National bank of Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 23/12/2018

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00:01:28 1 History of the Bundesbank as an organization
00:01:39 1.1 1948–1957
00:03:44 1.2 1957–1990
00:05:54 1.3 1990–1993
00:07:04 1.4 1993–2001
00:08:17 1.5 2001–present (2006)
00:08:44 2 The Bundesbank today
00:09:58 2.1 The Bundesbank as a note-issuing bank
00:10:43 2.2 The Bundesbank as the banks' banker
00:10:58 2.2.1 Clearing house for commercial banks
00:12:00 2.2.2 Bank supervision
00:12:20 2.3 The Bundesbank as the state's banker
00:13:03 2.4 The Bundesbank as the keeper of the currency reserves
00:13:46 2.4.1 Structure
00:14:58 2.4.2 Governance
00:15:30 3 Presidents of the Bundesbank
00:15:40 3.1 Presidents of the predecessors to the Bundesbank
00:16:08 3.2 Presidents of the Bundesbank
00:17:01 4 Current Executive Board of the Bundesbank
00:17:39 5 Personnel reductions
00:18:00 6 Disputes between the Bundesbank and the government
00:18:21 6.1 Dispute over currency union with East Germany
00:19:30 7 The Bundesbank in the news
00:20:33 8 Involvement in the European sovereign debt crisis
00:21:55 9 Publications of the Bundesbank
00:22:17 10 See also



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The Deutsche Bundesbank (pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈbʊndəsˌbaŋk]) is the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany and as such part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). Due to its strength and former size, the Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Both the Bundesbank and the European Central Bank (ECB) are located in Frankfurt, Germany. It is sometimes referred to as "Buba" for Bundesbank, while its official abbreviation is BBk.The Bundesbank was established in 1957 and succeeded the Bank deutscher Länder, which introduced the Deutsche Mark on 20 June 1948. Until the euro was physically introduced in 2002, the Bundesbank was the central bank of the former Deutsche Mark ("German Mark", sometimes known in English as the "Deutschmark").The Bundesbank was the first central bank to be given full independence, leading this form of central bank to be referred to as the Bundesbank model, as opposed, for instance, to the New Zealand model, which has a goal (i.e. inflation target) set by the government. Nowadays, the ECB also uses the Bundesbank model, making the concept the foundation of the entire Euro system.
The Bundesbank was greatly respected for its control of inflation through the second half of the 20th century. This made the German Mark one of the most respected currencies, and the Bundesbank gained substantial indirect influence in many European countries.