In a world where national financial systems and institutions are increasingly dependent upon one another, it is obviously crucial for financial stability that high and comparable supervisory standards are maintained everywhere. This has long been recognised in the field of banking regulation.
However, the exciting contributions of the past conference days show the opposite: the latest developments in the field of cash production, the innovative methods presented in the fight against banknote counterfeiting and cybercrime, as well as the highly topical discussion on sustainability all speak for the fact that this supposedly “old world of payment transactions” is much more modern and promising than it might seem at first glance.