INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - SAVE THE DATE - 2 MAY 2017

Enforcement: Towards a Coherent European Approach for Financial Services Users

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DATE: 2 May 2017
LOCATION: REPRESENTATION OF THE STATE OF HESSEN TO THE EU - RUE MONTOYER 21, 1000 BRUSSELS

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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

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