Financial Market Infrastructure

• Examine the current market infrastructure and its evolution, including critical Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) and their interdependencies.
• Evaluate best practices in FMI operations and risk management.
• Identify the sources of FMI regulatory requirements and understand the role of global standards.
• Understand innovative approaches such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Decentralised Finance (DeFi), and assess their potential impact on trading, clearing, and settlement arrangements.
• Assess the role of new types of service providers (both financial and non-financial) and services (e.g., 24/7 operations, real-time clearing and settlement, integration of trading, clearing, and settlement).
• Analyse the challenges facing the existing market structure and incumbent FMIs.
• Compare different regulatory approaches to innovation in FMIs.
• Explore issues that may affect efficient regulation and supervision (e.g., regulatory perimeter, activity-based regulation, absence of identifiable operators, etc.).

The course is targeted towards professionals working with the regulatory and supervisory/oversight framework of Financial Markets Infrastructure. This comprises central bankers, regulators, legal experts in private practice and academics interested in the regulation of financial entities and financial markets.  The ideal participant has some experience in the area and is at the mid career level. Young professionals that are at the start of their careers in this area can also attend. 

FULL FEES applicable from 1 July onwards*:

€ 950 – Academics
€ 1900 – Public sector
€ 2100 – Private sector

*Please note that the payment must be settled one week before the start of the course.

The fee includes tuition, access to all course materials and pedagogic activities, coffee and lunch breaks and social activities, as well as a certificate of attendance after the course has been completed. The fee does not include travel and accommodation expenses or other local transportation costs (taxis, private cars).

Please submit a certificate attesting your status of Professor, PhD Student or Research Associate to fbf@eui.eu before registering. FBF secretariat will provide you with a code to register. Seats for academics are limited.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT (-10%), applicable until 30 June COB:

Participants are eligible for the below early bird discount if they register and pay by 30 June 2025. Please note that those who wish to pay a reduced fee for academics must send proof of academic status to fbf@eui.eu in order to verify their eligibility.

€ 855 – Early bird academic*/ € 950 full fee (from 1 July)
€ 1710 – Early bird public sector / € 1900 full fee (from 1 July)
€ 1890 – Early bird private sector / € 2100 full fee (from 1 July)

GROUP DISCOUNT (-15%) for minimum 3 participants from the same institution:

A group discount is available for institutions registering three or more participants. To qualify, the names of all participants must be submitted together in a single email to FBF. Please note that this offer cannot be applied retroactively to individual registrations completed at different times. Those wishing to take advantage of the group discount must write an email to fbf@eui.eu, stating the full names of the proposed participants.

€ 807,5 – Group discount academic
€ 1615 – Group discount public sector
€ 1785 – Group discount private sector

CANCELLATION POLICY

Paid registration fee is non-refundable. However, registrant substitution may be made up to 15 days before the start date of the course by contacting fbf@eui.eu.