Events

The Task Force on commodities price formation held its third meeting on market structure issues of raw materials and base metals physical and derivatives markets, and in particular for copper, aluminium and iron ore.

After a very successful start last month, this second meeting of the ECMI-CEPS task force on commodities price formation focused on energy commodities.

Defining 'complexity’ for retail financial products should be done with reference to the ability of investors to understand their risk-return patte

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

The 2011 ECMI Annual Conference brought together the best of academia, industry and policy making, to discuss the challenges for global asset.

In this introductory meeting, participants will discuss the guidelines and the scope of the Task Force, and discuss trading practices, financialisation, competition and market structure in energy commodities markets, specifically on crude oil and liquified natural gas.

Task force members met to discuss the contribution of asset management to the economy, where the final report of this task force will seek to put forward concrete proposals.

This conference is organized by City & Financial in association with the European Capital Markets Institute in (ECMI), which task force has just launched its report on MiFID II (MiFID 2.0: Casting New Light on Europe's Capital Markets).

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.