TOPICS: - Credit risk and market risk - Bank financing of private equity and hedge funds - Securitization of bank loans - Regulation of hedge fund and private equity - Credit derivative markets and risk management - International prudential regulation and bank crisis management - Macroeconomic...

This conference will bring together experts in liquidity and researchers who analyze the underlying mechanisms that cause liquidity dislocations. The goal is to further the understanding of these mechanisms and to link them to current policy tools.

Topics: a) Integrated modelling and management of market and credit risk. b) Joint pricing and trading of market and credit risk. c) Potential implications of the integrated modelling and pricing of market and credit risk for bank behaviour and capital holding.

The distribution landscape for retail savings and investment products is undergoing a period of unprecedented change. Increased pricing transparency for products and services is affecting the business models of both providers and intermediaries, and the FSA's Retail Distribution Review promises...

The Council of Mortgage Lender's annual conference has become a must-attend event featuring inspirational conference speakers at the cutting edge of today's mortgage industry.

Topics: - Market power and anticompetitive behavior, - Comparing and contrasting structural change in the U.S., the European Union and Asia, - Efficient scale, synergies and productive efficiency at financial institutions, - Supply of credit to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), - Market-based...

Objective and topics: The European banking sector and financial system have evolved greatly over the last decade. Fundamental changes include the adoption of new technology in the provision of banking services, disintermediation, financial liberalisation, the emergence of new financial...

In the past decade, Fondation Banque de France's Journées have been an annual event featuring the outcome of previous research grants. This year's harvest includes three papers on the systematic variations in expected loss and liquidity, the impact of securitization on bank lending and the cost...

Topics: - focusing specifically on the types of financial products and services sold online - analysing the basis of their online offering - should they be content to reproduce existing services or should they use their online offering to innovate, by devising products for sale specifically...