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15 Sep — Big Issue debate: Financial systemic risk - the shockwaves continue What next?
Crisis demands fresh approach to risk
Financial crisis caused by risk failure at senior levels.
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 | 15 Sep — Extending the value for corporates
Enabling richer relationships
How can the SWIFT platform be leveraged to extend value to corporate customers?
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 | 15 Sep — Web 2.0: the collaborative landscape
Banking for the masses
The wisdom of crowds will drive banking innovation for the Wiki generation. Download report in PDF |
 | 15 Sep — What are the next milestones for High Value Payments market infrastructures?
15 Sep — Risk of interdependencies must be managed
Faced with flood, fire or earthquake interlinked high-value payment systems have to run no matter what. Download report in PDF |
 | 15 Sep — SWIFT plenary
Writing the next chapter for SWIFT
SWIFT chairman and CEO set out the achievements and challenges that have engaged the co-operative over the past year and the new areas on which SWIFT plans to focus. Download report in PDF |
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Tuesday 16 September 2008 |
The beginning of the end of the American century?
Is the erosion of confidence in the American model of financial market growth and regulatory oversight terminal?
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 | 16 Sep — Reforming financial markets: Are intervention and innovation uneasy bedfellows?
Interventionism wins the day
Short-term market participants need long-term structural intervention.
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 | 16 Sep — European Custodians & CSDs: adapt or perish?
The weakest link
Despite public and private initiatives to ease the pain of clearing and settlement in Europe local investor habits continue to dictate the pace of change.
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| 16 Sep — Corporates Forum
The case for mid-sized corporates
Positioning SWIFT as a cheap and simple option for mid-cap companies.
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 | 16 Sep — Standards Forum: Customers first in Standards
Standards must interoperate
SWIFT needs to be more open to working with, and adapting to, existing standards.
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 | 16 Sep — Payment Systems: how to monitor risk while improving liquidity and information flow
Keeping payments on track in the eye of the storm
Central banks focus on ensuring smooth processing of payment flows as both volumes and values continued to rise. |
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16 Sep — Payments at a tipping point – growth or terminal decline?
Non-bank payment providers pose real threat
Banks need to stay attuned and learn from non-bank competitors to maintain their position of dominance in payment services
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16 Sep — Low-value payments – do banks really need ACHs ?
Rethinking the ACH model
Surging volumes don’t justify an exchange model for FX trades.
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Wednesday 17 September 2008 |
17 Sep — Big Issue debate 3: What keeps CEOs awake at night?
Sleepless in Vienna
Nightmares on Wall St. may be keeping both CEOs and delegates awake this week but to avoid insomnia senior executives need to overcome the challenge of nurturing talent and managing risk across multiple business lines.
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 | 17 Sep — Corporate Social Responsibility
Social awareness
Is corporate social responsibility an obligation or an opportunity?
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 | 17 Sep — The battle for funds distribution
Competition hots up for funds distribution
How is the advent of distribution platforms affecting the funds landscape?
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 | 17 Sep — Consolidation or competition: What's right for Europe's securities market?
Settlement is no island The best execution provision of MiFID demands that investors be given access to the best price for execution; shouldn’t they expect the same for their clearing and settlement requirements?
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 | 17 Sep — Conquering the challenge of Standards co-existence
In the eye of the standards storm
SWIFT’s new MX messages will one day replace MTs, but dissent in some payments communities focuses on cost and the date of migration.
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 | 17 Sep — SEPA: Is there a pilot on board?
Too late to parachute
The pilot might have bailed, but SEPA flies on. Download report in PDF |
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17 Sep — How to break the FX bottleneck?
Volume versus value
Surging volumes don’t justify an exchange model for FX trades.
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17 Sep — Will regulation help or hinder the investment funds industry?
Low-touch regulation, not black letter rules
Regulation that fails to keep up could damage the funds market.
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17 Sep — All for one or one for all: do consortia initiatives work?
Consortia profit from changing times
Consortia work as a business model designed to maximise success in unusual and uncertain market conditions.
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Thursday 18 September 2008 |
18 Sep — Closing session
New era of transparency?
Information sharing among peer groups must be at the heart of a new approach to risk management.
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 | 18 Sep — Collateral management: past, present and future
Another fine mess
Inadequate systems and lax practice helped create a major problem. Will it happen again? Download report in PDF |
 | 18 Sep — Hedge Funds are the root of all evil
Speak no evil
Chatham House rules freed the proposers and opposers in yesterday’s debate, ‘Hedge funds are the root of all evil’, to pursue their arguments with considerable verve and wit, without any risk to reputation
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 | 18 Sep — The Asian Century - How will it change the global financial services industry?
A defining moment for Asia
Bright future predicted for Asia despite global adversity.
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18 Sep — Infrastructure 2.0
Securities processing moves upstream
Custodians must invest to keep up with client demands.
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18 Sep — New Financial Products – Are we running before we can walk?
CDOs on the rack
Structured investment products have been singled out as culprits of the current liquidity crisis.
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18 Sep — OTC RIP?
Clear case for OTC
OTC through a CCP? There’s more than one way to clear derivatives.
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18 Sep — Regulatory Burden: What can be done to increase cross-border co-ordination?
Ubiquitous, not universal
Local regulation offers inadequate protection against global risks.
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18 Sep — Securities lending activities are undermining shareholder voting rights and affecting the outcome of corporate events. Myth or fact?
Bridging the information gap
Lending and corporate governance – reducing conflict through information.
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18 Sep — Greening (y)our work world
Sibos plants seed for a sustainable business plan
How relevant is the ‘green agenda’ and the promotion of CSR to modern corporations?
Very it would seem, when it comes to promoting long-term business sustainability.
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18 Sep — Trading venues – opportunity or cost?
Will risk control or market forces drive consolidation?
Clear winners are yet to emerge from amongst Europe’s expanding universe of trading and clearing platforms.
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18 Sep — ‘In conversation with’ To compete or collaborate – that is the question
Why not leave it to the market?
The relative roles of shared initiatives and market forces in the creation of standards was among the issues raised in the Standards Forum’s last dialogue session.
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