In 2022, the Bundesbank registered approximately 44,100 counterfeit euro banknotes with a nominal value of €2.7 million in German payments. The number of counterfeits was thus up by 5.2% on the year.

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Bundesbank Vice-President Claudia Buch and Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling will be presenting the Bundesbank’s Financial Stability Review at 11:00 on 24 November 2022. The press conference will be streamed live on the internet. Further information can be found here.

The Bundesbank and Banque de France Spring Conference on monetary policy and the expectations of households and firms toke place on 23 and 24 June. The event was centred around speeches by French central bank governor François Villeroy de Galhau and Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel. 

The Bundesbank assumes that the economy will grow by 1.9% this year. “The economic recovery is therefore likely to continue, but at a much more subdued pace than projected last December,” according to the current edition of the experts’ semi-annual projection. The annual average inflation rate for 2022 is set to rise to 7.1%.

That was Euro20+! Finally live and on site again. On 13. und 14 Mai 2022 we discussed inflation, monetary policy and a sustainable economy with young people. Find out how the participants liked it in the short video.

Statement given by Bundesbank Board Member Sabine Mauderer at the 1st climate-related financial risk Conference of the Financial Market Commission of Chile on 26 April 2022.

Have you become curious? Then risk a first look and watch the film of the tour here!

Academic staff of the University of Applied Sciences of the Deutsche Bundesbank