One crucial challenge that we face, and for which I earnestly request your support, is to help ensure that we improve the economy’s absorptive capacity – either through improving access to credit, by providing better risk management products and tools that would allow for project financing to flourish and, ladies and gentlemen by actually extending credit!
This is the way, I believe, that the PROBLEM of PLENTY, which you have time and again heard me say, would no longer be a problem of plenty, but be a POT of PLENTY for the MANY. 2  BIS Review 7/2008  Indeed, our responsibility to the community extends beyond ensuring that the macroeconomy is stable, and that the banking community is sound.