The haute banque emerged as an elite or sub-category of private banks in France during the Restauration (1815 – 1830) and reached its climax in the 1850s and 1860s. These institutions were well respected and dealt with major international businesses which also had business with the State....

All papers related to the economics of energy and/or climate change are welcome, in particular: - Energy and development, - Evolution of power industry structure, - Innovation, - Renewables, - Climate policy, - The future of nuclear, - Customer engagement.

The workshop aims to bring together scholars, industry leaders and regulators to have an open-minded discussion about our current state of knowledge about alternative finance. Researchers are increasingly using new forms of granular data to do an exciting research about alternative credit and...

Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Hedge fund risks and performance; transparency (reporting) and due diligence; hedge fund activity and broad macroeconomic issues such as systemic risk and contagion; hedge fund activism; portfolio liquidation and liquidity; financial regulation;...

Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....

Achieving sales targets remains a key challenge for European banks. However, there have been some unprecedented developments within the financial services sector over the last year. These have led to a considerable change in customer, market and regulatory attitudes in relation to how banks sell...

The Ukrainian Banking Forum is a unique opportunity to meet with leading Ukrainian and international bankers, analysts and economists and banking regulators - all under one roof.

The 2010 Future of Cash Conference will address the following issues: - Ensuring the robustness of the cash cycle - Convergence of euro-zone cash cycles - Optimizing cash management - Re-engineering the cash cycle - Cash substitution

GECAMB 2010 is a Portuguese CSEAR (Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research) conference. Like in previous years, IPL’s School of Technology and Management, through the Centre of Investigation in Management for Sustainability (CIGS), promotes and welcomes this event which aims to...

This year’s conference will focus on the following topical aspects: - Traditional vs new distribution channels. Most insurance contracts are still distributed through traditional channels. But what is the future for new channels, such as direct insurance, which are increasing in popularity –...