Migrants from Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and North Africa continue to make their home in Western Europe - but how well are their needs being met? Migrant banking in Europe offers a range of exciting opportunities for both financial and non-financial players. For instance, there is a small...

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 Future of cash conference brings together all stakeholders in the cash cycle - central banks, commercial banks, retailers, payment service providers, cash logistics companies, etc. with aim of providing a forum for the exchange of best practices and the further optimisation of the cash...

This year, therefore, the conference will focus on four key themes - New approaches to customer retention: an exploration of the effectiveness of the latest loyalty schemes; - New approaches to customer communication: engaging customers in real dialogue, using social networking sites and other...

The following topics are likely to be covered: • an introduction to recent research on exchange rates, in particular market microstructure models, behavioural finance models as well as the new ‘open economy’ macroeconomic paradigm; • reserve currency issues and aspects of foreign...

Topics likely to be covered include: • the objectives of monetary policy and optimal policy under commitment and discretion; • methods for estimating policy rules and objective functions; • forecasting with and without endogenous monetary policy; • modelling the zero lower bound on...

The Efma Congress is dedicated to multichannel management. This year’s Congress will have two special sessions: - New banks and banking models This session will include case studies presented by senior executives of new European banks, such as Metrobank, Zuno Bank and Alior Bank. We will also...

The seminar will focus on a wide range of financial stability issues. The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: • the enhanced role of the Bank of England in the UK framework for financial stability; • identification and assessment of key risks to financial...

This year’s conference will focus on a wide range of topics, including: - Reaping the rewards across converging channels: Learning valuable lessons from those who are developing new initiatives. - Fighting fraud: Managing increasingly complex security models. - Meeting SEPA migration...

The main issues discussed at this year’s event will include: - New strategies • Business models. Emerging business models to drive customer adoption across both mobile banking and payments. How to build the right applications and how to differentiate your proposition. • Partnerships. How...