The Deutsche Bundesbank in figures

The Deutsche Bundesbank: key figures

 

               2022

              2023

Staff
1
As at 31 December 2023.
Core staff (full-time equivalents)

10,294

10,255

  Contraction since 31 December 2001
2
Core staff (full-time equivalents) on 31 December 2001 (year before the structural reform began): 14,800.

4,523 (= 30.5%)

4,562 (= 30.8%)

Locations / core staff (full-time equivalents)
1
As at 31 December 2023.
Central Office

1 / 5,405

1 / 5,530

Regional offices

9 / 2,667

9 / 2,623 

Branches

31 / 2,223

31 / 2,102

Annual accounts
1
As at 31 December 2023.
Distributable profit

Net interest income

€3,954 million

 €13,907 million

Total assets

€2,903,591 million

€2,516,001 million

Foreign reserve assets (total)

€276.5 billion

€292.3 billion

  Foreign currency

€34.4 billion

€33.4 billion

  Receivables from the IMF

€58.0 billion

€57.5 billion

  Gold

(3,355 t) €184.0 billion

(3,353 t) €201.3 billion

    Allocation across the various storage locations

 

 

      Frankfurt

(1,710 t) €93.8 billion

(1,710 t) €102.7 billion

      New York

(1,236 t) €67.8 billion

(1,236 t) €74.2 billion

      London

(409 t) €22.4 billion

(406 t) €24.4 billion

ECB capital key
1
As at 31 December 2023.
Share of subscribed capital

21.4394%

21.4394%

Share of paid-up capital

26.3615%

26.1494%

Amount of the participating interest in the ECB

€2.32 billion

€2.32 billion

Foreign reserve assets transferred to the ECB

€10.64 billion

€10.64 billion

Monetary policy operations
Open market operations in the euro area 
  Main refinancing operations

€2.4 billion

€14.1 billion

  Longer-term refinancing operations
3
Including targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs), excluding US dollar tenders.
 

€1,321.4 billion

€396.2 billion

    of which counterparties of the Bundesbank 

€235.9 billion

€69.5 billion

  Banks participating in refinancing operations (total)

769

458

    of which via the Bundesbank

512

252

Standing facilities 
  Marginal lending facility in the euro area 

€0.5 billion

€0.01 billion

  Deposit facility in the euro area 

€3,778.8 billion

€3,334.8 billion

Asset purchase programmes (Bundesbank’s share)
1
As at 31 December 2023.

 

CBPP3 portfolio

€77.8 billion

€74.5 billion

PSPP portfolio

562.3 billion

513.5 billion

CSPP portfolio

79.1 billion

71.8 billion

PEPP public sector portfolio

€343.7 billion

€339.6 billion

PEPP corporate sector portfolio

€8.7 billion

€8.3 billion

PEPP covered bonds portfolio

€1.4 billion

1.4 billion

Cash payments
Volume of euro banknotes in circulation (Eurosystem)
1
As at 31 December 2023.

€1,572.0 billion

€1,567.2 billion

Volume of coins in circulation (Eurosystem)
1
As at 31 December 2023.

€32.5 billion

€33.5 billion

Returned DEM banknotes and coins

DEM 53.5 million

DEM 58.1 million

Unreturned DEM banknotes and coins

DEM 12.30 billion

DEM 12.24 billion

Incidence of counterfeit money in Germany
Euro banknotes (number)

44,145

56,572 

Euro coins (number)

73,400 

115,832 

Cashless payments
Payments via the Bundesbank (number of transactions)

7,273.5 million

7,838.6 million

of which via RPS

7,128.5 million

7,681.6 million

of which via TARGET(2)-Bundesbank

142.4 million

154.5 million

payment transactions in T(ARGET)2
4
On 20 March 2023, a new technical platform replaced the existing TARGET2 system. Since then, banks’ liquidity management, transactions with the central bank and individual payments (including settlement with connected market infrastructures) have been processed in the new T2 service. The figures listed here comprise the transactions in TARGET2-Bundesbank up until the changeover date and subsequently the transactions in TARGET-Bundesbank (T2 service).

53.1 million

53.0 million

payment transactions in TIPS

15.2 million

33.4 million

settlement of securities transactions in T2S

74.1 million

68.1 million

Payments via the Bundesbank (value)

€295.2 trillion

€307.8 trillion

of which via RPS

€4.3 trillion

€4.5 trillion

of which via TARGET(2)-Bundesbank

€288.6 trillion

€300.1 trillion

payment transactions in T(ARGET)2
4
On 20 March 2023, a new technical platform replaced the existing TARGET2 system. Since then, banks’ liquidity management, transactions with the central bank and individual payments (including settlement with connected market infrastructures) have been processed in the new T2 service. The figures listed here comprise the transactions in TARGET2-Bundesbank up until the changeover date and subsequently the transactions in TARGET-Bundesbank (T2 service).

€221.2 trillion

€230.3 trillion

payment transactions in TIPS

€12.6 billion

€27.7 billion

settlement of securities transactions in T2S

€67.4 trillion

€69.8 trillion

Share of TARGET(2)-Bundesbank transactions in EU-wide TARGET(2) system (number of payment transactions)

51.7%

50.8%

Banking supervision
Number of institutions supervised

2,858

2,779

On-site inspections

154

163

Cooperation with foreign central banks
Training and advisory events

186

249

Number of participants (total)

3,284

3,386

Number of participating countries (total)

94

104

Selected publications
Annual Report

1

1

Financial Stability Review

1

1

Monthly Report

12

12

Statistical Series

104

104

Research Centre discussion papers

52

34

Technical papers

4

8

Publications in academic journals

89

78

External communication / public relations
Visitors to the Money Museum

31,426

44,144

Economic education events / number of participants

1,781 / 47,839

1,932 / 54,003

Written answers to queries

16,029

17,749

Press releases

469

480

Training sessions on counterfeit prevention / number of participants

1,400 / 27,000

2,100 / 42,000

 

Branches of the Deutsche Bundesbank

on 31 December 2023

Locality numberBank location
720Augsburg
100Berlin
480Bielefeld
870Chemnitz
370Cologne
470Dortmund
820Erfurt
500Frankfurt am Main
680Freiburg
260Göttingen
200Hamburg
250Hannover
660Karlsruhe
570Koblenz
860Leipzig
545Ludwigshafen
810Magdeburg
550Mainz
700Munich
150Neubrandenburg
760Nuremberg
280Oldenburg
265Osnabrück
750Regensburg
640Reutlingen
130Rostock
590Saarbrücken
600Stuttgart
630Ulm
694Villingen-Schwenningen
790Würzburg

 

Staff of the Deutsche Bundesbank

on 31 December 2023

5
Of which:
 part-time employees: 3,044 (end-2022: 3,017)
staff with temporary contracts: 141 (end-2022: 171)
6
Not included:
 Members of staff on secondment: 96 (end-2022: 101)
Members of staff on unpaid leave: 243 (end-2022: 247)
Members of staff in the second phase of the partial retirement scheme: 140 (end-2022: 117)

 Staff numbersYear-on-year changes

Total

Regional offices

Branches

Central Office

Total

Regional offices

Branches

Central Office

Civil servants

6,228

1,634

806

3,788

4

14

42

60

Salaried staff

5,524

1,308

1,496

2,720

134

48

81

5

Total

11,752

2,942

2,302

6,508

130

62

123

55

  of which: trainees

669

82

23

564

81

10

5

76

Core staff

11,083

2,860

2,279

5,944

49

52

128

131

Core staff pro rata
(full-time equivalents)

10,255.1

2,623.3

2,101.9

5,529.9

39.2

43.3

120.8

124.9

 

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