In this short video clip, Bundesbank Vice-President Claudia Buch comments on the rise in interest rates, structural change and heightened risks for the financial system.

For over 15 years now, the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg has been cooperating closely with the PBC School of Finance in Peking. This year, three Hachenburg professors once again held lectures for masters students on issues related to European economic and monetary policy integration and to banking supervision.

Bundesbank Vice-President Claudia Buch will be presenting the Bundesbank’s Financial Stability Review at 10:30 on 23 November 2023. The press conference will be streamed live on the internet. Further information can be found here.

53 international students from 18 countries across 5 continents.
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At the invitation of the Institute of Banking of the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH), Prof. Urs Lendermann held a lecture in the Polish capital on "International Cooperation in Banking Regulation". In the future, the two universities want to intensify their cooperation.

Two years have been spent exploring the possible design and distribution of a digital euro. Now, the Governing Council of the ECB is moving to the next phase of the project. This will lay the foundations for a potential digital euro. It will involve, amongst other things, finalising the digital euro rulebook and selecting providers that could develop a digital euro platform and infrastructure. However, a decision on whether to actually issue a digital euro will be made at a later date. 

Imagine a digital single payment solution that could be used for any kind of payment throughout the euro area. Guess what? It could become a reality. A digital euro. Easy, safe, fast, reliable. Digital money from the European Central Bank at your fingertips whenever you need it. But how would it work?

The People’s Bank of China and the Bundesbank have renewed the partnership between their universities. The agreement extending the arrangement was signed by Kang Yitong, Dean of the People’s Bank of China School of Finance, and Erich Keller, Rector of the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences, at the German embassy in Beijing.

In a speech delivered at the University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann spoke to students about the challenge of putting monetary union on a sound long-term footing.