*  *  *  Distinguished Invited Guests; Members of the media; Ladies and Gentlemen; I would like to welcome all of you to the Bank of Namibia this morning. The occasion today is to officially launch the commencement of the Financial Intelligence Act and to also launch our public awareness campaign.
The scope of the Federal Reserve’s Year 2000 activities includes remediation and testing of all components of these processing environments, the supporting telecommunications network, and all of the many systems supporting the operations of this complex organization. That is just for payment systems; bank supervision and monetary policy management pose challenges of similar magnitude.