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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - SAVE THE DATE - 2 MAY 2017
Enforcement: Towards a Coherent European Approach for Financial Services Users
DATE: 2 May 2017
LOCATION: REPRESENTATION OF THE STATE OF HESSEN TO THE EU - RUE MONTOYER 21, 1000 BRUSSELS
Following the 2008 financial crisis a lot of new EU legislation saw the light. Now the time has come to focus on an effective implementation and enforcement of these new rules throughout the EU, and, in particular, of those impacting EU citizens as individual investors and financial services users.
This is why Better Finance has chosen to focus on the enforcement of EU rules governing financial services for the 2017 edition of its annual International Conference in Brussels.
DRAFT PROGRAMME - Enforcement: Towards a Coherent European Approach for Financial Services Users
- 14h30 – 15h00 Welcome Coffee & Registration
- 15h00 – 15h05 Welcome by Friedrich von Heusinger, Director of the Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU
Private Enforcement
- 15h05 – 15h10 Welcome by Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of Better Finance
- 15h10 – 15h30 Keynote Speech (TBD)
- 15h30 – 16h45 Panel on Collective Redress in the EU (Case-based: Volkswagen, Forex, Closet Indexing, Mortgage Loans, Pension Funds…):
- Moderator: Jella Benner-Heinacher, Deputy Managing Director, DSW
- Panellists: Christiane Hölz, Regional Manager NRW, DSW; ADICAE (TBD); Mag Eric Breiteneder, Attorney, Breiteneder (TBC); Patrick Haas, Lawyer, AKD Lawyers & Notaries (TBC)
- 16h45 – 17h00 Coffee Break
Public Enforcement
- 17h00 – 17h20 Keynote Speech : Vera Jourova, Commissioner for Justice , Consumers and Gender Equality (TBC)
- 17h20 – 18h35 Panel on enforcement of financial user protection rules:
- Moderator: Monique Goyens, Director General of BEUC
- Panelists: Andrea Enria, Chair of the European Banking Authority (TBC), Fausto Parente, Executive director of EIOPA, Steven Maijoor, Chair of the European Securities & Markets Authority, Gérard Rameix, Chair of AMF (France), Carmine Di Noia, CONSOB Commissionner (Italy) (TBC)
- 18h35 - 18h50 Closing Speech by Jean Berthon, President of Better Finance
- 18h50 – 19h30 Cocktail