Participation free, registration mandatory

Deadline for registrations: 28 May 2020, 9:30 AM

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The banking sector is at the crossroads to mitigate the adverse economic effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic. While banks were in turmoil during the last financial crisis, this time they may prove instrumental in coping with the COVID-economic aftermath by sustaining their intermediary role in the real economy.
In the euro area, the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted measures in its supervisory competence to ensure banks fulfil their lending role to households and businesses. The ECB adopted supervisory measures on temporary capital and operational relief, with the relaxation of some buffers e.g. allowing banks to go below the Pillar 2 Guidance (P2G), the Capital Conservation Buffer (CCB) and the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) or adapting the composition of capital for Pillar 2 Requirements (P2R). The ECB also introduced flexibility regarding the treatment of non-performing loans (NPLs), as well as recommended the adoption of transitional IFRS 9 rules, amongst others.
Against this background, this online seminar will dive into those supervisory measures and discuss the implications of temporary measures for supervisors and banks.

 

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Moderator

Elena Carletti, Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute

Elena Carletti is Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. She is also at the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute, is a member of Board of Directors of Unicredit SpA and a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). Furthermore, she is research professor at the Bundesbank, a member of the Expert Panel on banking supervision for the European Parliament, a member of the Scientific Committee “Paolo Baffi Lecture” at the Bank of Italy, a member of Bruegel Scientific Committee, Research Fellow at CEPR, Fellow of the Finance Theory Group, CESifo, IGIER, and Wharton Financial Institutions Center. She is the author of numerous articles on Financial Intermediation, Financial Crises and Regulation, Competition Policy, Corporate Governance and Sovereign Debt.

 

 

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Speakers

Edouard Fernandez-Bollo,ECB Supervisory Board

Member of the Supervisory Board at the European Central Bank

 

 

 

 

 

Thorsten Beck, Cass Business School

Thorsten Beck joined the Faculty of Finance in September 2013 as professor of banking and finance. Since 2008 he has been professor of economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and was the founding chair of the European Banking Center from 2008 to 2013. He is also a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Previously he worked in the research department of the World Bank and has also worked as consultant for – among others – the IMF, the European Commission, and the German Development Corporation.

 

 

 

Til Schuermann, Partner and Co-Head of Oliver Wyman’s Risk & Public Policy practice in the Americas.

Til Schuermann advises private and public sector clients on stress testing, capital planning, enterprise-wide risk management, model risk management and corporate governance including board oversight. He participated in the stress testing of the Spanish (2012) and Slovenian (2013) banking systems, and the European Central Bank’s Comprehensive Assessment in 2014. In 2016 Til conducted an assessment of the Bank of England’s stress testing program for the IMF, and recently supported the UN in a global project of estimating the impact of climate risk on banks. Til also is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Financial Advisory Roundtable. Until March 2011, Til was a Senior Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he held numerous positions, including head of Financial Intermediation in Research and head of Credit Risk in Bank Supervision. In Spring 2009, he played a leadership role in the design and execution of the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP – bank stress test), and the subsequent Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) programs. He has numerous publications in both academic and practitioner journals, is on the FRM exam committee for GARP, a member of the advisory board of the NYU Courant Institute Mathematical Finance program, and has taught at Columbia University and at the Wharton School where he is a Research Fellow. Til received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Technical disclaimer

The online seminar will take place on Zoom. Registered participants will receive the credentials to join the event at 10:00 AM (CET) on 28 May 2020.

You can access the seminars from personal computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. To ensure an optimal experience in terms of connection speed and video quality, we suggest to attend the seminar via a device connected to a stable network connection, avoiding if possible shared wi-fi or mobile connections.

Participation free, registration mandatory

Deadline for registrations: 4 June 2020, 9:30 AM

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  In crisis times opinions expressed by Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs), and more specifically their downgrades, tend to provoke shockwaves across the financial system. Downgrades may indeed have a severe impact on sovereigns, banks or on market-based finance players, not least because they may trigger automatic responses both by public actors (e.g. exclusion from collateral frameworks) and by private actors (e.g. divestments or fire sales, exclusions from indexes or ETFs). As is well-known, CRAs also tend to act late and to over-correct, thereby adding to pro-cyclicality.
It can therefore be feared that the soundness of financial actors during the COVID-19 crisis will partly hinge on CRA opinions too. However, the influence of CRAs’ opinions on public actors’ credit worthiness assessment may be slowly vanishing, as the recent decision of the European Central Bank to accept junk bonds among eligible collaterals seems to imply. Against this background this online seminar will take stock of the current regulation and supervision of Credit Rating Agencies in the European Union and will assess the impact of recent or future downgrades on issuers and markets. Lastly, it will explore lessons learned from the supervision of CRAs during the past euro crisis for the current COVID-19 crisis.  

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Moderator

Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Elena Carletti is Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. She is also at the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute, is a member of Board of Directors of Unicredit SpA and a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). Furthermore, she is research professor at the Bundesbank, a member of the Expert Panel on banking supervision for the European Parliament, a member of the Scientific Committee “Paolo Baffi Lecture” at the Bank of Italy, a member of Bruegel Scientific Committee, Research Fellow at CEPR, Fellow of the Finance Theory Group, CESifo, IGIER, and Wharton Financial Institutions Center. She is the author of numerous articles on Financial Intermediation, Financial Crises and Regulation, Competition Policy, Corporate Governance and Sovereign Debt.

   

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Speakers

Stephen Hynes (ESMA)

Gwenael Pover (ESMA)
Senior Supervision Officer at European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)

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Technical disclaimer

The online seminar will take place on the Adobe Connect platform. You can access the seminars from personal computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. You are strongly encouraged to read the technical requirements before registering for the online seminar. To ensure an optimal experience in terms of connection speed and video quality, we suggest to attend the seminar via a device connected to a stable network connection, avoiding if possible shared wi-fi or mobile connections.

Participation free, registration mandatory

Deadline for registrations: 10 June 2020, 9:30 AM

Register here

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Moderator

Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Elena Carletti is Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. She is also at the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute, is a member of Board of Directors of Unicredit SpA and a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). Furthermore, she is research professor at the Bundesbank, a member of the Expert Panel on banking supervision for the European Parliament, a member of the Scientific Committee “Paolo Baffi Lecture” at the Bank of Italy, a member of Bruegel Scientific Committee, Research Fellow at CEPR, Fellow of the Finance Theory Group, CESifo, IGIER, and Wharton Financial Institutions Center. She is the author of numerous articles on Financial Intermediation, Financial Crises and Regulation, Competition Policy, Corporate Governance and Sovereign Debt.

   

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Speakers

Isabel Schnabel Member of the ECB’s Executive Board

Jean-Pierre Mustier President of the European Banking Federation, CEO Unicredit
Jean Pierre Mustier began his career at Société Générale, where he remained from 1987 until 2009, working primarily within the Corporate & Investment Banking division. He held numerous positions in various markets and financing activities, in Europe, but also in Asia and the US.Jean Pierre was appointed head of Société Générale’s Corporate & Investment Banking Division in 2003, and was also a member of the bank’s Executive Committee. In September 2008, he took over the responsibility for Asset Management, Private Banking and Securities Services.After leaving Société Générale at the end of 2009 he has advised many financial institutions and completed large amounts of fundraising for various social enterprises and non-profit institutions, also as trustee.
In early 2011 he joined UniCredit as Deputy General Manager in charge of the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Division. He was a member of the UniCredit Executive Management Committee. Upon stepping down from his executive role at UniCredit at the end of December 2014, he joined the bank’s international advisory board. In January 2015, Jean Pierre became a London based partner of Tikehau Capital, an investment management group, with specific focus and responsibility for Tikehau’s international expansion. On 30th June 2016 he was co-opted as member of the board of directors of UniCredit S.p.A., being thereafter appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer and General Manager effective 12th July 2016. On 1st July 2019, Jean Pierre became President of the European Banking Federation (EBF).

Patrick Honohan Honorary Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin; Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, formerly Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland
Patrick Honohan was Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from 2009-2015, and has returned to Trinity College Dublin, where he was appointed Professor in 2007. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously he was a Senior Adviser in the World Bank working on issues of financial policy reform. During the 1980s he was Economic Adviser to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) and spent several years at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin. A graduate of University College Dublin and of the London School of Economics, from which he received his PhD in 1978, Dr. Honohan has published widely on issues ranging from exchange rate regimes and purchasing-power parity, to migration, cost-benefit analysis and statistical methodology.

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Technical disclaimer

The online seminar will take place on the Adobe Connect platform. You can access the seminars from personal computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. You are strongly encouraged to read the technical requirements before registering for the online seminar. To ensure an optimal experience in terms of connection speed and video quality, we suggest to attend the seminar via a device connected to a stable network connection, avoiding if possible shared wi-fi or mobile connections.

The European University Institute will be hosting the 4th edition of the Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference, on 7-8 September 2020 in Florence, Italy.

The objective of DebtCon4 is to discuss state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on sovereign debt and related policy issues, and to foster interaction among academics, senior policymakers, supervisors, industry representatives and other practitioners.

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