Capital Markets Union
Thursday 05 March 2015Panel 1 - Achieving long-term growth for Europe
Different players may have different roles to play in
channelling funds for long-term investments. Is it possible to
create a regulatory environment, which creates the best conditions
for each player to fill this role and at the same time preserve a
level playing field?
Discussion points
• What role will bank lending play in the future? Can
the local knowledge and ability to assess risk that retail banks
posses reach their full potential
while fulfilling the enhanced prudential
requirements? What role can EU banks play in more security based
lending?
• What role can institutional investors play? What role
can the new European Long Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) play?
• What role can capital market play in channelling
funds for long-term investments?
• What role can crowdfunding play in financing
long-term growth?
Panel 2 - An increased role for capital markets?
The newly appointed president of the European Commission
Jean-Claude Juncker has made a capital market union as one of his
priorities. How can this be achieved? Can well designed
regulation help capital markets raise funding for long-term
investments?
Discussion points
• How can EU capital markets be developed as to play a
bigger role in funding SMEs? How can capital markets better match
providers and users of
capital?
• How could the EU encourage SME listings? Are the
current rules such as the prospectus directive and the transparency
directive to burdensome
for SMEs? What relaxations or exemptions
could be made to lower the threshold for SMEs to become
listed?
• How can we encourage the development towards EU wide
institutional investments?
• How can the regulatory framework stimulate capital
markets to increase the focus on the long-term horizon?
• What should be the guiding principles of a Capital
Markets Union?
Speaker line-up
Philippe de Backer Member of the
European Parliament
Philip Tod Deputy Head of Unit C3 -
Securities Markets, DG FISMA, European Commission
Olivier Boutellis-Taft Chief Executive,
FEE – Federation of European Accountants
Philippe Maystadt Honorary President of
the European Investment Bank and Professor at the Universities of
Louvain-la-Neuve & Luxembourg
Judith Hardt Managing Director, Swiss
Finance Council
Mark Hutchinson Head of Alternative
Credit, M&G Investments
Dr Alexandra Hachmeister Head of
Regulatory Strategy, Deutsche Börse Group
European Parliament MEP
European Commission High-level
representative
Industry Representatives
NGOs
Academics
User-side Representative
Representatives from the EU Institutions (the European
Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European
Union including the member states’ permanent representations) as
well as accredited journalists participate free of charge.
For Academics and Representatives of NGOs (not representing a
commercial interest), there is a registration fee of €125 +
VAT.
For all other participants, there is a registration fee of
€185 + VAT.
Closing date for registration is 27 February 2015. Seats are
limited.