A government official in the United States once compared a nation’s statistical system to a tailor, measuring the economy much as a tailor measures a person for a suit of clothes -- with the difference that, unlike the tailor, the person we are measuring is running while we try to measure him.
The third cornerstone in our thinking is that improvements in safety, reliability and prevention of misuse must be fundamental to the development of electronic payments. Payment service providers and infrastructures must have sound risk management and must focus on resilience.