from the University College London. Anna Ilyina: Mrs. Ilyina is Chief of the Emerging Economies Division in the IMF’s European Department since 2013. Before that, she was Deputy Chief of the Global Markets Analysis Division and of the Financial Sector Analysis Division in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Mrs. Ilyina holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A.
This central reserve stock of euro banknotes will further contribute to a smooth cash changeover. As part of the efforts to prepare for the threat posed by forgery of the euro, the ECB is establishing a Counterfeit Analysis Centre and a Counterfeit Monitoring System in order to enhance the protection of the euro by providing comprehensive technical and statistical information on counterfeiting.