Educational Seminar

📅 5th December 2024 

🕔 From 16:00 to 18:00 (Registration and Welcome coffee from 15:45)

 Followed by Christmas Drinks

📍 European Parliament

Presenters:

• Rosa Armesto, Director General, FESE
• Jacqueline Mills, Head of Advocacy, AFME
• Vincent Ingham, Director, EFAMA
• Nicolas Jeanmart, Head of personal & general insurance, Insurance Europe

Agenda:

This EPFSF educational seminar aims to provide those assisting decision-makers with a comprehensive understanding of the capital markets, highlighting their history and role in economic development, the mechanisms of listing and trading, and the various investor groups. It will also offer insights into future directions for EU policy in capital markets. Participants will have an opportunity for interactive discussion with expert presenters.

The session aims at covering topics such as:

• Capital markets
  • Role and history: Capital markets as pivotal for the economy, bringing together companies and investors, facilitating capital formation and price discovery, comparison with bank financing, capital allocation (sustainability and other factors)
  • Financial instruments: Shares, bonds, currencies, commodities, and derivatives
  • EU dimension and the global perspective: Statistics on listed companies, market capitalisation, debt and derivatives markets (KPIs, global comparisons)
• Listing, trading, and post-trading:
  • Primary markets: Equity, debt, and fund listings
  • Trading venues: Regulated markets, multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), and systematic internalisers (SIs), funding and price formation
  • CCPs and CSDs: Central counterparties (CCPs), clearing and netting, Central securities depositories (CSDs) and the move to T+1
• The investors
  • Who invests: Split between retail, institutional investors
  • How and why they invest:
    • Retail: Behavioural tendencies, financial education, spare amount to invest, pension pillars, etc
    • Institutional: Banks, insurers, pension funds, fund managers
• Capital Markets – brief overview of input to next Commissions workplan (Noyer, ESMA, Letta, Draghi etc)

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation on financing Europe’s future. We look forward to welcoming you!

For more information contact us at secretariat@epfsf.org