 Today, I want to show you one of my business areas, market operations. Our markets team is running our lending operations with banks. They are also trading in financial markets. In the last two governing council meetings, we raised our key interest rates to bring inflation back to our 2% target. Higher rates make it more expensive for banks to borrow money from us, which in turn raises the rates people and firms have to pay on their loans. The market floor is where my colleagues put our monetary policy decisions into practice. When we buy a bond from a bank, the bank in turn receives money on their ECB account. My colleagues also monitor and analyze what's happening in financial markets, which helps me to brief the governing council before our monetary policy decisions. This is how we contribute to our main task, keeping prices stable in the euro area.