External events
The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) is delighted to announce the launch of the FESE de la Vega Prize 2018. The Prize will award an outstanding research paper related to the securities markets in Europe. Papers about current developments in European securities markets are particularly welcome. The paper may refer to any of the following topics:
The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) is delighted to announce the launch of the Josseph de la Vega Prize 2017. The Prize will award an outstanding research paper related to the securities markets in Europe. Papers about current developments in European securities markets are particularly welcome.
Building on the success of our inaugural scene-setting Capital Markets Union Summit last May, this event is the first in a series of ECMU implementation events which we plan to hold every six months over the next two years, with the programme in each case focusing on those initiatives that are current at that point (e.g. on recently launched consultation or discussion papers and legislative proposals).
Neither the CSFI (a London-based think-tank) nor CEPS has an institutional position for or against Brexit – although the CSFI did publish a survey of City opinion in 2015, which found that 73% of respondents would either 'definitely' or 'probably' vote for the UK to remain part of the EU in the event of a referendum. (That said, virtually no one who was surveyed had anything good to say about the EU: it was simply a question of preferring the devil you know to the devil you don’t know).
This workshop is part of a series of four half-day workshops that are being held over two days – the first two on 2nd June and the other two on 7th July. This series of workshops builds on the demand from delegates at our highly successful and well-attended MiFID conference, which was held on 27th January this year, for a series of highly focused, specialist events.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Risk and Governance Initiative (GRGI) will be hosting Professor Anjan Thakor, John E. Simon Professor of Finance and PhD Program Director at the Washington University in St. Louis Olin School of Business, to discuss these issues, as outlined in the recent report International Financial Markets: A Diverse System is the Key to Commerce.