Otmar Issing: Relationship lending in the euro area Dinner speech by Prof Otmar Issing, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Second ECB Central Banking Conference "The transformation of the European Financial System", 24-25 October 2002, Frankfurt am Main, 24 October 2002.
*  *  *  The conference is on "The transformation of the European financial system". This topic raises a wide range of fascinating issues. The, first, and most immediate question is: have we chosen the right title for the conference? To what extent can we already speak of a single European financial system?