Acting as stewards of the investments of millions of citizens worldwide, institutional investors increasingly take environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into account when making investments in portfolio firms. Nevertheless, the ultimate success of these investment strategies will...

The COVID pandemic is confronting many firms with existential liquidity and solvency threats. Governments and regulators have swiftly responded, among other things, with credit guarantees and moratoria. Measures have evolved from the first to the second wave of the pandemic. This workshop brings...

Cross-border trade in financial services is underdeveloped within the EU, and it meets numerous obstacles between non-EU countries and EU members like the US or Switzerland. International trade organizations like WTO have not achieved much progress in the area of financial services. With Brexit,...

This conference focuses on the core questions facing the insurance industry today, as the sector undergoes changes which will fundamentally transform the behaviour of providers, brokers and consumers alike. Looking at how digital disruption and innovation will impact insurance going forward,...

The conference deliberations will deal with the following themes: - Cash: inefficient, outdated and a facilitator of crime? - Cash: still used vastly, not at the heart of current low inflation rates and keeper of civil rights? - Central Bank Digital Money and e-Krona: the future?

Conference Programme: - Keynote Speech "Moving forward with macroprudential frameworks" Stijn Claessens, Head of Financial Stability Policy and Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, BIS; - Session I - Policy Interactions: Different points of view; - Session II - Macroprudential...

Bringing together leading policymakers, experts and practitioners form both sides of the Atlantic, the second SUERF conference offers the opportunity to debate globalisation and the international economic order from a transatlantic perspective. The conference will address the following key...

We welcome contributions on the following, non-exhaustive list: - What are the roles in the realm of shadow banking of different types of institutions, such as insurers, pension funds, plain vanilla mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, and real estate funds? - There have been recent performance...

Which are the new frontiers in the central banking? The aim of the workshop is to discuss two new fields, which explore the role of two different set of rules - monetary policy committees and new prudential responsibilities - in influencing the central banking decisions.

Modern economies need a functioning financial system. The financial system has in principle four main functions: Providing a system for making payments, matching borrowers and lenders, enable people to manage their personal finances across their lifetimes and between generations and the sharing...