Lunchtime events

04.11.2011
11:00-13:00

ETFs and Structured UCITS under Discussion

Lunchtime events
CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies 1 Place du Congrès / Congresplein 1000 Brussels

"Investment banks can save funding costs by running synthetic exchange traded funds that use derivatives to track indices, according to the BIS.

06.09.2011
13:30-15:30

An Investigation into Stewardship: A debate on corporate governance reform in the European Union

Lunchtime events
CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies 1 Place du Congrès / Congresplein 1000 Brussels

The presentation of the external report ‘An Investigation into Stewardship’ gathered representatives from the capital markets, banks, accountancy organisations and international law firms.

25.05.2011
13:15-14:30

Does Europe need a different credit rating agency industry?

Lunchtime events
CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies 1 Place du Congrès / Congresplein 1000 Brussels

Overreliance on external ratings by investors has come under scrutiny since the crisis, where it emerged as a source of systemic risk –difficult to mitigate save by increasing transparency and encouraging own due diligence by investors.

15.03.2011
13:00-14:15

European Parliament Debriefing: Financial Transaction Tax

Lunchtime events
CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies 1 Place du Congrès / Congresplein 1000 Brussels

The introduction of an EU-wide tax on financial transactions is set to be a topic for discussion during the next months. In a non-legislative report on ‘innovative financing’ adopted in March by the EP, a wide majority asked for a tax on financial transactions of between 0,01 and 0,05% to be introduced in Europe.

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