21st Colloquium of the Institut für Bank- und Finanzgeschichte e. V. (Institute for Banking and Financial History)
Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret takes a positive view of the latest reforms in banking regulation. Speaking at an event in Frankfurt am Main, he noted that an effective and, at the same time, balanced path had been taken. He reminded the audience that the agreed reforms now need to be rigorously implemented.
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Diana Rutzka-Hascher, President of the Bundesbank’s Regional Office in Hesse, welcoming the colloquium participants. -
Former Bundesbank President Ernst Welteke was also in attendance. -
Bundesbank Executive Board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele used his speech to explore the origins of the financial crisis and the global regulatory agenda which followed in its wake. -
Colloquium participants. -
Professor Joseph Huber (Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg) presenting his sovereign money initiative. -
Colloquium participants exchanging ideas. -
Questions from the floor. -
Professor Volker Wieland (German Council of Economic Experts) explaining how the Council proposes to stabilise the financial system. -
Bundesbank Executive Board member Dr Andreas Dombret reminding the audience that the agreed reforms in banking regulation now need to be rigorously implemented. -
Andreas Dombret, Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), Daniel Schäfer (Handelsblatt journalist and moderator), Joseph Huber and Volker Wieland (from left to right)