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.

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.

Upon invitation by the Institute for International Monetary Research, Uwe Schollmeyer, a lecturer at the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences, took part in a two-day conference on “The Economics of Monetary Unions: Past Experiences and the Eurozone”. The conference was held on 21 and 22 February 2019 at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom.

For over 15 years now, the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg has been cooperating closely with the PBC School of Finance in Peking. This year, three Hachenburg professors once again held lectures for masters students on issues related to European economic and monetary policy integration and to banking supervision.

53 international students from 18 countries across 5 continents.
An unforgettable experience.

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

At the invitation of the Institute of Banking of the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH), Prof. Urs Lendermann held a lecture in the Polish capital on "International Cooperation in Banking Regulation". In the future, the two universities want to intensify their cooperation.

The People’s Bank of China and the Bundesbank have renewed the partnership between their universities. The agreement extending the arrangement was signed by Kang Yitong, Dean of the People’s Bank of China School of Finance, and Erich Keller, Rector of the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences, at the German embassy in Beijing.

In a speech delivered at the University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann spoke to students about the challenge of putting monetary union on a sound long-term footing.