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Minutes

Please click on any of the past meetings below to view a short review of the proceedings.

Bre Breaking Up The Banks: a round-table discussion with Prof. John Kay and Higo Dixon (Reuters Breakingviews).

The Crash of 2003: An EMU fairy tale revisited. A round-table discussion on where the CSFI got it right and wrong, with the author David Lascelles, Ruth Lea (Global Vision), Mats Persson (Open Europe) and Lord Haskins.

'Banking Banana Skins 2010'. A round-table discussion of the CSFI survey with David Lascelles, Thomas Huertas (FSA), Andrew Gray (PwC) and Charles Haswell (HSBC).

March 18, 2010 - Greece, the so-called PIGS, the eurozone and the mysteries of the universe. A round-table discussion on the Greek crisis with Vassilis Monastiriotis (LSE), Paul Mylonas (National Bank of Greece), Brian Coulton (Fitch), David Mackie (JP Morgan) and Mats Persson (Open Europe). 

March 16, 2010 - Counter-cyclical capital: building buffers against the next crisis. A round-table discussion with Charles Goodhart (LSE), Ian Mackintosh (ASB), Jesus Saurina (Banco de Espana) and Mark Rhys (Deloitte). 

Feb 16, 2010 - Tying it all together: A crash course in learning the lessons of financial and economic meltdown. A round-table discussion with Chris Martenson (chrismartenson.com) and Nicola Anderson (Bank of England). 

Feb 8, 2010 - Conflicts of interest in the FX market. A round-table discussion with Neil Record (Record Currency Management), Mark Tennant (JP Morgan Chase) and Ian Battye (Russell Investments).

Feb 4, 2010 - Is there a future in carbon trading? A round-table discussion with Abyd Karmali (Bank of America/Merrill Lynch), Guy Turner (New Energy Finance), Sam Fankhauser (London School of Economics/Globe International) and Larry Lohmann (The Corner House).

Jan 21, 2010 - The African Century. A round-table discussion on investment in Africa with Rod Evison (CDC), Ian Anderson (Gatsby Foundation), Rupert Boyd (Standard Bank) and Konrad Reuss (Standard & Poor's). 

Dec 11, 2009 - What the behavioural sciences can teach us about wholesale and retail financial markets. A round-table with Gulnur Muradoglu (Cass), Werner DeBondt (DePaul), William Forbes (Loughborough, Business School), Jose Manuel Varas (Cabot Financial) and Chris Clack (UCL).

Dec 7, 2009 - Encouraging saving in poor countries. A round-table discussion on innovation in savings. With Jane Platt (NS&I) and Bob Christen (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).

Nov 18, 2009 - Microfinance Banana Skins: A round-table discussion of the new CSFI survey.

Nov 23, 2009 - The social usefulness of derivatives. A round-table discussion with Anthony Belchambers (FOA), Paul Wilmott (Wilmott Associates) Richard Metcalfe (ISDA), Stewart Hodges (Cass Business School) and John Grout (ACT).  

Oct 29, 2009 - Non-bank sources of consumer credit: A round-table discussion with Stephen Sklaroff (FLA), Nigel Cates (Office of Fair Trading), and (TBC).

Feb 26, 2009 - Credit crunch litigation: A round-table discussion with Alexandra Carn and David Greene (Edwin Coe), Matthew Collings (Matrix Chambers) and Nick Carn (Odey Asset Management).  

Feb 25, 2009 - “How to stop the recession”.  A round-table with the author, Tim Congdon and David Miles (Morgan Stanley).  

Feb 24, 2009 - “The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency”. A round-table with the author, David Marsh and Denis MacShane (MP).  

Feb. 16, 2009 - Private client wealth management and the crisis: A round-table discussion with Mark Powell (Rathbones), John Williamson (EFGPrivate Bank), John Reed (Arbuthnot Latham), Lupus Maltzahn (Accenture) and Michael Read (Williams de Broe).

Feb. 10, 2009 - Global US and European proposals for financial stability: Coming together or growing apart? A round-table discussion with Barbara Matthews (BCM International Regulatory Analytics), Peter Vipond (ABI), and Simon Hills (BBA).

Feb. 9, 2009 - The biggest comeback of 2009: Government bond issuance. A round-table discussion with Robert Stheeman (DMO), Riccardo Barbieri (Bank of America), Meyrick Chapman (UBS), and David Oakley (FT).

Feb 5, 2009 - Counter-cyclical capital requirements, including dynamic provisioning. A round-table discussion with Clifford Smout (Deloitte), Jesus Saurina (Bank of Spain) and Sir John Gieve (Bank of England).  

Feb. 4, 2009 - Advisory Council meeting, chaired by John Plender (Financial Times)

Jan 28, 2009 - Brusselsfor breakfast (44) A breakfast discussion on European regulatory issues with Graham Bishop (grahambishop.com).

Jan. 28, 2009 - The macroeconomic impact of what governments are doing: Are Keynesians right? Or are the Friedmanites right?  

Jan. 22, 2009 - Payments in Europe : A round table discussion to establish a baseline view of the European payments world

Jan. 14, 2009 - US and UK financial crime regulation: Congruence or conflict?

Dec. 16, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast 43

Dec. 16, 2008 -  Corporate Governance and the Credit Crisis.

Dec. 4, 2008 - Private Equity

Dec. 3, 2008 - New mortgage products

Dec. 3, 2008 - 'Age of Aging'

Nov. 27, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast 42

Nov. 25, 2008 - IFRS and fair value accounting

Nov. 24, 2008 - The future of the housing market

Nov. 19, 2008 - Managing longevity for pension funds

Nov. 18, 2008 - Islamic Insurance: the Takaful concept

Nov. 17, 2008 - 'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'

Nov. 13, 2008 - Investing in Agriculture

November 3, 2008 - Revisiting Islamic Finance

October 28, 2008 - Short Selling

October 28, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast (41)

October 16, 2008 - Demographics of Pensions

October 13, 2008 - The US Housing Crisis

October 8, 2008 - Food Inflation

October 6, 2008 - Blue-skying Armageddon…Free-thinking about the current financial crisis

October 6, 2008 - Managing macroeconomic instability

October 1, 2008 - Film Finance

September 30, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast (40)

September 25, 2008 - Solvency 2

September 17, 2008 - CDC

September 15, 2008 - Why do analysts hate the insurance industry?

September 11, 2008 - In defence of America

September 9, 2008 - Public Sector Pensions

July 17, 2008 - Banking Banana Skins 

July 16, 2008 - The Crunch: The scandal of Northern Rock and the escalating credit crisis.’

July 16, 2008 - CEPS TF report on Basel II Implementation

July 15, 2008 - Legal Responses to the Credit Crisis

July 10, 2008 - Global Financial Regulation, The Essential Guide

July 10, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast (39)

July 3, 2008 - The Changing shape of insurance capital: barbarians at the gate, or Darwinian survival?

June 30, 2008 - How to value structured financial products: where the investment banks got it wrong?

June 26, 2008 -Advisory Council meeting  

June 26, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast (38)

June 12, 2008 - Individual Pensions

June 10, 2008 -PLUS Markets

June 2, 2008 - Mark to model

June 5, 2008 - London as a global city

May 27, 2008 - Dominoes in the credit crisis

May 22, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast (37)

May 21, 2008 - The Future of Securitisation

May 20, Blue - Skying the Banks

May 20, 2008 -  The future of company pension schemes

May 15, 2008 - Whistleblowing

May 14, 2008 - Pensions, a tour d’horizon:

May 7, 2008 - CFIUS

April 24, 2008 - Basel 2  & Liquidity

April 24, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast (36)

April 23, 2008 - Monolines

April 22, 2008 - Islamic Finance

April 16, 2008 - Rating Agencies

March 26, 2008 - Capital Gains Tax

March 20, 2008 - The Societe Generale Affair

March 19, 2008 - Fed Vs ECB

March 17, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast 35

March 5, 2008 - Banks too big to fail?

March 3, 2008 - Class Action Lawsuits

February 28, 2008 - The future of retail branch banking

February 26, 2008 - Regulatory reform in the UK: The policy response

February 21, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast 34

February 19, 2008 - The role of the tripartite arrangement

February 14, 2008 - The London Accord

February 12, 2008 - The ‘non-dom’ issue

February 4, 2008 - A tour d’horizon of Sovereign Wealth Funds

January 31, 2008 - Prospects for 2008

January 29, 2007 - Informal money transfers

January 23, 2008 - The UK mortgage market in 2008

January 17, 2008 - Brussels for Breakfast (33)

December 13, 2007 - "Plumbers and visionaries"

December 12, 2007 - Rethinking the Lamfalussy process

December 6, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (32)

December 3, 2007 - Oil markets

November 29, 2007 - Basel 2, insurance and the law of unexpected consequences

November 26, 2007 - The implications of potential Scottish independence

November 21, 2007 - Accounting standards

November 13, 2007 - Emissions trading

November 7, 2007 - The taxation of private equity

October 31, 2007 - Can the Chinese miracle persist?

October 30, 2007 - The EU Reform Treaty

October 29, 2007 - Web 2.0

October 24, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (31)

October 16, 2007 - "Plight of the fortune tellers"

October 11, 2007 - Making money from climate change

October 10, 2007 - The new Companies Act

October 4, 2007 - The changing face of film finance

October 3, 2007 - UK banking post-Northern Rock

October 2, 2007 - The Cyborg future

September 25, 2007 - "Insurance Banana Skins"

September 12, 2007 - Rationalisation of the business media

September 11, 2007 - Liquidity crisis? Credit crunch? Or just a speedbump on the highway of eternal prosperity? 

September 6, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (30)

September 5, 2007 - What a Tory mayor would mean for the City

July 10, 2007 - The death of the branch?

July 2, 2007 - The economic challenge facing Gordon Brown

June 26, 2007  - "Cracking the credit market code"

June 25, 2007 - Prospects for Internet advertising

June 21, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (29)

June 14, 2007 - Enhancing financial capability through the workplace

June 13, 2007 - Choice in the UK audit market

June 12, 2007 - Better data-sharing in the banking industry

May 24, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (28)

May 15, 2007 - Algorithmic Trading in 2010

May 14, 2007 - The Thornton Review of Pensions Institutions

May 3, 2007 - Demographics and finance

April 25, 2007 - The Italian banking and financial industry

April 25, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (27)

April 17, 2007 - Trusted Credentials in the Network Economy

April 12, 2007 - The challenges facing IFRS

April 4, 2007 - The Barclays/ABN Amro deal

March 27, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (26)

March 20, 2007 - Recent developments in mobile banking

March 12, 2007 - Climate change

March 8, 2007 - For-profit blogging

March 2, 2007 - Attacking Iran...An evaluation of the market impact

February 22, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (25)

February 19, 2007 - Financial Capability

February 13, 2007 - Insolvency

February 1, 2007 - The FSA's FRO

January 29, 2007 - Target 2 S

January 25, 2007 - Financial Inclusion

January 22, 2007 - Have traditional exchanges had their day?

January 18, 2007 - Implications of the EU’s Financial Collateral Directive

January 18, 2007 - Brussels for Breakfast (24)

January 15, 2007 - The future of commodity exchanges

December 13, 2006 - "Selling the City short?"

December 11, 2006 - The NAPF

December 7, 2006 - LogicaCMG

December 7, 2006 - Brussels for Breakfast (23)

November 29, 2006 - XBRL

November 22, 2006 - Pension fund trustees

November 20, 2006 - Alternative energy

November 17, 2006 - Brussels for Breakfast (22)

November 16, 2006 - Operational risk

November 15, 2006 - CESR

November 9, 2006 - Cisco II

May 8, 2006 - Private Equity (ll)

April 20, 2006 - Private Equity (I)

March 15, 2006 - Brussels for Breakfast (16)

March 14, 2006 - Spinning for the City

February 27, 2006 - The Operating & Financial Review

February 23, 2006 - The Retail Financial Services Forum

February 15, 2006 - Reconsidering population growth

February 15, 2006 - Brussels for Breakfast (15)

February 7, 2006 - Saving capitalism from the capitalists

February 2, 2006 - Lib Dems and the City

January 25, 2006 - Pensions A-Day

January 18, 2006 - Brussels for Breakfast (14)

January 17, 2006 - Carbon trading

December 13, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (13)

December 1, 2005 - Stretching the Oyster card

November 28, 2005 - Mobile microfinance

November 24, 2005 - The Initiative Finanzstandort Deutschland (IFD)

November 23, 2005 - The European bond market

November 16, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (12)

November 8, 2005 - The European ratings market

October 24, 2005 - The Pension Protection Fund

October 19, 2005 - Rolling back EU legislation

October 18, 2005 - In defence of finite reinsurance

October 11, 2005 - Bringing Hedge Funds to the consumer market

October 6, 2005 - Measuring reputational risk

September 26, 2005 - The pros and cons of Hedge Funds

September 21, 2005 - The mobileATM initiative

September 20, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (11)

September 19, 2005 - MiFID and the City

September 14, 2005 - Consumer understanding of risk

July 14, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (10)

July 13, 2005 - "Rebalancing UK and European legislation"

July 12, 2005 - What next for the City? Howard Flight on the Labour Government

July 4, 2005 - Pensions at a glance: Public policies across OECD countries

June 30, 2005 - "National Pastime": The business of sport

June 22, 2005 - "An Absence of Regulatory Design?" Bond legislation

June 22, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (9)

June 16, 2005 - “Would you credit it?” The way forward for credit unions

June 13, 2005 - "Not waving but drowning": The consumer credit problem

June 9, 2005 - Identity management: 21st century plumbing for banks

June 6, 2005 - "The greed merchants": The investment banking industry

May 25, 2005 - The work of the Financial Reporting Council

May 23, 2005 - S&P's analysis of the UK's defined benefit pension problem

May 23, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (8)

May 17, 2005 - How does the City handle Brussels?

May 16, 2005 - A tour d'horizon of the European Internet banking scene

May 12, 2005 - "Surviving the 'dogfood years': Solutions to the pensions crisis"

April 26, 2005 - The FSA’s role in the fight against financial crime

April 21, 2005 - Revision of the JMLSG's anti-money laundering rules

April 20, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (7).

April 12, 2005 - Inky-fingered techies and the gentleman bankers: Are there still two cultures?

March 23, 2005 - Brussels for Breakfast (6)

March 17, 2005 - "Banana Skins 2005" (Sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers)

March 16, 2005 - "EU Financial Regulation and Supervision beyond 2005"

March 8, 2005 - Current thinking on catastrophe risk

March 7, 2005 - The pensions dilemma (with Tim Congdon)

February 10, 2005 - The magic of Lex

 

 

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