- A joint conference of the European Central Bank and the European Commission
Financial integration and stability: towards a more resilient single EU financial market
Frankfurt am Main, Thursday, 26 April 2012 - from 9.00 a.m. to 4.15 p.m.
By invitation only
This year’s conference on financial integration and stability will put the spotlight on the EU’s single financial market.
Under the heading “Financial integration and stability: towards a more resilient single EU financial market”, a selected group of key policy-makers, financial market leaders and academics will come together at the ECB.
The ECB President, Mario Draghi, and the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Michel Barnier, will share insights into the EU’s single financial market programme and the crisis, analysing where we stand and looking ahead to what will happen next.
Two high-level panels will discuss how to revitalise the single EU financial market and the implications of macroeconomic imbalances and the sovereign bond crisis for financial integration in the euro area. The ECB’s and the Commission’s latest policy reports on financial stability and integration, respectively the 2012 Report on Financial Integration in Europe and the 2011 European Financial Stability and Integration Report, will be presented at the conference.
Press release: Setback for financial integration in 2011
Publication:
Financial integration in Europe, April 2012
| 9.00 to 9.30 a.m. | Registration and welcome coffee |
| 9.30 to 9.45 a.m. | Opening Mario Draghi President of the European Central Bank speech |
| 9.45 to 10.45 a.m. | Policy reports European Financial Stability and Integration Report Nadia Calviño Deputy Director General, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission presentation Report on Financial Integration in Europe Vítor Constâncio Vice-President of the European Central Bank presentation |
| 10.45 to 11.00 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11.00 to 11.30 a.m. | Keynote speech: The single EU financial market programme and the crisis – what was aimed for, where do we stand? Moderator: Vítor Constâncio Vice-President of the European Central Bank Keynote speaker: Michel Barnier Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, European Commission |
| 11.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. | High-level panel: Revitalising the single EU financial market Moderator: Nadia Calviño Deputy Director General, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission Monique Goyens Director General of the European Consumers’ Organisation presentation Malcolm Harbour Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Jan Hommen Vice-Chairman of the European Financial Services Round Table, Chief Executive Officer of ING André Sapir Professor of Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Senior Fellow at Bruegel |
| 12.45 to 2.00 p.m. | Lunch |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |
| 2.00 to 2.30 p.m. | Keynote speech: The single EU financial market programme: the impact of the sovereign bond crisis on financial integration - what’s next? Moderator: Vítor Constâncio Vice-President of the European Central Bank Keynote speaker: Peter Sutherland Chairman of Goldman Sachs International |
| 2.30 to 4.00 p.m. | High-level panel: Implications of macroeconomic imbalances and of the sovereign bond crisis for financial integration in the euro area Moderator: Peter Praet Executive Board member of the European Central Bank Mathias Dewatripont Director of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique Steven Maijoor Chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority presentation Thierry Philipponnat Secretary General of Finance Watch speech Guido Ravoet Secretary General of the European Banking Federation Herbert Stepic Chief Executive Officer of the Raiffeisen Bank International AG |
| 4.00 to 4.15 p.m. | Closing remarks Vítor Constâncio Vice-President of the European Central Bank |
| Conference venue | European Central Bank Eurotower Conference Room CIV, 2nd floor Kaiserstrasse 29 60311 Frankfurt am Main Germany |
| Programme | The conference is by invitation only. |
| Organisers | ECB-FIS-Conference-2012@ecb.europa.eu. |
| Contact for logistical arrangements | Directorate Communications Publishing, Events and Protocol Division E-mail: evp-events@ecb.europa.eu |