Recent Developments in European Banking and Financial Services Law 2011
01/12/2011
Objective
European financial regulation is at a crossroads: a raft of new EU legislation is now or will soon come into force and the Member States should adopt implementing measures. This seminar will provide legal practitioners with an in-depth analysis of the latest developments in banking and securities legislation as well as upcoming challenges for securities supervision and regulation.
Key topics
§ Current legislative developments in banking and securities legislation.
§ The role of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), its powers and functions and how it interacts with other authorities both at EU and national level.
§ Key legislative changes to securities regulation, in particular the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the Transparency Directive and the UCITS Directive.
Scholarship
The German Bundesbank has generously offered to sponsor the participation at this conference of one legal practitioner from the new and future EU Member States in Central and Eastern Europe. Please click here for more information.
Conference organiser: ERA (Antonio Rodríguez-Gimeno)
Areas of Law:Banking and Financial Services Law, Competition Law, Insurance Law
Language: English
Register here
Speakers:
Professor Kern Alexander, Professor of Law and Finance, University of Zürich
Jan Ceyssens, Legal Officer, Asset Management Unit, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission, Brussels
Professor Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor of Commercial and Company Law, University of Luxembourg
Joëlle Martiny, Deputy Head of Department, General Supervision, Luxembourg Financial Supervisory Authority (CSSF), Luxembourg
Claude Niedner, Partner, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg
Dr Stefan Pankoke, Deputy Head of Division, International Policy, German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Frankfurt
Pedro Teixeira, Counsellor to the Executive Board, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Enrique Velázquez, Senior Adviser, Financial Markets and Global Banking Issues, European Banking Federation, Brussels
For more information, please visit our website at www.era.int
European financial regulation is at a crossroads: a raft of new EU legislation is now or will soon come into force and the Member States should adopt implementing measures. This seminar will provide legal practitioners with an in-depth analysis of the latest developments in banking and securities legislation as well as upcoming challenges for securities supervision and regulation.
Key topics
§ Current legislative developments in banking and securities legislation.
§ The role of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), its powers and functions and how it interacts with other authorities both at EU and national level.
§ Key legislative changes to securities regulation, in particular the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the Transparency Directive and the UCITS Directive.
Scholarship
The German Bundesbank has generously offered to sponsor the participation at this conference of one legal practitioner from the new and future EU Member States in Central and Eastern Europe. Please click here for more information.
Conference organiser: ERA (Antonio Rodríguez-Gimeno)
Areas of Law:Banking and Financial Services Law, Competition Law, Insurance Law
Language: English
Register here
Speakers:
Professor Kern Alexander, Professor of Law and Finance, University of Zürich
Jan Ceyssens, Legal Officer, Asset Management Unit, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission, Brussels
Professor Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor of Commercial and Company Law, University of Luxembourg
Joëlle Martiny, Deputy Head of Department, General Supervision, Luxembourg Financial Supervisory Authority (CSSF), Luxembourg
Claude Niedner, Partner, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg
Dr Stefan Pankoke, Deputy Head of Division, International Policy, German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Frankfurt
Pedro Teixeira, Counsellor to the Executive Board, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Enrique Velázquez, Senior Adviser, Financial Markets and Global Banking Issues, European Banking Federation, Brussels
For more information, please visit our website at www.era.int