Austria
EDS, Orga win Austrian gov't smartcard contract
The Austrian government yesterday provisionally awarded a much delayed smart card contract to US-based Electronic Data Systems Corp and German chipcard manufacturer Orga Kartensysteme. The smart cards will be issued to the approximately eight million…
Tumpel-Gugerell praises transition economies
At the opening of the International East-West Conference entitled "Completing Transition: The Main Challenges", the Central Bank of Austria's vice governor Tumpel-Gugerell highlights positive growth of all transition economies
The euro - a stable anchor for Europe: Liebscher
Dr Klaus Liebscher, governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, gives a speech at a conference in Budapest entitled "Hungarian capital markets: On the verge of convergence".
Liebscher on globalisation of financial markets
On the occasion of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's conference "Financial Crisis - A Never-Ending Story ?", governor Klaus Liebscher highlighted the roles of public policy and central banks in a highly dynamic and complex transformation process of our…
Tumpel-Gugerell: The eternal financial crisis?
Financial crises may hit anywhere, may affect any market, any country, any region, and may erupt all of a sudden, underlined OeNB vice governor Tumpel-Gugerell in her address on the occasion of the opening of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's 1999 East…