Caleb M Fundanga: Access to improved financial services in Zambia Remarks by Dr Caleb M Fundanga, Governor of the Bank of Zambia, at the Standard Chartered Bank M-Banking Media Launch, Lusaka, 17 March 2009. *  *  *  The Standard Chartered Bank Plc – Managing Director, Ms Mizinga Melu Management and Staff – Standard Chartered Bank Zambia Plc Members of the Press; Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen I am honoured and thankful for the invitation to officiate at this important launch of the m-Banking product. Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen; allow me to begin by commending Standard Chartered Bank for the important role it continues to play in the financial sector in Zambia. Since 1906, when Standard Chartered Bank was established in Zambia, the bank has grown to be one of the biggest players in the market. As at 31 January 2009 the bank accounted for about 15% of the banking sector’s total assets, while its deposit base accounted for 18% of total sector deposits. More importantly, the bank’s loan portfolio accounted for 13% of the total loans in the sector. Madam Managing Director, I congratulate you for the Bank’s commitment to providing products and services that best suit the needs of customers. This, in my view, should be emulated by other banks to ensure that more people have access to banking and financial services that are tailor made to meet the needs of customers.
Denis Beau: Moving beyond the first generation of innovation and regulation for tokenized finance - the case of DeFi Address by Mr Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, at the occasion of the change of Bank of France Head of the Asia-Pacific Representative Office, Singapore, 31 March 2023. *** I am glad to be here with you today for this handover reception. It gives me the opportunity and the pleasure to thank François Haas and to welcome Stéphane Latouche as our outgoing and incoming chief representative in Asia and head of the Bank of France Office in Singapour. It also gives me the opportunity to underline our very good and multifaceted cooperation with the MAS, in particular on financial innovation. In my remarks today, I would like to illustrate this cooperation, notably with our work on the development of tokenised finance, and the so-called decentralised finance, and how we, at the Banque de France and the ACPR, are working to respond to this change of paradigm, in line with our financial stability mandate. I. A strengthening of bilateral ties between the ACPR, BdF and MAS, a very close and sustainable partnership between Singapore and France Let me start with what the ACPR, BdF, and MAS have achieved together.