Germany
Germany should aim to cut corporate savings – ECB paper
Investment and banking reforms are needed to cut German firms’ savings, say researchers
Book notes: How boards work, by Dambisa Moyo
Moyo offers insights into the skills required to be a valued board director
Is the ECB’s strategy review enough?
Reformed framework may allow greater stimulus to tackle weak inflation expectations, but Governing Council is already divided
German inflation could be over 2% until mid-2022 – Bundesbank
Inflation is likely to drop from early 2022 as base effects end, central bank forecasts
Book notes: The pay off, by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán
A timely introduction to and accessible survey of payment system developments
New Bafin president takes up role
Ex-Finma head pledges to make heavily criticised German financial regulator “world class”
Weidmann: inflation heading ‘in the direction of 5%’
But the Bundesbank president defends the ECB’s new policy framework
Bundesbank warns about digital challenges for German banks
Report stresses the importance of reinforcing cyber security processes
Three ways to bolster flawed AML/CFT in the EU
EU must address significant weaknesses if it wants to combat illicit money flows, write Panicos Demetriades and Radosveta Vassileva
Pandemic changes could help women advance in central banks
Remote working gives staff flexibility not offered by existing arrangements, say senior policy-makers
‘Contagious zombies’ menace German economy – Bundesbank paper
ECB’s policies have increased flow of credit to “non-viable firms”, researchers say
Germany facing ‘strong upswing’ – Bundesbank
Central bank revises 2021 GDP growth forecast from 3% to 3.7%
Lithuania cancels firm’s licence over alleged Wirecard money laundering
Fintech business committed “severe infringements” in dealings with collapsed German firm – central bank
German court dismisses challenge to ECB bond-buying
Constitutional court ends long-running challenge to asset purchase programme
Cash infrastructure as public good – implications for the cash cycle
Eurosystem is seeking to safeguard cash infrastructure even as transaction volumes plunge
Funds’ synthetic leverage should be monitored – Bundesbank paper
Researcher presents new method for assessing one type of risk-taking by mutual funds
Bundesbank paper looks at German inflation expectations
Social media forms less realistic picture of current price levels than traditional news – researchers
‘Do no harm’: central bankers warn against rush to issue CBDC
Agustín Carstens, Jerome Powell and Jens Weidmann highlight risks of acting too fast
Bundesbank retains profits to build up risk provisions
Weidmann says risk provisioning is “first step” due to increased exposure on policy portfolio
CCP open access will be ‘integral’ part of Mifid review
EC official says politicians will need to decide whether to further delay open access
German finance minister pushes chief regulator out
Bafin head and deputy resign over their handling of Wirecard scandal
Ulrich Bindseil on the launch of the digital euro
ECB’s payments head speaks about the functionality, tiering and technology of the eurozone’s planned CBDC
The role of Tips for the future payments landscape
Tips could play a critical role in providing the infrastructure for a digital euro as well as facilitating fast and efficient cross-border payments
Otmar Issing on the art of central bank communications
EMU architect critiques “whatever it takes”, forward guidance, Fed’s AIT and ECB’s strategy review