Conference "Current Challenges of Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Sector"

CIRSF – Research Centre on Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Sector
ANNUAL SUMMER CONFERENCE – 2013
With the Support of the JEAN MONNET Program – European Commission
In Scientific Partnership with the Bank of Portugal and the Institute of Insurance of Portugal
Auditorium of the Bank of Portugal – Lisboa - Portugal
28 June 2013

Current Challenges of Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Sector
The Key Building-Blocks of the European Banking Union Oriented Towards Avoiding Financial Markets Fragmentation and the Ongoing Process of Reinforcing Financial Stability at a Macro-Prudential Level (Banking and Insurance)

 CIRSF
(Scientific Coordination – Luis Morais)

Programme:

10h
Opening Statement

Pedro Duarte Neves (Vice-Governor of the Bank of Portugal)
José Figueiredo Almaça (President of the Institute of Insurance of Portugal)

Brief Introductory Words – CIRSF
Eduardo Paz Ferreira/Luis Silva Morais

First Panel – How to Recapitalize Banks Worldwide – The US and EU Perspective
 Speakers:

• Garry Schinasi (Expert on Financial Stability – Former Consultant of IMF)

• Harald Benink (Tilburg University - Erasmus University Rotterdam/Chairman of European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee - ESFRC)

15h
Second Panel  - European Banking Union and the Reinforcement of Financial Stability
Speakers:

• Karel Lannoo (the Centre for European Policy Studies/CEPS – Brussels – Chief Executive Officer)

• Jean-Pierre Zigrand [Director of London School of Economics (LSE) Centre on Systemic Risk]

• Michael Taylor (Financial Stability Board – Basel)

• René Smits (University of Amsterdam/UVA)

Closing:
Carlos Costa (Governor of the Bank of Portugal)