Lisbon Virtual Seminar
14, 15 & 16 April 2021Lisbon
14, 15 & 16 April 2021The April 2021 Eurofi High Level Seminar, organized virtually in association with the Portuguese EU Presidency, gathered more than 200 speakers and 1000 participants from the public authorities and the financial industry.
Many essential issues for the future of the EU economy and its financial sector were tackled during the 3 days of the Seminar, including: the responses to the Covid crisis, financial stability and global fragmentation challenges, on-going improvements to the banking and insurance frameworks, the next steps for delivering the CMU, the recently proposed Digital Finance Package and new developments regarding ESG and sustainable finance.
Programme
08h45
09h00
09h00
Opening Remarks
COVID & BREXIT CHALLENGES
09h00
09h15
09h15
Speech Mario Centeno: Achieving a broad-based recovery in the EU post-Covid
COVID & BREXIT CHALLENGES
09h15
09h30
09h30
Is normalizing EU monetary policy feasible? If so how and when?
COVID & BREXIT CHALLENGES
09h35
10h30
10h30
What are the EU’s major financial risks in the current monetary and macro-economic context?
COVID & BREXIT CHALLENGES
10h35
11h30
11h30
Challenges for the EU banking sector in the Covid context
COVID & BREXIT CHALLENGES
11h30
11h55
11h55
Redesigning EU AML policy
COVID & BREXIT CHALLENGES
12h00
13h00
13h00
Nearly 4 months after Brexit: where do we stand and what way forward for the EU and UK?
COVID & BREXIT CHALLENGES
13h25
13h45
13h45
Exchange of views with Ana Botín
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
13h45
14h45
14h45
Policy priorities for the EU banking sector
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
14h50
15h45
15h45
Improving the EU bank crisis management framework for the Banking Union
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
14h50
15h30
15h30
Key issues in the insurance sector at the global level
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
15h35
16h45
16h45
Solvency II review: key issues
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
15h50
16h45
16h45
Implementing the EU sustainable finance taxonomy
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
17h00
17h55
17h55
Main stakes and challenges related to current EU retail payment initiatives
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
Climate-risk implications for the EU financial sector
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
18h00
18h05
18h05
Introductory remarks by Anne Finucane on global ESG standards
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
18h05
18h55
18h55
Cross-border payments global roadmap
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
18h05
19h00
19h00
Prospects for global and EU ESG standards converging
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
18h55
19h05
19h05
Exchange of views with Bernard Mensah
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
19h05
20h00
20h00
Global financial fragmentation: can progress be made?
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
20h00
20h15
20h15
Concluding remarks by Sir Jon Cunliffe
ESG AND FINANCIAL POLICIES
08h40
09h45
09h45
09h50
10h50
10h50
Developing retail investment
CMU 2.0
11h05
12h00
12h00
12h05
13h00
13h00
13h00
13h15
13h15
Speech by Ashley Alder
CMU 2.0
13h30
13h45
13h45
Speech by Mairead McGuinness
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
13h45
14h40
14h40
Digital Finance Strategy: is the EU proposal up to the challenges?
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
14h45
15h40
15h40
EU consolidated tape and Single Access Point: what benefits, feasibility and way forward?
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
EU financial data space and cloud infrastructure: is the EU moving in the right direction?
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
15h45
16h40
16h40
Is the current EU financial regulatory and supervisory framework fit for the digital age?
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
Developing equity funding: what is really needed and what can be achieved?
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
16h50
17h05
17h05
Speech by Elisa Ferreira: Reforms and investment needs for the European recovery
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
17h05
17h20
17h20
Speech by Pablo Hernández de Cos
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
17h20
17h40
17h40
Exchange of views with Jean Lemierre
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
18h00
18h25
18h25
Exchange of views with Klaus Regling & Tuomas Saarenheimo
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
18h25
18h40
18h40
Speech by Valdis Dombrovskis
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
18h45
19h00
19h00
Speech by Werner Hoyer
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
19h00
20h00
20h00
EU Recovery package implementation: issues, key success factors
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
20h00
20h15
20h15
Keynote speech by Minister João Leão
DIGITALISATION AND GROWTH
08h20
08h40
08h40
Speech by Pierre Gramegna
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE EU
08h45
09h15
09h15
Speeches by François Villeroy de Galhau and Klaas Knot
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE EU
09h20
10h30
10h30
What priorities to foster investment in the EU given high indebtedness and lasting low interest rate
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE EU
10h35
11h40
11h40
How should Basel banking standards evolve now?
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE EU
11h40
12h40
12h40
Crypto-assets and stablecoins: prospects and way forward
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE EU
12h45
13h00
13h00
Closing speech by Andrej Sircelj: The major strategic post-Covid priorities
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE EU
Speakers
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Summary
Lisbon Virtual Seminar - April 2021
Detailed summaries of the 30 panel discussions that took place during the Lisbon Seminar and transcripts of the speeches and exchanges of views
Magazine
Lisbon Virtual Seminar - April 2021
More than 160 contributions from a wide range of public and private sector representatives on post-Covid recovery, on-going financial policy initiatives and digitalisation policies
Regulatory Update
Lisbon Virtual Seminar - April 2021
Policy notes drafted by the Eurofi secretariat on post-Covid responses, EU banking and capital market framework, ESG and digitalisation policies