Axel A Weber: The G20 agenda on financial regulation Dinner speech by Professor Axel A Weber, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the International Conference on Financial Market Regulation, Berlin, 19 May 2010. * 1. *  *  Introduction  Ladies and gentlemen, These days it is hard to find a topic that is suitable for a light-hearted dinner speech.
One could either choose to talk about a crisis-related topic, which would mostly be unpleasant, or one could choose to talk about something completely different and run the risk of appearing slightly out of touch with reality. As a compromise, I have decided to talk about one of the more positive outcomes of the crisis – assuming that “positive” is not a misnomer.