Jean-Claude Trichet: Throughout this crisis, since the summer of 2007, the European Central Bank and all the central banks of the euro area, the Banque de France among them, have always acted with a view to restoring confidence. Do you really believe that by suggesting we give inflation a looser rein we would have restored that confidence? Households’ confidence? Firms’ and investors’ confidence?
For the transacting public, the BSP created the Financial Consumers Affairs Group (FCAG), a unit dedicated to assisting consumers who have concerns related to banking and financial services. We have also forged partnerships to broaden and deepen our reach.