The Private Banking CEE 2008 conference is THE premier annual meeting place for European private banks, wealth managers and the global product providers. It is the definitive CEO level strategic event where ideas, intelligence and relationships really make a difference.

The symposium will be part of the NCEIS Conference. Islamic banking, investment, finance and insurance are new forms of financial transactions based on: profit-sharing; avoiding interest; equitable risk-sharing in lending contracts; avoiding financing unethical activities; and avoiding...

Themenschwerpunkte: - Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Trends - Steuerstandort Schweiz - Trusts, Stiftungen und Portfoliogesellschaften - Offshore- und Onshore-Standorte im Vergleich

We welcome empirical and theoretical papers dealing with all aspects of retail payments, in particular the following issues: • Pricing and use of payment services • Efficient pricing of payment services • Substitution among payment instruments, including cash • Pricing in two-sided...

The November 2008 Carnegie-Rochester conference seeks to advance the theoretical and empirical understanding of the causes and consequences of the "credit crunch of 2007-8" with a view to assessing the extent to which monetary, banking, and regulatory policies may have helped to create the...

The goal of this one-day conference is to enhance the interaction among researchers interested in financial intermediation. The conference will consist of five to seven papers; submissions in all areas of financial intermediation will be considered (except papers already accepted for publication).

The subject of the conference is "Macro-Financial Linkages." Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): (1) the role of finance in transmitting and amplifying real shocks, including international spillovers; (2) the financial sector as a source of (international) disturbances,...

Key topics: - The potential for Factoring in the significantly growing CEE Market - Achieving excellence in product and services - What does Cross-border Factoring look like? - Setting up a Cross-border Subsidiary – a complex task - Powerful Risk Management strategies and effective credit risk...

The conference will be divided into four sessions: 1. Sources of productivity 2. The role of information technology in driving productivity 3. Regulation and its relationship with productivity 4. ‘Best practices’ as a business strategy for improving productivity

Following last year's successful event in London, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Marketforce are excited to bring you the sixth annual The Future of Consumer Finance this autumn. Speakers at last year's event tackled many issues that have since gone on to dominate newspaper headlines and...