Johannes Beermann: Back to the roots - cash and its core functions Remarks by Dr Johannes Beermann, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the International Cash Conference, Munich, 10 September 2019. * * *  1 Introduction Good morning ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this year’s International Cash Conference.
As the member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank responsible for cash management, I am particularly delighted to see the active research agenda that all of you are pursuing in the field of cash. This made it both difficult and easy for us to put together this year’s programme.