As a consequence, they have not become outdated, and today they provide a great location for the Amsterdam Financial Forum. It is easy to see a parallel between the architecture of this site and the future global financial architecture, the topic of this session.
We need to keep financial system regulation up to date as well and make quite a few changes and additions to it in the course of time. My term as governor is coming to an end. In about two weeks time, I will hand over the presidency of the Dutch Central Bank to my successor, Klaas Knot.