjusts the "capital key" for all the national central banks on a regular basis.

At a press conference presenting this year's Financial Stability Review, Bundesbank Deputy President Sabine Lautenschläger and Executive Board member Andreas Dombret commented that the tensions on the international financial markets had eased, which had also benefited the German financial system. Yet they warned that the side-effects of the crisis measures were now becoming increasingly apparent – especially for banks and insurers.

In the next few weeks, the ECB will undertake a comprehensive assessment of banks in order to create transparency prior to the launch of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). This European-level supervisory mechanism is part of a project designed to avert the dangers to financial stability that can be caused by distress in national financial systems: the European banking union.

The Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system collapsed 40 years ago.

This is one of the findings of the global central bank survey, which the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) carries out every three years and for which the Bundesbank collects the German data.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann at the inaugural meeting of the Financial Stability Committee in Berlin, which marks the beginning of macroprudential oversight in Germany.

Private and institutional investors have changed their investment behaviour since the beginning of the crisis, which has had an impact on the market for mutual funds.