Events

Invited by MEP Kay Swinburne, ECMI researchers met a group of MEPs during lunch at the European Parliament in Strasbourg to discuss informally ongoing regulatory reforms affecting market structure and investor protection.

Presented by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Capital Markets Institute.

Fresh perspectives open for asset managers as Europe seeks to reduce its historic reliance on banking and promote capital markets.

Task force members met for the last time before the launch of the final report later in 2012 to kick-start the drafting process. After having held

Eurozone sovereign bond markets are in the eye of the storm. High borrowing costs and a fragmented sovereign issuances in Europe may be overcome in the future if fiscal consolidation and structural reforms deliver economic growth and greater integration by filling gaps in competitiveness among member states.

The task force on commodities price formation held its sixth and last meeting on market and regulatory issues on 10 February 2012.

The MiFID Conference by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) will look at the recent MiFID proposals, providing a forum where banks, investment companies and others who will be impacted by the revisions can discuss the possible implications of the reforms.

ECMI had the pleasure to contribute as knowledge partner and moderate this conference organised by QED. MiFID, the centrepiece of the legislation governing the EU's financial markets is currently undergoing a major review.

On 20 January 2012, leading commodity experts met again in Brussels to discuss on this occasion agricultural commodities —and in particular the role of market infrastructure in allowing greater market access to small producers in the last decade.