That’s why, as we review the issues with open-ended funds, we intend to have in mind not just how reform could promote financial stability, but also how it can promote the supply of productive finance too. Because we all want not just stability in our financial system, but opportunity from it too. Conclusion  We all want a financial system that serves the economy in bad times and good. It’s an ambitious outcome that we’ve been tasked with promoting. But it’s an outcome that households and businesses deserve. They didn’t get what they deserved before the financial crisis and certainly didn’t get what they deserved in the crisis. Instead they saw opportunity constrained and the economy crunched. Now, after a decade of reform, the core of the system is, or is being made, resilient to a wide range of challenges it might face. And with that, opportunities have, or are being, unlocked for finance to better serve the economy. It would be contrary to our mandate and costly to the economy if we were to row back on those reforms. Our focus is instead on the future. On sustaining a financial system that serves in bad times and good; a system offering stability and opportunity. To sustain that in a changing world and changing financial system, we don’t need more or fixed rules. We need agility. Agility to respond to new challenges and ensure stability. And agility to open up new opportunity.
Bwalya K E Ng’andu: Improving the investment climate in Zambia Opening remarks by Dr Bwalya K E Ng’andu, Deputy Governor (Operations) of the Bank of Zambia, at the Foreign Private Investment & Investor Perception Survey 2011 Dissemination Workshop, Lusaka, 22 December 2011. *  *  *  Permanent Secretaries; Chief Executive Officers; Distinguished Participants; Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to welcome you all, on behalf of the Bank of Zambia, the Zambia Development Agency and the Central Statistical Office, to this Foreign Private Investment and Investor Perceptions 2011 Survey Dissemination Workshop. I want also to take this opportunity to thank the companies that participated in the Survey which was conducted by the three institutions in the third quarter of 2011. The insights and the various valuable revelations on the investment climate in Zambia contained in the survey report were only made possible by their co-operation and support to the process. We want to thank them most sincerely. This dissemination workshop is built around two objectives. The first one is to give representatives of respondent companies the chance to comment on the contents of the report. In this sense, this can be considered as a validation workshop from which inputs into the final version of the report will be received. The second objective is to give the three institutions that commissioned the survey the opportunity to receive feedback on what the community of investors considers to be the main issues in investment.