Ms. Katharine Christopherson and Mr. Wolfgang Bergthaler held a guest lecture at the Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Financing Role in Preventing and Resolving Sovereign Debt Crises.

Atilla Arda, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, gave a presentation on bank resolution and crisis management in the euro area to students of the University of Applied Sciences of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Six delegates from the Korean central bank visited the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg at the beginning of October. Discussions focussed on current issues such as digitalisation and demographic change.

The Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences participated for the first time in a conference on German-Polish economic relations in Warsaw.

Representatives from the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences travelled to Mexico in August to attend the 25^th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2019), where they presented a paper on success factors in project management.

The Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences and the Warsaw School of Economics have launched a new student exchange programme.

Tsinghua University in China was the destination of a two-week visit by students from the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg. 

Canadian students recently visited the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg as part of a tour of various European institutions. As well as discussing current European issues, they had the chance to take part in a workshop simulating a meeting of the ECB Governing Council.

Young Tai Kim, head of the Bank of Korea’s representative office in Frankfurt, recently joined his colleague Heungsoong Jung for a visit to the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences, where they spoke with students about the global financial crisis, low interest rates and rapprochement between North and South Korea.

Last autumn, I was sent on secondment by the Deutsche Bundesbank to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for one month and subsequently for five weeks to the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville (SIUE).

In April, 46 international students from China, Belarus, Poland and Ukraine visited the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences to learn about monetary policy, regulation and banking supervision in the euro area.