Integrated European financial markets – and let me emphasise at this point that the process of integration must continue to be pushed forward – mean that coordinated European solutions must be found for the supervision of cross-border banks and the monitoring of systemic risks.
In August 2013, the Bank hosted the 37th Assembly of Governors of the AACB – the first time in its 45-year history that the AACB has held its meeting away from Continental Africa – and I took over the Chair for a one-year term.