XVIth International Banking Congress JUNE 6-9, 2007
"Banks: Capitalization, Soundness, Competitiveness"
PROGRAMME

Day 1, Wednesday, June 6, 2007
8.00 - 20.00 Arrival, registration and accommodation of the Congress participants at Pribaltiyskaya Hotel
9.00 - 11.00 Breakfast
11.00 - 14.00 Bus Excursion: "The silver century of Russian architecture", with a visit to Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts at the Industrial Arts Academy (Baron A.L.Stiglitz School)
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 15.30 Press Conference (Petrodvorets Hall, Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
15.30 - 18.30 Excursion "Masterpieces of Art in the Hermitage Museum collection"
19.00 A Ballet Concert at State Academic Mariinsky Theatre
23.00 Dinner
Day 2, Thursday, June 7, 2007
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
9.00 - 18.00 Plenary session
PLENARY SESSION (Leningrad Hall, Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
09.00 - 10.20 Official opening of Congress. In memory of Andrey Kozlov.

Valentina Matvienko - Governor of Saint-Petersburg

Ilya Klebanov - Presidential Envoy in North-West Federal District

Sergey Ignatiev - Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Moscow

Alexey Kudrin - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the National Banking Council, Moscow

10.20 - 10.40    Topical issues of the Russian banking sector capitalization, soundness and competitiveness - Gennady Melikian, First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow
10.40 - 10.55    Bank capital, international cooperation and financial stability - Josef Tosovsky, Chairman of the Financial Stability Institute, the Bank for International Settlements, Basel
10.55 - 11.10    Russian banking system: factors of the effectiveness growth - Andrey Donskikh, Chairman of the Board, Bank URALSIB, Moscow
11.10 - 11.25    Deposit Insurance System as a factor for banking system soundness - Alexander Turbanov, General Director, State Corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency", Moscow
11.25 - 11.40    Paradoxes of the banking supervision philosophy - Pavel Medvedev, First Vice-Chairman, Committee for Credit Institutions and Financial Markets, State Duma, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
11.40 - 11.55    Financial stability in China - Su Ning, Deputy Governor, The People's Bank of China, Beijing
11.55 - 12.05    Problems of the financial intermediation - Tigran Sarkisian, Chairman, Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan
12.05 - 12.20    Russian banking system development: banks and society - Anatoly Aksakov, Deputy of the State Duma, Member of the National Banking Council, President of Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
12.20 - 12.35    Availability of bank services. Problems and methods of their solution - Gennady Mescheryakov, President-Chairman of the Board, Svyaz-Bank, Moscow
12.35 - 13.00    Coffee break
13.00 - 13.15    "Bankization" in Russia: ways and forms of implementation - Garegin Tosunian, President, Association of Russian Banks, Moscow
13.15 - 13.25    On the mergers and acquisitions in Russian banks - Sergey Bazhanov, President, International Bank of Saint-Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg
13.25 - 13.40    Presentation of TACIS Project "Transition to IFRS in the banking sector" - Richard Gregson, Partner, Audit and Consulting services to Financial Institutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
13.40 - 13.50    Upgrading of the Russian banks capitalization by participation of foreign investors in the share capital - Volker Undorf, Member of the Board of Directors, Petersburg Social Commercial Bank, Saint-Petersburg
13.50 - 14.05    Factors for a higher competitiveness of banks - Alexander Murychev, First Executive Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Council, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
14.05 - 14.20    Methods for a higher competitiveness of banks - Oleg Danilin, Head of Global Financial Services and Treasury Advisory, Ernst & Young, Moscow
14.20 - 14.35    Critical importance of the transition of the banking sector and economy of the Russian Federation to IFRS for strengthening of the international geopolitical position of Russia - Elizaveta Filippova, Partner, Audit and Consulting Services to Financial Institutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, Moscow
14.35 - 14.45    A motivated judgement - myths and realities - Natalya Nikolaeva, Director for Government Affairs and Acting Officer for Public Affairs, Citibank, Moscow
14.45 - 15.00    The strategic direction of the Russian banking system - Andrew Spindler, President&CEO, Financial Services Volunteer Corps, New York, USA
15.00 - 15.40    Lunch
15.40 - 15.55    Transborder money transfer. Basic trends - Nikolay Gusman, President - Chairman of the Board, Russlavbank, Moscow
15.55 - 16.10    Collective programmes for a higher competitiveness of Russian banks - Alexander Khandruev, First Vice-President, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
16.10 - 16.25    Money transfer as one of the most developed segments of the financial sector - Suren Ayrian, President, Bank "Unistream", Moscow
16.25 - 16.40    Risk enabled value based bank management - experience and best practice from the EU market place - Robert Wagner, Managing Director, BearingPoint
16.40 - 16.55    Russian banking retail market: trends, competitiveness and prospects - Eugeny Bernshtam, President, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Home Credit and Finance Bank, Moscow
16.55 - 17.10    Up-to-date IT-solution - a luxury or a must? - Alexander Gentsis, Senior Vice-President, Director for Business Development, Member of the Board of Directors, Diasoft Company, Moscow
17.10 - 17.25    Construct and operate of cash centers for commercial banks - Heinz Kochbeck, Marketing & Sales Department, Giesecke&Devrient, Munich
19.00 Visit to Peterhof Palace and Gardens (Yekaterininsky Building, Monplaisir Palace, Bath - House), concert, informal dinner, fireworks
24.00 Panorama of night city and the Neva river bridges drawn apart
Day 3, Friday, June 8, 2007
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
9.00 - 14.00 Workshops
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee-break
Workshop sessions:
Workshop 1. Banks Capitalization: Goals and their Achievement.
Park Inn Pribaltyiskaya Hotel, Petrodvorets Hall

Co-Chairmen:
Gennady Melikian - First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Anatoly Aksakov - Deputy of the State Duma, Member of the National Banking Council, President of Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
Garegin Tosunian - President, Association of Russian Banks, Moscow
  • Implementation of Basel Accord Requirements: experience of other countries - Monica Mars, Director, Global Risk Management Solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Netherlands
  • Practical experience of IPO in Russian banks - Elena Muzyka, Deputy Director, Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Capitalization of Russian banks: topical problems and prospects as seen by an international rating agency - Ekaterina Trofimova, Deputy Director for Financial Institutions, Standard&Poors
  • Practical aspects of the capital adequacy assessment in terms of the credit institutions inspections - Yury Sokolov, Deputy Head, Main Inspection of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Basel II implementation in Russia: issues and solutions - Elena Krutova, Head of the Division, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • A choice between IPO and private placement - Anton Tabakh, Senior Analyst for Financial Sector, Financial corporation "URALSIB", Moscow
  • Problem of selecting the ways for the Russian banking system capitalization - Vyatcheslav Karpunin - Executive Director, National Fund for Assets Management, Moscow
  • Problems and prospects of banks activity in the regional markets - Nikolay Pecheliev, Head of the Division, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Government policy in the banking sector development - Alexander Lobanov, Head of the Main Board of Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis, National Bank of Belarus Republic, Minsk
  • Basel II implementation in Lithuania - Kazimieras Ramonas - Director, Credit Institutions Supervision Department, Bank of Lithuania, Vilnius
  • Basel II - credit risk management: advantages and disadvantages of the approach, adaptation of the international experience into the Russian practice - Peter Schmidt, Manager, BearingPoint
  • Foreign capital in the banking sector as a factor for competitiveness development - Edvin Kornelius, Chairman of the Board, Profibank, Saint-Petersburg
  • Strategic positioning of the medium and small banks in terms of the banking business consolidation - Natalya Tysyachnikova - Chief Consultant, Consulting Group "Banks. Finance. Investments", Moscow
  • Credit securitization and the role of an auditor and a consultant in such transactions - Andrew Sorokin - Senior Manager of the Global Financial Group, Ernst & Young, Moscow
  • IT-infrastructure as a factor for a bank soundness and capitalization growth - Alexander Pogudin - Chairman of the Board, Center of Financial Technologies, Novosibirsk
  • What should be made for implementation of Basel II in a small Russian bank - Dmitry Tsapaev, Director of the Competence centre, Information Business Systems (IBS Company), Moscow
Workshop 2. Soundness of Banks: Assessment, Measurement and Maintenance.
Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, Pushkin Hall

Co-Chairmen:
Vladimir Safronov - Head of Main Inspection of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Elena Ischenko - Head of the Financial Monitoring and Currency Control Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Vasily Solodkov - Director of the Banking Institute, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • Advantages of implementation of new Basel accord requirements for Russian banks - Natalia Mileshkina, Director, Audit and Consulting Services to Financial Institutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
  • Problems and prospects of the inspection quality improvement - Vladimir Safronov, Head of Main Inspection of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Role of Deposit Insurance and a sound banking system - John Bovenzi, Deputy to the Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington
  • Topical issues of the Russian banking soundness assessment - Mikhail Kovrigin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Problems of retail crediting normative regulation - Vladimir Dzhikovich, President, Association of Banks of North-West, Saint-Petersburg
  • Rating analysis as a generally accepted and universal model of the financial soundness assessment. Standard & Poor's experience in the assessment of the Russian banks creditability - Ekaterina Trofimova, Deputy Director for Financial Institutions, Standard & Poor's
  • Risk-assessment of financial institutions and sound risk management processes in financial institutions - Rolf Hans Gebauer, First Vice-President, KfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt am Main
  • State ownership in banking markets - the Russian case - Vasily Solodkov, Director of the Banking Institute, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • The future of the Banking sector in Russia - opportunities and challenges - Kurt Geiger, Business Group Director, Financial Institutions Group, EBRD
  • Establishment of a soundness assessment system for the Belarus banking sector - Alexander Gallov, Deputy Head of Main Board of Banking Supervision, National Bank of Belarus Republic, Minsk
  • Assessment of the banking risk management in the course of the credit institution inspections - Tatiana Morozova, Head of the Department, Main Inspection of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Instruments for management decisions making - Mikhail Lebedev, Director, Accounting and Reporting Division, Diasoft Company, Moscow
  • Technologies of the scenario planning and banking assets optimization taking risks into account - Anton Tataurov, Manager for Business Development, Information Business Systems (IBS Company), Moscow
  • Standartization of the risk assessment using the Credit history bureau instruments - Oleg Lagutkin, Director, Credit history bureau "Global Payments Credit Services"
  • Banking quality standards and process technologies as a base for operational risks management - Rustem Mardanov, Chairman of the National Bank of Bashkortostan Republic, Bank of Russia, Ufa
  • Approach to the estimation and analysis of the region's banking sector security - Vladimir Alenin, Head of Main Board of Bank of Russia for Kostroma Region, Kostroma
  • Management of operational risks in Russian banks: problems and opportunities - Elena Rozanova, Head of Risk-Management Practice, Energy Consulting Company, Moscow
Workshop 3. Bank Competitiveness: Factors of Success.
Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, North Hall, 1st Floor

Co-Chairmen:
Alexey Simanovsky - Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Pavel Medvedev - First Vice-Chairman, Committee for Credit Institutions and Financial Markets, State Duma, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
Alexander Khandruev - First Vice-President, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
  • Improvements in the legal terms for bank competitiveness - Sergey Golubev, Director of Legal Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Retail banking in the environment of fast-growing and highly competitive market. The factors which will determine winners and losers - Chris Barrett, Partner, Performance Improvement Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Retail business development - Eugeny Luzin, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Investtorgbank, Moscow
  • Why has Russia become so attractive for foreign banks? - Johann Jonach, Chairman of the Board, Raiffeisenbank Austria, Moscow
  • Competitiveness and banking supervision - Alexey Simanovsky, Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Development of banking sector of Kazakhstan Republic: challenges and prospects - Mukhtar Bubeev, Director, Department for Strategy and Analysis, Agency of Kazakhstan Republic for Regulation & Supervision of financial market & financial institutions, Almaty
  • Competitive aspects of interaction between banks and insurance companies - Julia Bondareva, Head, Department for Financial Markets Control, Federal Antimonopoly Service, Moscow
  • Middle-term financing of export-import transactions with the participation of German banks - Nikolay Alexeev, Member of the Board, Director for International Business, Petersburg Social Commercial Bank, Saint-Petersburg
  • Crediting of indirect leasing companies as a factor for bank creditability growth - Kirill Tsarev, Presidents Advisor, International Bank of Saint-Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg
  • Soundness of banks and Russian banking sector: impact of the enforcement measures - Alexey Guznov, Deputy Director, Legal Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Improvements in the legal terms of banking - Konstantin Lubenchenko, Vice-President, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
  • Amdocs solutions - as a foundation for successful collaboration between financial institutions and their clients - Isaak Mostov, Vice-President, Amdocs company
  • Automation of the retail services. Problems of competitiveness and cost value - Yury Maltsev, Deputy General Director, Mosclearingcentre, Moscow
  • Experience of implementation of self-service payment terminals in banks - Dmitry Golovan, Head of Internet Technologies Department, Petersburg Social Commercial Bank, Saint-Petersburg
  • Strategic alliances in the electronic bank payments: experience of the ORBS project - Andrey Chumachenko, Senior Consultant, Consulting Group "Banks. Finance. Investments", Moscow
  • Innovative decisions and their role in the bank business development - Roman Stiatyugin, Director, Retail Services Division, Diasoft Company, Moscow
  • Up-to-date technologies for cash handling based on the hardware-software complex - Eduard Wertmann, General Director, Giesecke&Devrient LOMO, Saint-Petersburg
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as an instrument for retail banking competitiveness growth - Oleg Baranov, Managing Director, Neoflex Company, Moscow
  • SOA as factor for competitiveness: technologies and approaches to bank business management - Alexander Romanovsky, Director for Decisions-Deputy Director, Department for Financial Institutions Governance, SAP CIS, Moscow
  • Upgrading the competitiveness as a necessary condition for successful long-term development of Russian banks - Ekaterina Trofimova, Deputy Director for Financial Institutions, Standard&Poor's
  • Platform for a liquid credit portfolio. Successful projects experience - Andrey Fomichev, Managing Director, Finance Technologies Centre, Novosibirsk
  • Development of the Far East banking sector: problems and prospects - Victor Rudko-Silivanov, Head of Main Board of Bank of Russia for Primorsk Region, Vladivostok
  • Credit economic terms for trust: a historical perspective - Harry Nicholas Kypraios, Head of the Chair of Economics, Rollins College, Florida, USA
  • On the effectiveness of Russian banks and banking system development - Fuad Aleskerov, Head of the Chair, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Workshop 4. Transparency of Banking as a Factor for its Development.
Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, Pavlovsk Hall

Co-Chairmen:
Mikhail Sukhov - Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Alexander Turbanov - General Director, State Corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency", Moscow
Gennady Mescheryakov - President-Chairman of the Board, Svyaz-Bank, Moscow
  • Improvement of transparency of credit institutions: overlap of IFRS and Basel II (Pillar 3) - Ekaterina Nekrasova, Senior Manager, Audit and Consulting Services to Financial Institutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
  • Transparency issues and prospects of IPO's for Russian banks - Avet Mirakyan, Senior Manager of the Global Financial Group, Ernst & Young, Moscow
  • Transparency and capitalization of the credit institutions - Mikhail Sukhov, Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Transparency of banking as a condition for its development - Vladimir Volkov, Deputy Director - Head of the Division, Accounting and Reporting Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Disclosure of information by banks - sources, prospects and volume - Kirill Parfyonov, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Legion Bank, Moscow
  • How to count the capital size correctly - Richard Hainsworth, General Director, RusRating Company
  • Banking transparency in the retail crediting market - Olga Podstrekha, Head of the Division, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Evaluating microfinance institutions - Charles Rock, Professor of Economics - Rollins College, Florida, USA
  • Internal systems of cash flow management as means for banking transparency providing - Vladimir Linkov, Head of Moscow branch, Giesecke&Devrient-LOMO, Moscow
  • Credit reporting efficiency - Sergey Zhivotov, General Director, North-West Credit History bureau, Saint-Petersburg
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 16.00 Closing plenary session, speeches by Co-Chairmen on the results of Workshop sessions
16.30 - 17.00 Press conference
20.00 Bankers' Ball
Day 4, Saturday, June 9, 2007
8.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
Departure of the Congress participants

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