Jean-Claude Trichet: An anchor of stability and confidence Contribution by Mr Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, 26 March 2010. *  *  *  The public at large generally takes notice of central bank activities mostly when there are special circumstances.
The bank lending survey leaves no basis for concluding that loan applications from borrowers who are considered creditworthy under the tightened credit policies of the recession are rejected to any considerable extent on the grounds of shortage of capital in banks and mortgage-credit institutes – yet.