The European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum facilitates and strengthens the exchange of information on financial services and Europe's financial markets between the financial industry and the European Parliament
The European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum facilitates and strengthens the exchange of information on financial services and Europe's financial markets between the financial industry and the European Parliament
 

The Forum's Agenda in 2008


26 February

EU/US Financial Market Dialogue
Briefing paper

Chair

Sharon Bowles MEP

Guest speakers Steffen Kern, Director, International Financial Markets Policy, Deutsche Bank AG, and Co-Chairman, Capital Markets Working Group, TABD
Michael Peters, member of the Executive Board, EUREX

26 March
Financial Education and Financial Capability
Briefing paper

Chair Olle Schmidt MEP
Guest speakers

Dara Duguay, Director, Office of Financial Education, Citi
Diederick van Thiel, Head of Consumer Marketing, Retail Banking Netherlands, ING


1 April
Electronic Payments: moving to a cashless society?
Joint event with the European Internet Foundation (EIF)
Briefing paper

Chair Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP
Keynote speaker Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland
Guest speakers

Mark Buitenhek, General Manager, Retail Payments Europe, ING
Dag-Inge Flatraaker, General Manager, DnB NOR; Chairman, Expert Group on e-commerce and mobile channels and payments (e&m), European Payments Council (EPC)
Mung Ki Woo, Vice President, Payments & Contactless, France Telecom - Orange
Olivier Cognet, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Nokia


8 May
Financial Turbulence: lessons to be learned
Briefing paper

Chair Ieke van den Burg MEP  
Guest speakers

Francesco Giordano, Chief Economist, UniCredit
Freddy Van der Spiegel
, Chair, Consultative panel, Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS)


3 June Supervisory Convergence
Briefing paper

Chair Pervenche Berès MEP  
Guest speakers

Helmut Bauer, Managing Director/Head of Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Bank
Luigi Ruggerone, Head of Country Risk and Foreign Subsidiaries, Intesa Sanpaolo


3 June
afternoon

Ordinary General Meeting / FIC Meeting


16 July
MiFID Implementation
Briefing paper

Chair Sophie In’t Veld MEP
Guest speakers

Philip Allison, Managing Director, Member of the UBS Investment Bank Management Board, Head of European Client Trading and Execution; Director, Turquoise Services Ltd
Nigel Kemp, Senior Legal Advisor for MiFID implementation across the EMEA region, Citi
Adam Kinsley, Director of Regulation, London Stock Exchange

speech

 

speech

speech


10 September
Solvency II: outstanding issues
Briefing paper

Chair Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP
Guest speakers

Philip Long, Head of Group Risk, Prudential, Member of the Chief Risk Officers’ Forum
Jos Streppel, Chief Financial Officer, Aegon;Chairman, ECOFIN Committee, CEA

speech

speech


7 October

CRD: Understanding the changes – and why?
Briefing paper


Chair John Purvis MEP  
Guest speakers

Jörg Erlebach, Managing Director, Head of Global Credit Risk and Economic Capital Control, Commerzbank Group
Christian Lajoie, Head of Group Supervision Issues, BNP Paribas


4 November

Will changes to the UCITS Directive open the market?
Briefing paper

Chair

Wolf Klinz MEP

Guest speakers

Francis Candylaftis, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Eurizon Capital (Intesa Sanpaolo’s asset management company)
Jean-Pierre Hellebuyck, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Strategist, AXA Investment Managers


2 December

Understanding current commodities markets
Briefing paper

Guest speakers

Paul Horsnell, Managing Director, Head of Commodities Research, Barclays Capital
Simon Martin, Senior Business Analyst, ICE Futures Europe; and Chair, FESE Derivatives Task Force


2 December
afternoon

Ordinary General Meeting / FIC Meeting


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