|
24 January
Lunch,
Brussels | Payment
Systems for the 21st century: Making e-commerce work |
| Chair | Karla
Peijs MEP | |
| Guest
speakers | Gerhard
Hartsink (Senior Executive Vice President of Operations, ABN Amro Bank)
Gilbert
Lichter, (Chairman EBA)
Hans van der Velde, (CEO Visa Europe)
|
27
February
open dinner,
Brussels | Regulation
of European Securities Markets: The Conclusions of the 'Wise Men's Group' - Where
to go from here? |
|
Chair | Robert
Goebbels MEP
| |
| Guest
speakers | Baron
Alexander Lamfalussy (Chairman Wise Men's Committee)
Norbert Walter (Chief
Economist, Deutsche Bank)
Georg Wittich (President of FESCO)
|
13
March
lunch, Brussels | Raising
Capital for Europe's Growth Economy: Towards Entrepreneurship and a European Venture
Capital Market |
|
Chair | Richard Balfe
MEP
| |
| Guest
speakers | Rainer
Riess (Head of Neuer Markt, Deutsche Börse)
Liz Hewitt, (Head of Corporate
Affairs, 3i Group)
|
11
April
lunch, Brussels | Electronic
commerce and financial services: Impact on European Financial Markets |
|
Chair | Chris Huhne
MEP | |
| Guest
speakers | Rod
Sinclair (CEO Instinet Europe)
Arturo Morin (Deputy CEO of Uno-E, BBVA)
|
15
May
open dinner,
Strasbourg | Financial
Services Action Plan: Two years on - Achievements and Prospects |
| Chair | Theresa
Villiers MEP | |
| Key note speaker:
| Frits
Bolkestein (Commissioner, DG Internal Market)
|
| Panellist: | Onno
Ruding (Vice-chairman Citibank)
|
19
June
lunch, Brussels | Combating
money laundering: the financial services implications |
| Chair | Olle
Schmidt MEP | |
| Guest
speakers | Doug
Hopton (Head of Fraud & Money Laundering Prevention, Barclays Bank)
Dr
Michael Levi (Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University)
Christian Jacquier
(Head of the Financial Crime Unit of Europol)
|
9
October
lunch, Brussels | Practical
Aspects of the euro introduction |
| Chair | Carles-Alfred
Gasoliba i Bohm MEP | |
| Guest
speakers | Eugenio
Domingo Solans, Member of the Board, ECB
Xavier Durieu, Secretary General,
Eurocommerce
|
6
November
lunch, Brussels | Market
Manipulation: is legislation needed? |
| Chair | Charles
Tannock MEP
| |
| Guest
speakers | Michel
Prada, President COB
Eldon Pethybridge, Director Legal & Regulatory, Centrica
Energy
Paul Arlman, Secretary General, FESE
|
22
November
lunch, Brussels | Retail
financial services and consumers: what Europe can offer |
| Chair | Astrid
Lulling MEP | |
| Guest
speakers | Ruth
Kelly, Economic Secretary to Her Majesty's Treasury, UK
Martine Brachet, Head
of Interbank Relationships, Société Générale
|
4
December
lunch, Brussels | European
Prospectuses: a step forward? |
| Chair | Peter
Skinner MEP | |
| Guest
speakers | Franz-Josef
Leven (Deutsches Aktieninstitut); Salvatore Bragantini (former FESCO group on
prospectuses); Gregor Pozniak (FESE);Roger Munger(ABN)
|
