To Συνέδριο πραγματοποιήθηκε στην Αθήνα, στο ξενοδοχείο Μεγάλη Βρετανία.
Θα επισυναφθεί η πρόσκληση και το πρόγραμμα της εκδήλωσης (Συνημμένα 2).
Θεματικές:
- Acceptance of deposits: Funding for credit institutions and depositors’ trust
- Lending / Financing
- Payment Services / FX products
- Universal banking vs. ring fencing of investment activities
- Segmentation of the single market as a result of the financial crisis?
1st Day, Friday, 8 November
Welcome and opening remarks: “European Banking and Financial law in Times of Change” By Dr. Dimitris Tsibanoulis, AEDBF Chairman
1st Panel:
“Acceptance of deposits: Funding for credit institutions and depositors’ trust”
Coordinator/Chair: Michel Tison, Professor in Banking and Capital Markets Law, Financial Law Institute, Ghent University
Presentations:
Charoula Apalagaki, Professor of Civil Procedure at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Counsel of Piraeus Bank (Greece): “Nature and characteristics of Bank deposits and their function”
Michel Tison, Professor in Banking and Capital Markets Law, Financial Law Institute, Ghent University (Belgium): “Deposits guarantee”
Iakovos Anagnostopoulos, Tsibanoulis & Partners (Greece): “Latest developments towards deposits transferability within the EU: a further step towards depositors’ trust?”
With the participation of Yiangos Charalambous, F.C.C.A, representing the Cooperative Bank of Chania LLC (Greece): The own funds issue in cooperative banks
2nd Panel:
Lending / Financing (1st part)
Coordinator/Chair: Jean-Pierre Mattout, Professor of International Banking Law, Financial and Monetary Law at Paris II University Pantheon Assas, Honorary AEDBF Chairman, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Presentations:
Roberto Ferretti, Studio Legale Bonora e Associati (Italy): “The evolution of the Italian regulation on transparency of lending operations, vis-à-vis the EU policy on protection of consumers and SMBs”
James Grand, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (United Kingdom): “Common law aspects of financing”
Theodore Katsas, Lecturer in Commercial and Business Law at the Demokritus University Law School, Marinos & Partners (Greece): “Premature termination of credit facilities in light of prevailing market circumstances”
Claudio Bonora, Honorary AEDBF Chairman, Studio Legale Bonora e Associati (Italy): Regulatory on Usury
Jean-Pierre Mattout, Professor of International Banking Law, Financial and Monetary Law at Paris II University Pantheon Assas, Honorary AEDBF Chairman, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP (France): “25 years of French banking law for financing operations”
With the participation of Dr. Frederik Winter, Linklaters (Germany): “Observations and Developments related to the Capital Requirement Directive IV and Capital Requirement Regulation”
3rd Panel:
Payment Services / FX products
Coordinator/Chair: Anna Pouliou, Vice President & Senior Counsel, Head of Global Anti-Trust, Corporate Privacy & Regulatory, General Counsel’ s Office, First Data Corporation
Presentations
Hubert de Vauplane, Professor of International Banking & Financial Law at the Paris Institute for Political Sciences, Honorary AEDBF Chairman, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP (France): “Developments in FX products during the last 25 years”
Klaus Löber, Head of Secretariat, Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, Bank for International Settlements (Germany): “Innovations in retail payments”
Anna Pouliou, Vice President & Senior Counsel, Head of Global Anti-Trust, Corporate Privacy & Regulatory, General Counsel’ s Office, First Data Corporation (Germany): “The Future of Payments in Europe: Trends in Technology and the EU Legislation Framework Underway”
Michel Santi, Macro Economist, Advisor to Central Banks – Financial Markets Specialist, Switzerland and France (Switzerland), gave a speech over dinner on: “Europe, the Unnecessary Crisis”
2nd Day, Saturday, 9 November
4th Panel:
Universal banking vs. ring fencing of investment activities
Coordinator/Chair: Joanna Perkins, Director, Financial Markets Law Committee
Presentations
Christos Gortsos, Professor of International Economic Law at the Panteion University of Athens, Secretary General of the Hellenic Bank Association (Greece): “Universal banking vs. ring fencing of investment services: the discussion in the 1930s and today: similarities and differences”
Joanna Perkins, Director, Financial Markets Law Committee (United Kingdom): “Ring-fencing: a workable legal framework?”
André Prüm, Professor and Chair in Financial and Business Law, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg): “Banning banks from owning alternative investment vehicles?”
With the participation of Dr. Alexander Boulougouris, Chief Executive Officer, EDEKT Asset Management (Greece)
5th Panel:
Segmentation of the single market as a result of the financial crisis?
Coordinator/Chair: Dr. Sven Schelo, Linklaters Frankfurt
Presentations
Dr. Dimitris Tsibanoulis, AEDBF Chairman, Tsibanoulis & Partners (Greece): “The registered seat as inherent discriminatory factor in the internal market: as to the deposits’ attractiveness for banks and the financing ability for firms”
Inigo Arruga Oleaga, Principal Legal Counsel at the ECB: “Applicable law to instruments issued under foreign law which are subject to subordinated liability exercises”
Ilias Tsintavis, Michael Kyprianou & Co. LLC (Cyprus): “A comparative assessment of Cyprus & Greece as examples of segmentation of the internal banking market as a result of the financial crisis”
Dr. Sven Schelo, Linklaters Frankfurt (Germany): “Do we see segmentation in the way failing banks are restructured or is there a uniform way?”
With the participation of
Dr. Anna Gardella, Legal Expert, European Banking Authority: “The EBA mandate as regards the Single Rulebook and financial integration”
Edouard Fernandez-Bollo, Deputy Secretary General at the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution ACPR (the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority) (France): “The Single supervisory mechanism as a tool against fragmentation”
Closing Remarks By Dr. Costas Botopoulos, Chairman of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission: Recent regulatory developments in the banking sector
Dr. Denis MacShane, former UK Europe Minister gave a speech over lunch on “The EU and the Euro in 2020: Continuity or Rupture?”
Final Remarks by H.E. George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece and President of Socialist International, followed by discussion with Denis MacShane and the conference participants.