We must work together to build on the gains already made to secure a sustained economic recovery, as well as to build a new financial regulatory framework that will reflect the lessons of this crisis and prevent a recurrence of the events of the past two years.
I hope and expect that, when we meet here a year from now, we will be able to claim substantial progress toward both those objectives. 21  See Ben S. Bernanke (2009), "Financial Reform to Address Systemic Risk," speech delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, March 10. BIS Review 27/2009  9