SUERF BAFFI Bocconi e-Lecture

A New Vision for Europe’s Capital Markets - Presentation and Discussion of the Final Report of the High Level Forum on the CMU

Jun 29, 2020 16:00 - 17:15 CET (UTC+01:00)

Bringing about an EU Capital Market, i.e. a true single market for capital for everybody, remains a priority for those who want to make Europe stronger, resilient and dynamic. With Covid 19 it is now urgent in order to rebuild the European economy. A High Level Forum on the Capital Markets Union has brought together 28 experts from a wide spectrum of professional and national backgrounds to recommend an array of concrete measures to get us closer to one single market for savings, investments and raising capital for dynamic firms. This webinar brings together two leading proponents from the High Level Forum to present the main recommendations, a leading European Commission official to discuss and assess them, and a leading representative from the financial industry to moderate a lively discussion with the audience.

See the full report “A New Vision for Europe’s Capital Markets: Final Report of the High-Level Forum on the Capital Markets Union”. 

	Peter Praet chairs the HLF Subgroup on Capital Market Architecture. Mr Praet retired in June 2019 after an eight-year run on the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB), where he served as chief economist. Before joining the ECB, he was Executive Director of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique from 2000 to 2011. Between 2002 and 2011 he was also a member of the Management Committee of the Belgian Banking, Financial and Insurance Commission, where he was responsible for prudential policy for banking and insurance. Mr Praet has served on several high-level international bodies, including the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, the Committee on the Global Financial System and the European Banking Authority.
	David Wright joined Flint after over 34 years in the European Commission in Brussels. From 2000 to 2010 he was first Director, then Deputy Director General for financial services policy, where he played a leading role in the integration of European capital markets and the EU’s response to the financial crisis. He was the rapporteur on both the Lamfalussy and the De Larosière Committees which changed the EU’s institutional framework for financial services, setting up bodies such as the European Banking Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Systemic Risk Board at the European Central Bank. David is also the current Chairman of EUROFI, the European financial services think tank, a Public Interest Director of the Bombay Stock Exchange and a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
	John Berrigan is currently the Deputy Director General in DG FISMA (Directorate General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) of the European Commission. John has been a Commission official since the mid-1980s and has spent much of that time working on financial-sector issues first in DG ECFIN and now in DG FISMA. He has also worked on monetary policy and exchange-rate analysis in the context of preparations for the introduction of the euro in 1999. He was Commission Mission Chief for Portugal from July 2013 to November 2014 in the context of the recent economic assistance programme and has contributed to financial-sector aspects of the assistance programmes for other Member States. John has a master degree in economics from University College Dublin.
	Michala Marcussen assumed the role of SG’s Group Chief Economist in September 2017 and leads a team of over 30 economists and sector engineer’s in her role as Head of Economic and Sector Research in the Risk Division. She is a member of Société Générale’s Group Management Committee and has been with the SG Group since 1994. With over 30 years of experience in the financial industry, she is a frequent commentator in the economic debate. Michala Marcussen holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and is a CFA charterholder. Michala is also Vice President of SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum.

With friendly support of the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation, Bocconi University.