Conference program: Panel 1: Lessons being learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis; Panel 2: Climate change risk in financial markets; Panel 3: A changing clearing landscape.

Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The aim of the workshop is to exchange views and share experiences related to the emerging concept of macroprudential stance, i.e. the approaches used by policymakers to formulate the macroprudential actions they take to achieve financial stability. The focus will be on the European Union and...

Conference Program: Session 1: Financial disintermediation and the role of monetary policy and financial regulation, Session 2: FinTech and the future of the banking sector, Policy panel on Capital Markets Union. Participation in this conference is open to all SUERF Members: Personal Members and...

Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

The programme will include policy and academic sessions on the following themes: - Payment choice and global payments - Retail payments in a digital era - faster, cheaper, easier? - User experience, behaviour and trust in retail payments - Innovators, regulators and the competition-cooperation...

In reply to the financial crisis, "Great Recession" and sovereign debt crisis, many central banks have pursued ultra-easy and far reaching unconventional monetary policies for several years. Yields on various bond calsses - including euro area sovereign bond yields since the sovereign debt...

A short workshop is being held in Vienna on the morning of 11 December 2014 in Vienna to tie in with the 2nd SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Research Prize on the subject of "Reregulation of the financial sector – economic consequences, costs and benefits". The workshop will feature...