Edgar Meister: Challenges for regulators in Europe  Speech by Mr Edgar Meister, Member of the Directorate of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Joint Bundesbank/BIS conference on “Recent developments in financial systems and the challenges for economic policy”, held in Frankfurt, 28-29 September 2000.
Monetary policy, supervision and regulation activities, and payments system operation will need to be calibrated to respond to the influences of that technological change. Other forces will be at work on the economic environment as well. The inexorable aging of our population will markedly influence the policy milieu in the years ahead.