Financial education and the Bank of England Speech given by Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor Monetary Policy  Helping children and young people learn about money conference, London 3 July 2019  I am grateful to Mette Nielsen and Ratidzo Starkey for their assistance in preparing these remarks. The views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Bank of England or other members of the Financial Policy Committee or the Monetary Policy Committee. 1  All speeches are available online at www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/speeches  Welcome Hello and thank you for asking me along today. These are very important issues and I’m grateful to be able to talk to you. My purpose today is to set out a few things we’ve been doing at the Bank to help schools with economics education. Some of this, I should say, is self-interested. Over time, we benefit from having a large and diverse pool of well trained economists who might consider working for us. The same is true of many other institutions. More significantly, public understanding of what the Bank of England is for, and what it does, is very important. It matters because it is the general public that constitute our ultimate and most important stakeholders. Although the public already hold us to account via parliament, it’s important that we can explain ourselves, and in turn listen to people’s concerns, people, more directly.
François Villeroy de Galhau: How to develop a “financial Eurosystem” post-Brexit Closing remarks by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at theEurofi High Level Seminar 2019, Bucharest, 5 April 2019. * * * Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a pleasure to be in Bucharest today to conclude this Eurofi High Level Seminar. I am grateful to D. Wright and D. Cahen for offering me the opportunity to give this keynote speech... but perhaps less grateful about the theme they asked me to address: “Opportunities for developing EU autonomy in the financial area post-Brexit”. We are still faced with great uncertainties, and Brexit is and remains bad news, not only for the United Kingdom, but also for Europe. This unchartered territory has nevertheless the merit of making one thing very clear: it costs dearly to leave the single market. So we are still hoping for the best, but we have to prepare for the worst: a no-deal Brexit and all the risks it implies. This will be my first point today. Then, your theme obliges us to look ahead, beyond Brexit: Europeans should use the demands created by the current context to build a more integrated “financial Eurosystem”, and add some pillars to Europe’s financial sovereignty. **  I. Preparing for the risks It has been – first and foremost – the responsibility of the financial industry itself to prepare for the consequences of Brexit, starting with the loss of EU passporting rights.