Joint press release by the Federal Ministry of Finance and KfW: On 11 June 2024, German Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner and Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko signed a Joint Declaration of Intent to intensify cooperation for the purpose of financing Ukraine’s reconstruction.

The EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) will be based in Frankfurt. In a joint vote, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union decided in favour of Germany’s financial hub. In the negotiations to establish AMLA, the Federal Ministry of Finance had pushed successfully to increase the new authority’s powers. The choice of Frankfurt as AMLA headquarters reinforces this …

The Federal Ministry of Finance, the Hessian state government and the city of Frankfurt have announced Germany’s official application to host the EU’s future Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA).

The Federal Ministry of Finance and the Deutsche Bundesbank have agreed with the National Bank of Ukraine to let the hryvnia-to-euro exchange scheme expire.

On 20 April 2021, the German government published the first allocation report for its Green Federal securities issued in 2020. The “Green Bond Allocation Report 2020” provides investors with transparent and binding information on expenditures from the federal government’s environmental and climate protection programmes. It lists expenditures recognised as “green” in the 2019 federal budget and …

Together with other official bilateral creditors, Germany intends to participate in a coordinated suspension of the payments that Ukraine makes to service its bilateral debts.

Under German chairmanship the Ministers of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) members committed to take swift and decisive action to improve the effectiveness of measures to fight money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing at their meeting in Washington D.C. today. This includes promptly implementing the FATF’s global beneficial ownership rules, which were strengthened earlier …

The task force that has been set up by the Federal Government to implement the EU sanctions appointed its management yesterday evening at its second meeting.

Germany and France represented by Christian Lindner, Federal Minister of Finance, Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Bruno Le Maire, Minister for the Economy, Finance and the Recovery, and Cédric O, Minister of State for the Digital Transition and Electronic Communication, have signed, together with Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, …

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