The new Principles contain 24 elements, covering all aspects of financial market infrastructures including basic governance structures, day-to-day operations, risk management, and crisis resolution.2 They are designed to ensure  1  See Leaders’ Statement released after the G20 Pittsburgh Summit held on September 24–25, 2009.
All the members of the European System of Central Banks who are present here would say as I do: “Thank you Wim, from the bottom of our hearts, for having guided us so skilfully and successfully in so many “battlefields”. Wim was not only a great central banker.