The EACB (European Association of Co-operative Banks) is organising a debate on ‘Regulation and the need to re-launch local growth: the role of co-operative banks’, in close co-operation with the European Economic and Social Committee on the 4th of March 2014 in Brussels.
DEBATE TOPICS
- First assessments of the new financial services regulatory framework in Europe
- Latest thinking on further structural reforms and challenges to implement further stability measures
- How to balance regulation and growth?
- How to formulate simpler, more understandable and proportionate rules to ensure market diversity in the EU banking industry?
- Will co-operative banks distinguishing features (client/members relationship and local financing) be affected by the implementation of banking reforms?
SPEAKERS
Top level speakers from the EU Commission, European Parliament, European Economic and Social Committee, European Central Bank, European Banking Authority, European Central banks, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Co-operative Banks and Academics
Moderated by: Silvia Pavoni, Economic editor, The Banker magazine
PRACTICALITIES
Simultaneous translation to English, French, German and Italian
**Attendance by invitation only.**