The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

The Congress will cover the following hot topics: - How to tackle the aftermath of PSD2 - Why the Plug & Play philosophy is key in an open banking era - The need to shift from ego-systems to eco-systems to become more efficient - The new paradigm of digital transformation - The evolution of...

Digital transformation is no longer an option for banks that want to succeed and grow, and they cannot afford to wait while others move forward. It is now a vital requirement and has already been embraced by many other industries. If banks fall behind, they risk losing their competitive edge -...

Topics: - Quantification of the Impact of Reform - Short- vs. Long-Term Effects of Reform - Product and Labor Market Reform - Financial Sector Reform - EU Convergence and Reforms - Reforms and the Functioning of EMU - Distributional Consequences of Reform - Timing, Sequencing, and Clustering of...

The focus of the congress will be on five key issues around transformation: - What the new retail banking model needs to look like? - How will banks become more customer centric and develop superior customer experience management skills to match other industries? - How will banks successfully...

Each spring, thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society organizations, and invited participants from the academia and private sectors, gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. At the heart of the gathering are...

The objective of the conference is to verify and assess the process of the building of market economies in Europe after 25 years, including lessons learnt from transition and focusing on the challenges lying ahead. Conference panels: - The foundation: monetary and exchange rate policy - Bricks...

Banks have already made progress towards developing a distribution strategy in which different channels are closely integrated. However, true multichannel distribution is hard to achieve and requires significant long-term investment. But if banks do manage to achieve the ideal multidistribution...

The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty...