09.00 – 09.10 Moderator’s opening remarks
09.10 – 11.00 Panel 1 – How can we move the dialogue forward?
Possible discussion points:
- How can legal risk and regulatory uncertainty due to disparities between the EU and the US regimes be reduced?
- Is mutual regulatory recognition the best way to reduce compliance complexity?
- Is there a risk that mutual recognition could weaken current respective regulations?
- Should recognition be conditional on reciprocal market access?
- Does mutual recognition require identical legal texts or should the objective and the outcome of the regulation be decisive?
- How can we prevent the on-going regulatory reform on both sides of the Atlantic from causing the two regimes to drift even further apart?
- How can timely pooling of information be facilitated across-the-board and how can we avoid inconsistent implementation?
- Is achieving regulatory coherence in specific pieces of legislation and proposals such as Dodd-Frank vs EMIR and Volcker vs Liikanen a conceivable objective?
Speaker line-up
Dr Kay Swinburne Member of the European Parliament
Olivier Guersent Deputy Director General, DG MARKT, European Commission
Mark Sobel Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Finance, US Treasury
Larry Thompson Managing Director & General Counsel, DTCC
Moderator: Simon Puleston Jones Chief Executive Officer, FIA Europe
11.00 – 11.10 Coffee break
11.10 – 11.20 Keynote speech: Ignacio Garcia Bercero Director, DG TRADE, European Commission, EU Chief Negotiator, Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership
11.20 – 13.00 Panel 2 – Bilateral vs. multilateral dialogue
Possible discussion points:
- Is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) the right forum for financial regulation dialogue? How should financial regulation be integrated in TTIP?
- Should the EU and the US lead the way or should we move away from an EU-US dialogue and towards a global dialogue?
- How can we foresee the role of international bodies such as G20, the Financial Stability Board and IOSCO?
- Is more power to international standard setters a possible way towards global convergence?
Speaker line-up
Paulina Dejmek-Hack Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Michel Barnier, DG MARKT, European Commission
Karel Lannoo Chief Executive Officer, Centre for European Policy Studies
Ignacio Garcia Bercero Director, DG TRADE, European Commission, EU Chief Negotiator, TTIP – Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership
Prof. Emilios Avgouleas Chair in International Banking Law and Finance, University of Edinburgh
John Cooke Chairman of TheCityUK’s Liberalisation of Trade in Services Committee
Moderator: Simon Puleston Jones Chief Executive Officer, FIA Europe
