*  *  *  This speech will highlight the role of public oversight concentrating on recent developments in the field of governance, accounting and supervision. Some concrete examples will be used from the practice as prudential supervisors and to show you how at DNB ´Sense and Simplicity´ are an objective as well.
  The central role of the US dollar is connected to several features of the functioning of the present system that I have just outlined. How can that role be expected to evolve? Will the system remain essentially dollar-centered or become more multipolar?