*  *  *  Introduction It is a great honor to be invited to the 2013 Spring Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Monetary Economics. The Bank of Japan’s mission is to ensure price stability and financial system stability.
Andreas Dombret: New regulation on trading with OTC derivatives Introductory statement by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, to the panel discussion “Financial markets – finding a regulatory normal”, Euro Finance Week Conference, Frankfurt am Main, 20 November 2012. * 1.