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Deutsche Bundesbank

  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    German economy
    Merz plan will not fix Germany’s pensions crunch, warns Bundesbank

    Government reforms fail to address long-standing incentives that encourage shorter working lives, says central bank

    An old man counts money at home in Berlin
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Eurozone interest rates
    Bundesbank enlists AI to prove ECB’s dovish bias

    Germany’s central bank compares Eurozone bank policies and rhetoric in study powered by artificial intelligence

    Bundesbank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    Nagel calls for reforms as Bundesbank suffers €19bn loss

    German central bank’s boss points to more interest rate cuts and urges country’s next government to embark on supply-side reforms

    Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    ObituaryHelmut Schlesinger
    Helmut Schlesinger, former Bundesbank president, 1924-2024

    Architect of tight controls on German money supply had four-decade career in central banking

    Helmut Schlesinger
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    German economy
    Bundesbank slashes growth forecast and sounds alarm over trade war

    Europe’s largest economy could be pushed into recession by Trump tariffs, central bank warns

    A tourist souvenir store in Berlin, Germany
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    German economy
    Bundesbank chief calls for softer debt brake to increase investment

    German central bank president Joachim Nagel urges Berlin to relax rules to address defence and infrastructure shortfalls

    Joachim Nagel
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    EU’s top central bankers warn economy at risk from political paralysis

    ECB president and governors of Bundesbank and Banque de France issue warnings over lack of reform

    French and German central bank governors Francois Villeroy de Galhau, left, and Joachim Nagel, right
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    European economy
    Welfare state at risk unless Europe halts decline in growth, says Lagarde

    ECB president also warns of heightened global trade tensions as ‘rival blocs’ form

    ECB president Christine Lagarde
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Markets InsightSabine Mauderer
    How climate risk will complicate central bankers’ jobs

    Severe weather events are intensifying and so too are their economic impacts

    Flooding caused by the storm that started as Hurricane Helene covering streets in Asheville, North Carolina
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    German economy
    Bundesbank chief calls for German tax cuts to boost investment

    Joachim Nagel says EU’s biggest economy must address ‘major challenges’ to fuel growth

    Pedestrians in Berlin
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Bundesbank burns through more than €20bn to cover huge losses

    German central bank uses up €19.2bn of provisions it built up to cover financial risks to absorb deficit

    A car drives out of the Bundesbank’s headquarters in Frankfurt
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    German economy
    German economy to keep shrinking, Bundesbank warns

    Central bank blames budget uncertainty, strikes and weak demand for likely ‘technical recession’ in first quarter

    The Bundesbank building in Frankfurt
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    Bundesbank looks to aid savers by cutting lenders’ interest payments

    Central bank chief Joachim Nagel’s position at odds with other ECB policymakers

    Joachim Nagel
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Bundesbank faces job cuts as consultants plot ‘modernisation’

    Germany’s central bankers up in arms over Boston Consulting Group’s recommended efficiency drive

    The headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    Eurozone inflation
    Bundesbank warns eurozone must avoid entrenched inflation ‘at all costs’

    Joachim Nagel’s hawkish comments contrast with investor expectations of an end to rate rises 

    Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    German economy
    German companies must cut exposure to China, warns Bundesbank

    Central bank says operations susceptible to trade disruption as foreign minister backs Brussels’ electric vehicle probe

    Containers piled up in the harbor in Hamburg, Germany
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    Eurozone economy
    Bundesbank may need recapitalisation to cover bond-buying losses

    German audit office’s report could make it harder for European Central Bank to carry out similar programmes

    The outside of the Bundesbank building in Frankfurt
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Chris Giles
    Bundesbank lessons for today’s central bankers

    When wage and price increases become tightly intertwined, the damaging ratchet can be hard to eliminate

    Shoppers browse items at a supermarket in Riga, Latvia. Once prices and wages become intertwined, they are hard to separate
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    Eurozone interest rates
    Inflation’s ‘greedy beast’ will be hard to tame, warns Bundesbank boss

    Halting increases in rates would be ‘first-order error’ even if price growth falling, says Germany’s central bank chief

    Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Eurozone interest rates
    ECB split over whether to keep raising interest rates after summer

    Likelihood of more tightening in September uncertain despite Bundesbank boss remarking on ‘long way to go’ to hit 2% target

    The European Central Bank in Frankfurt
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    InterviewGlobal inflation
    Bundesbank chief says rate-setters must be ‘more stubborn’ in inflation fight

    Joachim Nagel backs more rate rises as central banks on both sides of Atlantic wrestle with recent financial sector turmoil

    Joachim Nagel
  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    Bundesbank warns losses from bond purchases will wipe out buffers

    German central bank acknowledges provisions are unlikely to cover shortfall resulting from holdings of €1tn-worth of debt

    Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel addresses the media in Frankfurt on Wednesday
  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    Sabine Mauderer
    Eurozone can beat inflation while keeping markets stable

    Monetary policy is entering a phase of quantitative tightening for which there is plenty of theory but little past experience

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Global Economy
    How to Powell-proof your economy, per the Bundesbank

    Antivorsprung durch Straffung

  • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
    Commerzbank AG
    Ex-Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann set to join Commerzbank

    Former Merkel adviser will become fourth chair in three years at German lender

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