Roundtables on scaling up of investment funds and consolidation of market infrastructure in the EU

Programme

1. 26 Sep 2024, 09:00 - 10:00 (CEST)

   Registration and coffee
2. 10:00 - 10:15 (CEST)

   Opening by Commission Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA)
3. 10:15 - 10:30 (CEST)

   Keynote speaker

   Nicolas Veron, Senior fellow at Bruegel and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC

4. 10:30 - 12:00 (CEST)

   Plenary debate

   Panellists:

   • Thomas Schindler, CFO, Allianz Global investors
   • Valerie Urbain, CEO, Euroclear
   • Giorgio Modica, CFO, Euronext group
   • Karolina Rzonca-Bajorek, CFO, Asseco Poland

   Moderator: Marcel Haag, Director for horizontal policies, DG FISMA

5. 12:00 - 12:15 (CEST)

   Conclusions by Marcel Haag, Director for horizontal policies, DG FISMA
6. 12:15 - 13:30 (CEST)

   Lunch break
7. 13:30 - 17:15 (CEST)

   Parallel break out session on trade/post-trade

   • 13:30 – 15:00 – Panel 1: A trading perspective on consolidation
     
     Panellists:

     • Alex Dalley, Head of CBOE Netherland
     • Alasdair Haynes, CEO Aquis
     • Helle Søby Thygesen, Secretary General, Capital Market Denmark, FIDA
     • Niels Brab, Head of group regulatory strategy, government relations & political affairs, chief regulatory officer, Deutsche Börse Group
     • David Gardner, Vice-President for corporate finance, Bolt
     • Olga Jordão, CEO Euronext Securities Porto and Head of business operations

     Moderator:

     • Tanya Panova, Head of Unit, Securities markets, DG FISMA
        
   • 15:00 – 15:30  – Coffee break 

   • 15:30 - 17.00 – Panel 2: Post-trading Speakers:
     
     Panellists:

     • Valerie Urbain, CEO, Euroclear
     • Ondřej Dusílek, Central Securities Depository Prague
     • Pierre Davoust, Euronext
     • Mario Muth, Head of Fixed Income, Deutsche Bank
     • Vikesh Patel, CEO, CBOE Clear

     Moderator:

     • Martin Merlin, Director for financial markets, DG FISMA
        
   • 17:00 – 17:15 – Concluding remarks by DG FISMA
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9. 13:30 - 17:15 (CEST)

   Parallel break out session on investment funds

   • 13:30 – 13:40 – Introduction by Martin Merlin, Director for financial markets, DG FISMA

   • 13:45 – 15:00 – Panel 1: Consolidation in investment funds
     
     Panellists:

     • Eric Bramoullé, Head of product and marketing and member of executive committee, Amundi
     • Nils Bolmstrand, CEO of Nordea Asset Management
     • Terri Dempsey, CEO State Street Fund Services (Ireland) and Ireland Country Head
     • Ronald Wuijster, CEO of APG Asset Management NV, a subsidiary of APG Groep NV

     Moderator:

     • Hélène Bussières, Head of Unit, Asset management, DG FISMA
        
   • 15:00 – 15:20 – Coffee break
      
   • 15:20 – 15:40 – Presentation: EU’s challenge to scale up risk capital delivered by Nathaniel Arnold, International Monetary Fund

   • 15:45 – 17:00 – Panel 2: Barriers to scaling-up risk capital
     
     Panellists: 

     • Rebecca Versteeg, member of KKR Impact investing team
     • Markus Pimpl, Managing Director at Partners Group
     • Stefan Haubner, Founding partner of APEX VC
     • Adam Niewinski, Co-founder and general partner, OTB ventures
     • Hugo Weber, Vice Presdent, Corporate Affairs & Impact, Mirakl

     Moderator:

     • Jan Ceyssens, Head of the Unit, Capital markets union, DG FISMA
        
   • 17:00 – 17:15 – Concluding remarks by DG FISMA

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