Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Vision of Asia Speech by Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia, at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) – “Vision of Asia Award Acceptance Speech”, London, 30 June 2010. *  *  *  It is my great honour to be here today to receive this Vision of Asia Award from the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). I would like to thank Lord Desai, for his generous introduction and the advisory board of OMFIF for this recognition. As a policy maker from an emerging economy in Asia – for almost three decades – it has been both exhilarating and most rewarding. While being challenged to the limit, in particular, during the Asian financial crisis, the Asian economies have now emerged stronger and more resilient. This decade has seen a dramatic change in the nature of the globalisation process. As this process intensifies, Asian economies have demonstrated their flexibility to adjust and respond to the opportunities and challenges that have emerged. The initial wave of globalisation was in the form of trade. This was followed by the globalisation of corporations and more recently by the globalisation of financial flows. The recent global financial and economic crisis has called for the globalisation of policy given the limits for policy at the national level and the need to address cross border developments that have implications on the domestic financial system and hence the domestic economy.
Nina Stoyanova: The history of Bulgaria’s money Welcome address by Ms Nina Stoyanova, Deputy Governor (Banking Department) of the Bulgarian National Bank, at the opening of “The History of Money on the Bulgarian Lands” exhibition, jointly organised by Burgas Municipality and the Bulgarian National Bank, Burgas, 10 June 2016. *  *  *  Mayor Nickolov, Dear citizens and guests of Burgas, It is a great honour for me to welcome you at the opening of this exhibition entitled ‘The History of Money on the Bulgarian Lands’. Co-organisers of the exhibition are Burgas Municipality and the Bulgarian National Bank. This exhibition comprises coins and coin-like items minted and circulated on today’s Bulgarian lands from antiquity to the present day, and the major part of these comes from the BNB’s museum collection. Before we go back in time, I would like to mention that the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) is one of the oldest public institutions in Bulgaria. It was founded immediately after the reestablishment of the Bulgarian state, on 25 January 1879, and on 6 June of that same year the first banking transaction was carried out with the BNB’s involvement. Our central bank is also one of the oldest central banks in the world – the 13th oldest one by date of foundation. Today the BNB still is the independent issuing authority of Bulgaria.