18 March 2016 - College of Europe - Dijver 9 – 11, Bruges

Seventh Bruges European Business Conference

Programme:

08.45: Registration and coffee.

09.20 - 09.45: Welcome address by Professor Phedon Nicolaides (Director of the European Economic Studies Department, College of Europe)

09.45 - 10.15: Keynote speech: CMU: Where do we stand? Where are we going?

   By Lord Jonathan Hill (EU Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

10.15 - 11.15: How to achieve deeper financial integration?

Chair: Prof. Christian de Boissieu (College of Europe)

Speakers:

Verena Ross (Executive Director, ESMA)

Diego Valiante (Head of Financial Markets and Institutions Unit, CEPS)

Niall Bohan (Head of Unit CMU, DG FISMA, EU Commission)

11.15 - 11.30: Break

11.30 - 12.50: Improving SME access to financing: What do they need?

Chair: Richard Doherty (Global Lead Client Partner for EU Institutions, Deloitte)

Speakers:

Gert Wehinger (Senior Economist, OECD)

Helmut Kraemer-Eis (Head of Research, European Investment Fund)

Sachin Patel (Global co-head of Capital Markets, Funding Circle)

Antonio Garcia del Riego (Head of Corporate Affairs in the EU, Santander Bank) (TBC)

12.50 - 14.15: Lunch

14.15 - 14.45: Keynote speech: Addressing SME needs: EIB products

 By Jonathan Taylor (Vice-President, EIB)

14.45 - 16.05: Panel I: Equity financing for SMEs: How to combine traditional means with new funding sources (e.g. crowdfunding)?

Chair: Ernesto Lanzillo (partner, Deloitte, Italian Family Business Leader)

Discussants:

Marta Testi (Head of Corporate Advisors, London Stock Exchange Group)

Luigi Amati (CEO and Co-Founder, META)

Korstiaan Zandvliet (CEO and Co-Founder, Symbid)

Andrea Beltramello (Policy Officer Capital Markets Union Unit, DG FISMA, EU Commission)

16.05 - 16.20: Break

16.20 - 17.20: Panel II: Who regulates, how to integrate without excluding and how to take into account UK concerns?

Chair: Phedon Nicolaides (College of Europe)

Discussants:

Nicolas Veron (Senior Fellow, Bruegel; Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics)

Johannes Lindner (Head of the Division EU institutions and fora, ECB)

Jean-Pierre Casey (Head of Investment Solutions, UK & Luxembourg, PMB, Edmond de Rothschild)

Raoul Ruparel (Co-Director, Open Europe)

17.20 - 18.40: Concluding remarks & after conference drinks