stephen s poloz : launch of new $ 10 note remarks by mr stephen s poloz, governor of the bank of canada, at the launch of the new $ 10 note, winnipeg, manitoba, 19 november 2018. * * * we are here today to celebrate the end of a long journey. a canadian journey. today, we celebrate the launch of this incredible new $ 10 note. bank notes are more than secure means of payment that canadians can use with confidence. they also tell the stories that have shaped our country. now, each time this new vertical $ 10 bill changes hands, it will remind us of our continued pursuit of human rights and social justice in canada. bringing a new bank note from concept to reality is a remarkably complex process. few people realize just how long the process is — work on this note started 2½ years ago and the planning for it goes back twice as far. and the process involves a wide range of people. some have an obvious role — the historians, researchers and graphic designers, for example, who make the note beautiful and meaningful. photographers and engravers also play an important part. but others involved in the process aren ’ t quite as obvious — the chemists, physicists and engineers who do the research on the polymer and help develop the features that make our notes so secure. and then there are all our partner groups, many of which are represented here today, and the bank staff who work closely with them. we truly appreciate the assistance of the financial institutions who distribute the notes across the country. we expect that they will be available at local branches throughout canada over the next few weeks. and we appreciate the help of the retailers who handle the notes and the law enforcement agencies that work to make sure that counterfeiting remains very low. so yes, it ’ s a long and involved process and a lot of hard work. but it ’ s the hard work that makes the process so worthwhile and the celebration so sweet. i want to highlight a couple of things that made bringing this note to reality so special. the first is the public ’ s involvement in designing the note. finance minister bill morneau agreed with me that it was long past time to feature an iconic canadian woman on the front of a regularly circulating bank note. so, the bank asked canadians to tell us who that woman should be. and that invitation unleashed a flood of nominations — over 25, 000 of them. an expert panel helped us comb through them all. this turned

mario draghi : ecb press conference – introductory statement introductory statement by mr mario draghi, president of the european central bank, and mr vitor constancio, vice - president of the european central bank, frankfurt am main, 3 september 2015. * * * ladies and gentlemen, the vice - president and i are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference. we will now report on the outcome of today ’ s meeting of the governing council. as usual, let me start with the decisions taken. based on our regular economic and monetary analysis, and in line with our forward guidance, the governing council decided to keep the key ecb interest rates unchanged. our asset purchase programme continues to proceed smoothly. regarding non - standard monetary policy measures, following the announced review of the public sector purchase programme ’ s issue share limit after the first six months of purchases, the governing council decided to increase the issue share limit from the initial limit of 25 % to 33 %, subject to a case - by - case verification that this would not create a situation whereby the eurosystem would have blocking minority power, in which case the issue share limit would remain at 25 %. underlying our monetary policy assessment was a review of recent data, new staff macroeconomic projections and an interim evaluation of recent market fluctuations. the information available indicates a continued though somewhat weaker economic recovery and a slower increase in inflation rates compared with earlier expectations. more recently, renewed downside risks have emerged to the outlook for growth and inflation. however, owing to sharp fluctuations in financial and commodity markets, the governing council judged it premature to conclude on whether these developments could have a lasting impact on the outlook for prices and on the achievement of a sustainable path of inflation towards our medium - term aim, or whether they should be considered to be mainly transitory. accordingly, the governing council will closely monitor all relevant incoming information. it emphasises its willingness and ability to act, if warranted, by using all the instruments available within its mandate and, in particular, recalls that the asset purchase programme provides sufficient flexibility in terms of adjusting the size, composition and duration of the programme. in the meantime, we will fully implement our monthly asset purchases of €60 billion. these purchases have a favourable impact on the cost and availability of credit for firms and households. they are intended to run until the end of september 2016, or beyond, if necessary, and, in any case, until we see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation that is