- ECB seminar
Regulation of financial services in the EU: surveillance – resilience – transparency
Meeting room CIV, 2nd floor of the Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse 29,
Frankfurt am Main, 20-21 October 2011
Thursday, 20 October 2011
| 8:15-9:00 | Registration of participants |
| 09:00-09:30 | Welcome speech: introduction and overview of the seminar Mr A. Sáinz de Vicuña, Director General of DG Legal Services, ECB |
| 09:30-12:15 | (1) Legal aspects of the EU supervisory reform Chair: Mr Niall Lenihan, Assistant General Counsel, DG Legal Services, ECB |
| 09:30-10:15 | European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS): key legal issues Mr René Smits, Jean Monnet Professor of the Law of Economic and Monetary Union, Amsterdam Univeristy presentation |
| 10:15-10:45 | Questions |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:45 | Macroprudential oversight: legal aspects of the new public function Mr Giuseppe Napoletano, Principal Legal Counsel in the European Systemic Risk Board, presentation |
| 11:45-12:15 | Closing discussion for the first session |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-17:15 | (2) Crisis management and prevention Chair: Ms Eva Hüpkes, Co-Chair of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Adviser to the Financial Stability Board |
| 14:00-14:45 | Proposed EU crisis resolution framework for the financial sector Mr Marek Svoboda, Senior Legal Counsel, Financial Law Division, ECB, presentation |
| 14:45-15:30 | State aid compliance in the financial sector: a post-crisis framework Mr Leo Flynn, Member of Legal Service, Commission, presentation Background documents: 2008-10-25 Banking Communication 2009-01-15 Recapitalisation Communication 2009-03-26 Impaired Assets Communication 2009-08-19 Restructuring Communication 2010-04-30 CSWD Guarantee post-July 2010 2010-12-07 Extension Communication 2011-09-20 Banking Cases Overview CSWD Guarantee post-July 2011 |
| 15:30-16:00 | Questions |
| 16:00-16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15-16:45 | Proposed EU Short Selling Regulation: how much regulatory intervention in the financial markets? Mr Daniel Głuch, Legal Counsel, Financial Law Division, ECB, presentation |
| 16:45-17:15 | Closing discussion for the second session |
| 20:00 | Dinner (ECB restaurant, 2nd floor of the Eurotower) Keynote speaker: Mr Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business, Duke University, speech |
Friday, 21 October 2011
| 09:00-11:30 | (3) Banking regulation Chair: Mr Frank Elderson, Executive Director, De Nederlandsche Bank |
| 09:00-10:00 | From Basel II to Basel III: rules for a resilient banking sector Mr Dominique Thienpont, Deputy Head of Unit Banks and financial conglomerates, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission, presentation |
| 10:00-10:30 | Towards an EU ‘single rulebook’: the case of the banking sector Mr Stéphane Kerjean, Principal Legal Counsel, Financial Law Division, ECB, presentation |
| 10:30-11:00 | Deposit guarantee schemes: directions of the reform Mr Konrad Szeląg, Policy Co-ordinator, DG Internal Market and Services, Commission, presentation |
| 11:00-11:30 | Questions |
| 11:30-13:00 | Can regulation prevent systemic risk? Panel discussion: Mr Frank Elderson (chair) Ms Joyce Hansen, Deputy General Counsel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, presentation Mr Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business, Duke University Mr Bernhard Speyer, Head of Banking, Policy and Sector Analysis, Deutsche Bank |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-17:15 | (4) Regulation of securities markets and infrastructures Chair: Ms Petra Senkovic, Head of the Financial Law Division, Directorate-General Legal Services, ECB |
| 14:30-15:00 | Proposed Securities Law Directive and UNIDROIT work on netting principles: harmonisation of securities holding and transfers Mr Klaus Löber, Head of Oversight Division, ECB, presentation |
| 15:00-15:30 | EU market infrastructure regulations: clearing and settlement comes into regulatory purview Ms Katja Würtz, Principal Legal Counsel, Financial Law Division, ECB, presentation |
| 15:30-16:00 | Questions |
| 16:00-16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15-16:45 | EU regulatory framework for credit rating agencies: a preliminary assessment Mr Alessio M. Pacces, Associate Professor of Law and Economics, Rotterdam Institute for Law and Economics, Erasmus School of Law, presentation |
| 16:45-17:15 | Closing discussion for the fourth session |
| 17:15 | Closing words Mr A. Sáinz de Vicuña |