Forum Agenda/Notes

10 December 2008



Agenda:

European Finance Forum

Wednesday, 10 December, 10.00 – 13.00 hours

 

Venue: Room ASP A3H-1, European Parliament, Brussels

 

 

 

Credit Rating Agencies / Priorities of the Czech Presidency

 

The proposal introduces a registration system and may prevent CRAs from offering consulting services in addition to ratings when this may lead to conflicts of interest. Furthermore, rating agencies will become subject to surveillance of the securities supervisors, will have to reform their internal governance structure, and will need to disclose the models, methodologies and key assumptions on which they base their ratings.

 

 

Speakers:

 

Jean Paul Gauzes

MEP, Rapporteur for the ECON Committee

 

Dr. Wolf Klinz

MEP, Shadow Rapporteur for ALDE Group, ECON Committee

 

Maria Velentza

European Commission, Head of Unit – Securities Markets

 

Christopher Lake

Senior European Regulatory Counsel, Standard & Poor’s

 

Michel Madelain

Chief Operating Officer, Moody’s


Sona Machova

Attaché, Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic Representation

 

Zdenek Hustak

Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Finance, Czech Republic


 Graham Bishop Staff:

Graham Bishop

 

Stefan Brill

 

Jacques Lafitte  

 

Participants:

Uta Wassmuth                     

EBF

Peter Rieger

Unicredit group

Nathalie Aubry                     

ICMA

Antoine Kremer            

ABBL

Pierre Gilles

ABBL

Robin Jezek                          

City Office Brussels

Penny Naas

Citigroup

Edward Bowles

Standard Chartered Bank

Monica Monaco

VISA

Veronique Cerneau

ECON

Nick Collier

Morgan Stanley

Marcus Schueler

Markit

Hugh Savill

ABI

James Packer

FSA

Dominique Graber

BNP   Paribas

Caitriona O’Kelly

ING

Stéphane Janin

AFG

Zuzana Vavrova

ECON

Laura Whiskerd

Unicreditgroup

Mark Aruliah                       

Perm. Rep. UK

Cristina Sofia Dias              

Perm. Rep. Portugal

Francisco Barros Castro            

Perm. Rep. Portugal

Markus Metschitzer

Perm. Rep. Austria

Franco Bettin

Perm. Rep. Germany

Apologies:

Valerie Bros

Perm. Rep. France

Chris Verhaegen

EFRP

Hans Hack

Perm. Rep. Netherlands

Mark Bezemer

Netherlands Min. Fin.

Anique Huizinga

Netherlands Min. Fin.

Anne Pouchous

Credit Agricole

Antonio Garcia del Riego

Banco Santander

We would like to thank all the people that spoke and attended.