TOPICS: - Credit risk and market risk - Bank financing of private equity and hedge funds - Securitization of bank loans - Regulation of hedge fund and private equity - Credit derivative markets and risk management - International prudential regulation and bank crisis management - Macroeconomic...

This conference will bring together experts in liquidity and researchers who analyze the underlying mechanisms that cause liquidity dislocations. The goal is to further the understanding of these mechanisms and to link them to current policy tools.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to pro-mote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

Topics: a) Integrated modelling and management of market and credit risk. b) Joint pricing and trading of market and credit risk. c) Potential implications of the integrated modelling and pricing of market and credit risk for bank behaviour and capital holding.

The distribution landscape for retail savings and investment products is undergoing a period of unprecedented change. Increased pricing transparency for products and services is affecting the business models of both providers and intermediaries, and the FSA's Retail Distribution Review promises...

The Council of Mortgage Lender's annual conference has become a must-attend event featuring inspirational conference speakers at the cutting edge of today's mortgage industry.

Topics: - information uncertainty and information combination (e.g. observation window, disaggregate information, role of judgement); - measurement uncertainty (e.g. real time analysis); - parameter and model uncertainty (e.g. forecast and model combination, forecast model selection).

Topics: - Market power and anticompetitive behavior, - Comparing and contrasting structural change in the U.S., the European Union and Asia, - Efficient scale, synergies and productive efficiency at financial institutions, - Supply of credit to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), - Market-based...

Objective and topics: The European banking sector and financial system have evolved greatly over the last decade. Fundamental changes include the adoption of new technology in the provision of banking services, disintermediation, financial liberalisation, the emergence of new financial...