Andreas Dombret: Banks and trust Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the 58th Kreditpolitische Tagung, a conference on the theme of “Banks and trust”, held by the magazine “Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen”, Frankfurt am Main, 9 November 2012.
* 1  *  *  Banks in the service of society  Banks and trust – this is a wide-ranging topic which relates both to individual institutions and to the economy as a whole, and one which I would like to take up from the point of view of a central banker whose responsibilities also include the stability of the financial system.