Yves Mersch: Medium to long-term priorities of Capital Markets Union (CMU) for the ECB/Eurosystem Panel remarks by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Eurofi conference, Luxembourg, 10 September 2015. *  *  *  While the Green Paper has set the right overall objectives of CMU and identified priorities for early action and the measures for the medium- to long-term, CMU needs to be pursued through a higher level of ambition to achieve greater capital markets development and deeper financial integration. 1. To bring about its expected benefits, the CMU should foster and result in a high level of financial integration in capital markets across the EU based on an adequate legal and regulatory framework. This would imply more steps towards greater harmonization of 1.  bankruptcy law,  2.  company law and  3.  taxation of financial products  that pose great political challenges. The aim is to ensure that investors have the same costs and equal access to finance irrespective of where they are located in the EU. Ultimately, the supervisory architecture will also warrant revision. The final destination in the path towards CMU will need to include the development of a single rulebook. These elements are key if we are to attain what has been ambitiously coined as CMU. 2. A schedule with clear milestones and deadlines in the upcoming action plan would facilitate implementation. 3. Market-led initiatives to promote capital markets are important but insufficient.
Steps taken as part of the liraization policy, including deposits converted from foreign currency and gold that constitute one of our reserve build-up tools, have not produced a net cost for the Bank's balance sheet. Deposit accounts converted from foreign currency and gold, Turkish lira securities maintained in line with the changes made in the collateral policy, the varying interest cost in Turkish lira reserve requirements, changes in commissions for foreign currency reserve requirements, and the increase in Turkish lira rediscount bills due to the liraization in rediscount credits had a balanced total effect on the balance sheet. Distinguished Shareholders, Esteemed Guests, Before concluding my speech, I would also like to mention the major activities we carried out throughout the year to contribute to the financial development of Türkiye. In line with our vision in the field of information technologies, we maintained our studies to develop the technological solutions and systems needed, as well as to ensure the security and continuity of these systems. Accordingly, we supported our payments infrastructure with innovative business models. We developed and introduced the Security Overlay Service (SIPER), to enhance the security of FAST, our Instant and Continuous Transfer of Funds system that we put into implementation in 2021. To expand the use of TR QR Code, another important application in the field of payments, we continued our work on regulation, infrastructure and promotion.