Monday, 14 November 2005
 

14.30-15.00

 Registration

15.00-15.25

WELCOME AND PRESENTATION

Mr. Chris De Noose, Chairman of the WSBI-ESBG Management Committee (speech .pdf)
 

15.25-15.35

OPENING ADDRESS

Mr. Joaquín Almunia, Commissioner, Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Commission (speech .pdf)
 

SESSION 1: THE PATH TO EFFECTIVE SUPERVISION

The US or the EU model of supervision, are they examples to follow? Advantages and challenges with US and EU style supervision and their applicability and relevance to solving the supervision problem in an integrated market.

15.35-16.00

KEYNOTE SPEECH 1 – THE US PERSPECTIVE

Mr. John M. Reich, Director, Office of Thrift Supervision

16.00-16.25

KEYNOTE SPEECH 2 – THE EU PERSPECTIVE

Mr. Patrick Pearson, Head of Banking & Financial Conglomerates, Internal Market and Services DG, European Commission

16.25-16.50

Coffee break

16.50-18.50

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A SESSION: SUPERVISION BEST PRACTICE, LESSONS FROM THE US AND THE EU

MODERATOR: Mr. David Keefe, Joint Editor of Global Risk Regulator

PARTICIPANTS:

Mr. Scott M. Albinson, Managing Director, Examinations, Supervision & Consumer Protection, Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)

Mr. José María Roldán, Chairman, Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS); Director General of Regulation, Banco de España

Mr. Patrick Pearson, Head of Banking & Financial Conglomerates, Internal Market and Services DG, European Commission

Mr. Michael G. Martinson, Senior Adviser, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve (FED)

Ms. Kathleen Klehm Marinangel, President and CEO, McHenry Savings Bank and Member of the Board of America's Community Bankers
(speech .pdf)

Ms. Michaela Koller, Member of the Management Committee, WSBI-ESBG

Mr. Pete D. Hirsch, Project Manager, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection, Large Bank Supervision Section, FDIC

18.30

COCKTAIL

Tuesday, 15 November 2005
 

SESSION 2: A SINGLE PAYMENTS AREA, ILLUSORY DREAM OR IMMINENT REALITY?

Developments in facilitating pan-European payments and harmonizing payments at the EU level, what has been achieved since the introduction of the Euro? What has yet to be achieved to get the EU closer to a single payments area? Payments in the US, is there a single American payment area after two centuries of a common currency? What are the most important current payments issues in the US? What can the EU and the US learn from each other and what should they avoid replicating?
 

9.30-9.50

KEYNOTE SPEECH 1 – THE US PERSPECTIVE

Mr. Mark W. Olson, Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (speech .pdf)

9.50-10.20

KEYNOTE SPEECH 2 – THE EU PERSPECTIVE

Ms. Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (speech .pdf)

10.20-10.35

Coffee break  

10.35-12.30

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A SESSION: THE PROMISES OF A SINGLE PAYMENTS AREA

MODERATOR: Mr. Peter Norman, Former Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times

Mr. David Deacon, Head of Unit, Internal Market and Services DG, European Commission

Ms. Priscilla Holland, Senior Director, International and Corporate Payments, NACHA

Mr.Denis Beau, Chairman of the Payment Systems Policy Working Group of ECB

Mr. Norbert Bielefeld, Deputy Director Payments, WSBI-ESBG

12.30-13.45

Lunch 

SESSION 3: A NEW STRUCTURE FOR CAPITAL MARKETS

Establishing a level playing field in trading rules, the difficulties of putting through legislation that guarantees liquid, efficient, transparent and competitive capital markets. How regulation can keep up with market evolution, lessons from the US (e.g. current reform of the market structure) and the EU (e.g. initial achievements and future prospects for the Lamfalussy process). Which mechanisms to ensure EU / US convergence of future securities regulation?
 

13.45-14.10

KEYNOTE SPEECH 1 – THE US PERSPECTIVE

Mr. Charles M. Horn, Senior Partner, Mayer Brown (speech .pdf)
 

14.10-14.35

KEYNOTE SPEECH 2 – THE EU PERSPECTIVE

Mr. Alexander Schaub, Director General, Internal Market and Services DG, European Commission (speech .pdf)
 

14.35-14.55

Coffee break 

14.55-16.50

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A SESSION: THE FUTURE OF CAPITAL MARKETS

MODERATOR: Mr. Karl-Burkhard Caspari, Chairman, Market Transparency Expert Group, Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR); Vice-President of the German Financial Services Authority (BaFin)

Mr. Charles M. Horn, Senior Partner, Mayer Brown

Dr. Heiko Beck, General Counsel, DekaBank

Mr. Sabino Fornies Martinez, Policy Desk Officer, Securities Markets, Internal Market and Services DG, European Commission

Mr. Ludovic Aigrot, Director European Affairs, Euronext
 

16.50-17.00

CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

Mr. Chris De Noose, Chairman of the WSBI-ESBG Management Committee (conclusions .pdf)