Online seminars
The Florence School of Banking and Finance organises regularly online seminars. Attendance is free of charge; the seminars are accessible from personal computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Sustainability Challenges and Opportunities for Banks, Central Banks and Investors
Date: Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:15 CET
Chair: Thorsten Beck (The Business School (formerly Cass) and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Axel Weber (Chairman, UBS), Belén Romana (Non Executive Director, Santander, Aviva and SIX Group.) tbc, Luiz Pereira da Silva (Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements)
This Online Seminar is part of the Challenges for Bank Board Members series in the framework of new FBF Bank Board Academy for Non-Executive Directors.
PAST ONLINE SEMINARS
The European Banking Sector: Preparing for Consolidation?
Date: Thursday, 8 April 2021
Time: 13:00 – 14:15 CET
Chair: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University)
Speakers: Andreas Dombret (Columbia University, former Member of the Board of Deutsche Bundesbank); Dominique Laboureix (French Prudential Supervisory Authority – Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution – ACPR); Luigi de Vecchi (Chairman EMEA Banking – Capital Markets & Advisory Citi)
This Online Seminar is part of the Challenges for Bank Board Members series in the framework of new FBF Bank Board Academy for Non-Executive Directors.
Private Equity & Markets in the COVID context
Date: Thursday, 25 March 2021
Time: 13:00 – 14:00 CET
Chair: Thorsten Beck (The Business School (formerly Cass) and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Helmut Kraemer-Eis (Chief Economist, European Investment Fund), Sophie Manigart (Professor, Vlerick Business School)
Low-interest Rates for long: the Impact on Bank Profitability and Risk Appetite
Date: Thursday, 18 March 2021
Time: 13:00 – 14:15 CET
Chair: Thorsten Beck (The Business School (formerly Cass) and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Vítor Constâncio (Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Former Vice President European Central Bank),Julie Galbo (Board Member, DNB Bank ASA), Thomas Vlassopoulos (Head of Monetary Analysis Division, European Central Bank)
This Online Seminar is part of the Challenges for Bank Board Members series in the framework of new FBF Bank Board Academy for Non-Executive Directors.
Green(ish) Bonds?
Date: Thursday, 25 February 2021
Time: 13:00 – 14:00 CET
Chair and moderator: Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speaker: Gianfranco Gianfrate (EDHEC Business School)
Commentator: Justine Leigh-Bell (Climate Bonds Initiative)
Fit and Proper Assessment: Better Boards for Better Banks?
A conversation with Edouard Fernandez-Bollo, ECB Representative in the Supervisory Board.
Date: Friday, 19 February 2021
Time: 13:00 – 14:00 CET
Chair: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University)
Speakers: Edouard Fernandez-Bollo (Member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank), Hans-Helmut Kotz, (non-executive Member of the Board of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon and Resident Fellow at Harvard), Laragh Cassar, APS Bank Malta
This Online Seminar is part of the Challenges for Bank Board Members series in the framework of new FBF Bank Board Academy for Non-Executive Directors.
Big Tech and Fintech credit
Date: Thursday, 28 January 2021
Chair and Moderator: Thorsten Beck (The Business School (formerly Cass) and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Jon Frost (Bank for International Settlements); Philippe Paech (London School of Economics); Loriana Pelizzon (SAFE/Goethe University)
Credit Risk after Covid
Date: Thursday, 21 January 2021
Chair: Thorsten Beck (The Business School (formerly Cass) and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: José Manuel Campa (Chairperson, European Banking Authority); Klara Jandova (Partner, Oliver Wyman); Francesca Tondi Guy (Non Executive Director, UniCredit group)
This Online Seminar is part of the Challenges for Bank Board Members series in the framework of new FBF Bank Board Academy for Non-Executive Directors.
Governance and Oversight: Lessons from Wirecard
Date: Thursday, 17 December 2020
Chair: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University)
Speaker: James Freis (Former CEO, Wirecard)
This Online Seminar is part of the Challenges for Bank Board Members series in the framework of new FBF Bank Board Academy for Non-Executive Directors.
Bank Boards and Supervisory Expectations
Date: Thursday, 03 December 2020
Chair: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University)
Speaker: Elizabeth McCaul (Supervisory Board member, ECB)
Commentator:Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (Chairman, Société Générale)
This Online Seminar is part of the Challenges for Bank Board Members series in the framework of new FBF Bank Board Academy for Non-Executive Directors.
Securitisation in Europe – which way forward?
Date: Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Time: 13:00 – 14:00 CET
Chair and Moderator: Jean-Jacques van Helten (Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Patrizia Canziani(Structured Finance Professional), Bertrand Chavasse (BNP Paribas), Bart Joosen (VU Amsterdam), Pablo Portugal (Association for Financial Markets in Europe – AFME).
Non-Performing Loans (NPLs): A Critical Stock-Take
Date: Thursday, 29 October 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Nicoletta Mascher (European Stability Mechanism), Charles-Antoine Dozin (Morgan Stanley), Nicolas Véron (Peterson Institute for International Economics and Bruegel)
CCP Recovery and Resolution: insights beyond the end of the waterfall
Date: 1 October 2020
Chair: Thorsten V. Koeppl (Queen’s University)
Speakers: Marc Peters (European Commission); Ron Berndsen (Tilburg University)
Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on the insurance and occupational pensions sectors in Europe
Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speaker: Gabriel Bernardino, (Chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
Commentators: Roel Beetsma (University of Amsterdam); Giuseppe Corvino (Bocconi University)
Sovereign Debt in the European Union
Webinar part of Distributed Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference — D-DebtCon
Date: 08 September 2021
Speakers: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré (Paris School of Economics and French Treasury), Marco Buti (European Commission) – , Elena Carletti (Bocconi University), Flavia Corneli (Bank of Italy), Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge), Pablo de Ramón-Laca Clausen (Spanish Treasury), Ramon Marimon (Pierre Werner Chair, EUI), Isabelle Mateos y Lago (BlackRock), George Papaconstantinou (School of Transnational Governance, EUI), Jean Pisani-Ferry (Tommaso Padoa Schioppa Chair, EUI and Sciences Po), Rolf Strauch (European Stability Mechanism), Dominik Thaler (Bank of Spain), Luis Rojas(Research Fellow, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
The EU Recovery Package and What’s Next
Date: Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Chair: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Vidal, (Chief Economic Advisor of Charles Michel, President of the European Council)
Consolidation in the EU Banking Sector
Date: Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Edouard Fernandez-Bollo (ECB Supervisory Board); Diego De Giorgi (Independent Director, Unicredit; former Global Head of Global Investment Banking, Bank of America Merril Lynch); Andreas Dombret (Columbia University, former Member of the Board of Deutsche Bundesbank)
Assessing the Preliminary Impact of COVID-19 on the EU Banking Sector
Date: Thursday, 2 July 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speaker: Mario Quagliariello (European Banking Authority)
Commentators: Véronique Ormezzano (BNP Paribas); Til Schuermann (Oliver Wyman); Nicolas Véron (Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Bruegel)
Restraining Dividends (and other Pay-Outs)
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Chair: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speaker: Francesco Mazzaferro (ESRB)
Commentators: Viral V. Acharya (New York University Stern School of Business); Jan-Pieter Krahnen (Goethe University, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and CEPR); Sylvie Mathérat (Independent member of the EU commission High Level Forum on Capital Market Union)
The French-German COVID-19 Recovery Plan
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Jörg Kukies (State Secretary, German Ministry of Finance), Odile Renaud-Basso (Director General of the French Treasury)
ECB Policies in COVID-19 Times
Date: Wednesday, 10 June 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Isabel Schnabel (Member of the ECB’s Executive Board), Jean-Pierre Mustier (President of the European Banking Federation, CEO Unicredit), 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)
Credit Ratings and the COVID-19 crisis
Date: Thursday, 4 June 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Stephen Hynes (ESMA); Gwenael Pover (ESMA)
Discussants: Colin Ellis (Moody’s); Richard Portes (London Business School)
SSM supervisory measures in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: Thursday, 28 May 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Edouard Fernandez-Bollo (ECB Supervisory Board), Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School), Til Schuerman (Oliver Wyman)
Online debate: Which (feasible) new Reconstruction Instrument(s) does Europe need?
An initiative of the EUI Pierre Werner Chair, jointly organised with the Florence School of Banking and Finance and the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair.
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Marco Buti (European Commission); Luis Garicano (Member of the European Parliament and Professor of Economics and Innovation, IE Business School – on leave); Ramon Marimon (Pierre Werner Chair); Jean Pisani-Ferry (Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair)
Online debate: Rationale and Limitations of ‘SURE’
Jointly organised with Bruegel
Date: Friday, 15 May 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Roel Beetsma (University of Amsterdam); Grégory Claeys (Bruegel); Gilles Mourre (DG ECFIN, European Commission)
Online debate - SME Financing in the COVID-19 Context
Joint online seminar Florence School of Banking and Finance – Oliver Wyman Forum
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Introduction by: James Bryan (Oliver Wyman)
Speakers: Christian Ossig (Association of German Banks); José María Roldán (Spanish Banking Association); Frédéric Visnovsky (Banque de France and ACPR)
Online debate – Europe’s Banking System: Fast Forward Six Months
Joint online seminar Florence School of Banking and Finance – Oliver Wyman Forum
Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Andrea Federico (Oliver Wyman); Michala Marcussen (Société Générale); Erik Nielsen (Unicredit); Jörg Zeuner (Union Investment)
Online debate – A Fiscal Response to COVID-19: What are the Options?
Date: Friday, 10 April 2020
Moderator: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and Florence School of Banking and Finance, European University Institute)
Speakers: Vitor Constâncio (Lisbon School of Economics and Management); Clemens Fuest (ifo Institute, University of Munich); Jean Pisani-Ferry (European University Institute and SciencesPo); Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University)
State Aid in the context of COVID-19
Date: Friday, 3 April 2020
Speaker: Ramona Ianus (European Commission)
Bank-Fintech collaboration and outsourcing arrangements: The case for a mentorship regime
Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Speakers: Luca Enriques (University of Oxford); Georg Ringe (University of Hamburg)
Commentator: Anna Maria Nowak (EUI)
Financial Stability in Times of Epidemics - Online lecture
Date: Thursday, 26 March 2020
Speaker: Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam))
Valuation in Resolution
Date: Thursday, 12 March 2020
Speakers: Boštjan Jazbec (SRB); Jose Carlos Molina Franquelo (SRB)
Commentator: Anna Gardella (EBA)
Emergency Liquidity Assistance in the Eurosystem
Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
Speaker: Christos Gortsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Commentator: Vítor Constâncio (former Vice-President of the European Central Bank)
A European Perspective on Securitisation - Online debate
Date: Monday, 10 February 2020
Speakers: Bart Joosen (VU University Amsterdam and Recofise), Simon Broxham (Duver Consulting), Richard Hopkin (AFME).
Three turning points in the growth of the AML architecture
Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Speaker: Peter Alldridge (Queen Mary University of London)
Commentator: Nikita Divissenko (European University Institute)
Low interest rates: a licence to accumulate (public) debt?
Date: Thursday, 9 January 2020
Speaker: Daniel Gros (CEPS)
Liquidity Stress Testing for Investment Funds
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Speaker: Christian Winkler (ESMA)
What is the bank business model today?
Date: Monday, 18 November 2019
Speakers: Xavier Vives (IESE Business School), Elena Carletti (FBF and Bocconi University), Stijn Claessens (BIS), Antonio Fatás (INSEAD)
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Lessons for central banking from the euro area crisis
Date: Monday, 4 November 2019
Speaker: Patrick Honohan (Trinity College Dublin and Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Commentators: George Papaconstantinou (School of Transnational Governance, EUI); Maria Ana Barata (Department of Law, EUI)
Artificial Intelligence and Systemic Risk
Date: Thursday, 24 October 2019
Speaker: Jón Daníelsson (Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics)
Fighting the next financial crisis
Date: Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Speaker: Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management)
Commentator: Loriana Pelizzon (SAFE Goethe University Frankfurt and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
The Investment Bank of the Future: Trends in Technology and Innovation
Date: Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Speakers: Shabdeep Mann, Tom Fish (PwC)
Financial Stability and Insurance Markets
Date: Tuesday, 3 September 2019
Speakers: Francesco Mazzaferro (ESRB), Dimitris Zafeiris (EIOPA)
The Digitalization of Money
Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2019
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Landau (Harvard Kennedy School and SciencesPo)
The EU Banking Package
Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Speakers: Marie Donnay, Tommy De Temmerman, Audrius Pranckevicius (DG FISMA, European Commission)
The Economy of Risk in Insurance
Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Speaker: Michel Dacorogna (University of Zürich and Prime Re Solutions). Commentator: Dimitris Zafeiris (EIOPA)
Central Counterparty Clearing and Systemic Risk
Date: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Speaker: Thorsten Koeppl (Queen’s University)
Decrypting Sustainable Finance
Joint online seminar Florence School of Banking and Finance – Florence School of Regulation
Date: Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Speakers: Dirk Schoenmaker (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University), Kinanya Pijl (European University Institute), Jean-Michel Glachant (Florence School of Regulation, EUI)
Stress Testing in Europe: A Primer
Date: Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Speakers: Mario Quagliariello (European Banking Authority) and Klaus Düllmann (Single Supervisory Mechanism, European Central Bank)
Liquidity and Resolution
Date: Friday, 8 February 2019
Speakers: Dominique Laboureix (Single Resolution Board), Mike Hesketh (European Stability Mechanism), moderated by Patrick Honohan (Peterson Institute for International Economics and Trinity College Dublin)
Debt Sustainability Analysis in Normal and Crisis Times
Date: Thursday, 17 January 2019
Speakers: Cinzia Alcidi (Senior Research Fellow and Head of Economic Policy Unit, CEPS) and Daniel Gros (Director, CEPS)
Banking on Bail-in
Date: Thursday, 25 October 2018
Speakers: Wilson Ervin (Vice Chairman, Credit Suisse NY); Patrick Honohan (Honorary Professor of Economics at TCD, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics); Stefano Cappiello (FBF)
Sustainable finance: rationale and building blocks
Date: Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Speakers: Ugo Bassi (European Commission, DG FISMA); Juri Mara (European Commission, DG FISMA)
The SSM approach to tackling NPLs: progress made and challenges ahead
Date: Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Speakers: Ignazio Angeloni (Member of the ECB Supervisory Board), Sharon Finn (Adviser, ECB), Anne Fröhling (Head of Section, SSM), Giuseppe Siani (Deputy Director General of Microprudential Supervision IV, ECB)
Sovereign-bond backed securities (SBBS): from Theory to Practice
Date: 22 June 2018
Speakers: Peter Grasmann and Davide Lombardo (DG FISMA, European Commission)
Bank Lending in the age of Digital Disruption
Date: 22 May 2018
Speakers: Jean Dermine (INSEAD) and Giacomo Calzolari (University of Bologna)
The Road to a European Monetary Fund
Date: 2 May 2018
Speakers: Rolf Strauch (European Stability Mechanism) and Marcello Messori (LUISS Guido Carli University)
Risk Reduction in the Banking Union: NPLs and Sovereign Debt Concentration
Date: 17 April 2018
Speakers: Daniel Gros (Director, CEPS) and Willem Pieter De Groen (Research Fellow and Head of Financial Markets and Institutions Unit, CEPS )
A FRENCH-GERMAN VISION ON EURO AREA REFORM
Date: 15 February 2018
Speakers: Henrik Enderlein (Hertie School of Governance; Jacques Delors Institute); Jean Pisani-Ferry (EUI; Bruegel; Hertie School of Governance; Sciences Po); Jeromin Zettelmeyer (Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Venezuela’s ‘Hunger’ Bonds
Date: 25 January 2018
Speakers: Mitu Gulati (Professor of Law at Duke University), Jeromin Zettelmeyer (Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics)
The Future of the Banking Union
Date: 10 November 2017
Speakers: Mario Nava (Director, Financial System Surveillance and Crisis Management, DG FISMA, European Commission), Giulia Bertezzolo (Policy officer), Markus Aspegren (Economist), Davide Lombardo (Senior Economist)
Resolution Planning in Practice
Date: 4 October 2017
Speakers: Mauro Grande (Member of the Single Resolution Board); Sophie Steins Bisschop (Single Resolution Board, Directorate for Resolution Strategy, Processes and Methodology)
Ending Too-Big-to-Fail: a Transatlantic Perspective
Date: 21 September 2017
Speakers: Wilson Ervin (Vice Chairman, Credit Suisse NY); Patrick Honohan (Honorary Professor of Economics at TCD; Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics)
To Fail or Not to Fail?
Date: 5 July 2017
Speakers: Christos Gortsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens); Seraina Grünewald (University of Zurich)
The Future of CoCos
Date: 1 March 2017
Speakers: Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam); Simon Gleeson (Clifford Chance, London)
Lost in TLAC
Date: 18 January 2017
Speaker: Tobias Tröger (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
After Brexit: what next for the EMU, UK and the EU?
Date: 1 July 2016
Speakers: Joaquín Almunia (former European Commission); Ramon Marimon (EUI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Giorgio Monti (EUI); Morten Ravn (University College London)
Contingent Convertible Debt Instruments: regulatory use and market development
Date: 16 March 2016
Speaker: Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam)
Learning from the Euro Crisis in Order to Avoid New Ones
Date: 14 March 2016
Speakers: Ramon Marimon (EUI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Thomas F. Cooley (Stern School of Business, NYU); Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge University); Lucrezia Reichlin (London Business School); René Smits (University of Amsterdam)
Capital and Bail in Debt Buffers: Loss Absorption vs Risk Incentives
Date: 9 March 2016
Speaker: Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam)
The Rise of Fiscal Europe? Negotiating Europe’s New Economic Governance
Date: 15 September 2015
Speakers: Brigid Laffan (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies); Pierre Schlosser (Scientific Coordinator, FBF)
Discussing the Greek Crisis: is debt relief inevitable?
Date: 24 July 2015
Speakers: Evi Pappa (EUI); Christos Hadjiemmanuil (University of Piraeus); Thomas Cooley (Stern School of Business, NYU); Ramon Marimon (EUI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra)