Geoff Bascand: Innovation and risk management – insights from Executive Management at Statistics New Zealand and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Address by Mr Geoff Bascand, Deputy Governor and Head of Operations of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Mr Steve Gordon, Head of Risk Assessment and Assurance of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, Wellington, 24 June 2014.
Just last week, for example, experts from the Bundesbank and the Banca d’Italia came together to exchange ideas on the possibilities for settling securities in central bank money using innovative market solutions based on distributed ledger technology (DLT).1 Ladies and gentlemen, Payment systems are just one example of the especially close cooperation between Germany 1/3  BIS central bankers' speeches  and Italy within the Eurosystem.