Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished panellists, Claudia and Joachim, It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you all to this symposium. This is a farewell symposium. We at the Deutsche Bundesbank want to say goodbye to you, Claudia and Joachim. We also want to give our sincere thanks for what you have achieved for the Bundesbank. And we want do so publicly now. I say that because we already did this privately when you both left the Bundesbank at the end of last year. You requested a content-driven event, a symposium on the future of digitalisation and the financial industry, a topic of major importance to both of ... (full story)