We work in partnership with federal and provincial agencies, regulators, and market participants in this area, in order to actively foster the safety and soundness of the financial system. We also have a number of unique responsibilities. It is our role, for example, to oversee those payment, clearing, and settlement systems that could pose systemic risk.
How do we check that all providers that are active over the Internet in the Dutch market do indeed comply with regulatory legislation? This brings me to a recent DNB initiative.