08.30 – 09.00 Registration and welcome coffee
09.00 – 09.10 Keynote speech by Paulina Dejmek-Hack, Member of the Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission
09.10 – 09.20 Moderator’s opening remarks
09.20 – 10.55 Panel 1: Achieving long-term growth for Europe
Different players may have different roles to play in channelling funds for longterm investments. Is it possible to create a regulatory environment, which creates the best conditions for each player to fill this role and at the same time preserve a level playing field?
Possible discussion points:
- What role will bank lending play in the future? Can the local knowledge and ability to assess risk that retail banks posses reach their full potential while fulfilling the enhanced prudential requirements? What role can EU banks play in more security based lending?
- What role can institutional investors play? What role can the new European Long Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) play?
- What role can capital market play in channelling funds for long-term investments?
- What role can crowdfunding play in financing long-term growth?
Speaker line-up
Philippe De Backer Member of the European Parliament
Olivier Boutellis-Taft Chief Executive, FEE – Federation of European Accountants
Philippe Maystadt Honorary President of the European Investment Bank and Professor at the Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve & Luxembourg
Judith Hardt Managing Director, Swiss Finance Council
Gerhard Huemer Director Economic Policy, UEAPME
Moderator: Graham Bishop Independent Consultant, EU Financial Regulation
10.55 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 13.00 Panel 2: An increased role for capital markets?
The newly appointed president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has made a capital market union as one of his priorities. How can this be achieved? Can well designed regulation help capital markets raise funding for long-term investments?
Possible discussion points:
- How can EU capital markets be developed as to play a bigger role in funding SMEs? How can capital markets better match providers and users of capital?
- How could the EU encourage SME listings? Are the current rules such as the prospectus directive and the transparency directive to burdensome for SMEs? What relaxations or exemptions could be made to lower the thresholds for SMEs to become listed?
- How can we encourage the development towards EU wide institutional investments?
- How can the regulatory framework stimulate capital markets to increase the focus on the long-term horizon?
- What should be the guiding principles of a Capital Markets Union?
Speaker line-up
Philip Tod Acting Head of Unit C1 – Capital Markets Union, DG FISMA, European Commission
Mark Hutchinson Head of Alternative Credit, M&G Investments
Dr Alexandra Hachmeister Head of Regulatory Strategy, Deutsche Brse Group
Juan Manuel Viver Policy Officer, Better Finance For All
Moderator: Graham Bishop Independent Consultant, EU Financial Regulation
