*  *  *  Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great honor for me to be here today at the 15th Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference at the University of Helsinki. As Governor of the Bank of Finland I have the good fortune to meet a lot of interesting colleagues from other central banks, both from Europe and other continents.
Transatlantic contacts are also close. When the Bank of Finland, an old institution, organized its 200th Anniversary Conference in 2011, we had many prominent speakers. Let me name just two of them, who both recently have taken up new duties.