As the U.S. economy continues to grow and expand—as I expect it will—your personalized customer service, commitment to relationship banking, and adaptability to technological advances will serve you and your communities well. I will miss many aspects of my role at the New York Fed, particularly the opportunities I’ve had to interact with the community bankers in our district. Please enjoy today’s conference, and thank you for coming. 1 Sumeet Batra, Richard Ciccotelli, and Jacqueline Fenton assisted in preparing these remarks. 2 See William C. Dudley, The Importance of Incentives in Ensuring a Resilient and Robust Financial System,  March 26, 2018. 3 Keeton, William & Kahn, George A. & Schroeder, Linda & Weiner, Stuart E., 2003. “The role of community banks  in the U.S. economy,” Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, issue Q II, pages 15–43. 2/2  BIS central bankers' speeches
Maiava Atalina Ainuu Enari: Educating children about money matters Opening remarks by Ms Maiava Atalina Ainuu Enari, Governor of the Central Bank of Samoa, at the Awards Ceremony of the “Be Money $ Financial Literacy Poster Competition 2014, Apia, 14 March 2014. *  *  *  Greetings and welcome to you all, dear parents, school principals and most importantly the winning students of the 2014 Be Money $ poster competition. As I look across the room to the students, parents and principals/school reps,... without a doubt this is a Happy Friday for you all. It gives me great pleasure to say that, this is also a Happy Friday for us at the Central Bank – we are as much excited to reveal the winning poster entries as you are to be here today to receive your awards!! Talofa! Talofa Lava; I am delighted to be here today, at the conclusion of an important initiative for the Central Bank, to address this gathering and most especially the winners of – our first Be Money Wise Financial Literacy Poster Competition. This competition is one of many programs undertaken by the Central Bank to perform one of its mandates of promoting financial literacy under the “FINANCIAL FITNESS” or “FIT for FINANCE” campaign. The “Be Money $ Poster Competition 2014” was also conducted in collaboration with the Global Money Week which is coordinated by Child & Youth Finance International.