XVIIth International Banking Congress, May 28-31, 2008, Saint-Petersburg
"Banks in the Financial Intermediation System: Present State of the Art and Prospects"
PROGRAMME

Day 1, Wednesday, May 28, 2008
8.00 - 20.00 Arrival, registration and accommodation of Congress participants at Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel (14, Korablestroiteley str., St.Petersburg)
09.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
11.00 - 14.30 Excursion: "Saint-Petersburg - the maritime capital of Russia", with a visit to the Naval Museum, cruiser "Aurora", icebreaker "Krasin"
14.30 - 16.00 Lunch
15.00 - 15.30 Press Conference
16.00 - 20.00 A Trip to Kronshtadt, the town of Maritime Glory (by Boat)
21.00 A concert at Mariinsky Theatre (Concert Hall)
23.00 Dinner
Day 2, Thursday, May 29, 2008
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
9.00 - 18.00 Plenary session
12.00 - 12.30 Coffee - break
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
PLENARY SESSION
"Banks in the Financial Intermediation System: Present State of the Art and Prospects"
(Leningrad Hall, Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
09.00 - 09.30 Official opening and welcome addresses to the XVIIth International Banking Congress:
                    Valentina Matvienko - Governor of Saint-Petersburg
                    Evgeny Lukyanov - Russian Federation Presidential Envoy's Representative Office for North-West Federal District
                    Dmitry Ananyev Chairman of the Committee for financial markets and money circulation, Council of Federation, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
                    Sergey Ignatiev - Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Moscow
09.30 - 10.00 Russian banks in the financial intermediation system - Gennady Melikian, First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow
10.00 - 10.15 A higher effectiveness of the banking sector - the topical task for the Russian economy development - Andrey Kostin, President - Chairman of the Board, VTB Bank, Saint-Petersburg
10.15 - 10.30 Prospects of the Russian banking system development - Oleg Vyugin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, MDM-bank, Moscow
10.30 - 10.45 Legislative support of the Russian financial markets development - Dmitry Ananyev, Chairman of the Committee for financial markets and money circulation, Council of Federation, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
10.45 - 11.00 Lending expansion in Russia: pathways and problems - Garegin Tosunian, President, Association of Russian Banks, Moscow
11.00 - 11.15 Lessons learned from U.S. mortgage crisis - Claude A.Rollin, Deputy to the Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington D.C.
11.15 - 11.30 Russia as the world financial centre: strategic goals of the national banking system - Anatoly Aksakov, Deputy of the State Duma, Member of the Financial Market Committee, Member of the National Banking Council, President of Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
11.30 - 11.40 Non-banks in the financial intermediation system: state of the art and prospects - Pavel Medvedev, Deputy of State Duma, Member of Committee for Financial Market, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
11.40 - 11.50 Development of financial intermediation as a condition necessary for long-term social and economical growth of the country - Alexander Murychev, First Executive Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Council, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
11.50 - 12.00 Topical issues of competition at banking services market - Andrey Kashevarov, Deputy Head, RF Federal Antimonopoly Service, Moscow
12.00 - 12.10 Foundation of banking system soundness of the Belarus Republic - Pavel Kallaur, First Vice-Chairman of the Board, National Bank of the Belarus Republic, Minsk
12.10 - 12.20 Public sector banks in the financial intermediation system prospects, problems and challenges in emerging markets - special reference to India - Gurappa Gopalakrishna, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai
12.20 - 13.00 Coffee - break
13.00 - 13.15 Banking risks management in terms of financial markets globalization - Elena Bakhmutova, Chairman, Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan for Financial markets regulation and supervision, Almaty
13.15 - 13.30 Banks role in the establishment of the world finance centre in Moscow - Alexander Vinokurov, General Director, CIT Finance Investment Bank, Saint-Petersburg
13.30 - 13.45 Major trends in corporate crediting market - from the replenishment of circulating assets to the production development - Dmitry Olyunin, Chairman of the Board, VTB Bank North-West, Saint-Petersburg

13.45 - 14.00 Instability of world financial markets: lessons and consequences for Russia - Alexander Zakharov, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Sberbank, Moscow
14.00 - 14.10 Legislative support of the development of the banking system: current issues - Ruslan Belyaev, Head of St.Petesburg Branch, Citibank
14.10 - 14.20 New banking products and technologies - Dmitry Levin, Chairman of the Board, Bank "Russian Standard", Moscow
14.20 - 14.30 Establishment of the international Russian-Italian investment bank - Antonio Fallico, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KMB-BANK, bank of Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Moscow
14.30 - 14.40 Russian banks in the period of the global credit market readjustment - Ekaterina Trofimova, Associate Director, Financial Institutions, Standard&Poors, Paris
14.40 - 14.50 Problems of the Russian regional banking network development and availability of the banking services - Oleg Danilin, Head of Global Financial Services and Treasury Advisory, Ernst & Young, Moscow
14.50 - 16.00 Lunch (Pribaltiysky Restaurant)
16.00 - 16.15 Presentation of the TACIS Project "Transition to IAS/IFRS in the banking sector" and achievements - Elizaveta Filippova, Partner, Audit and Consulting Services to Financial Institutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, Moscow
16.15 - 16.30 Role of the foreign investors and creditors in a higher competitiveness of Russian commercial banks - Nikolay Alexeev, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Petersburg Social Commercial Bank, Saint-Petersburg
16.30 - 16.45 Higher competitiveness based on the effective use of the information resources - Sergey Kovtun, Financial Sector Director, BearingPoint
16.45 - 17.00 IT-drivers for bank business growth - Alexander Gentsis, Senior Vice-President, Director for Business Development, Diasoft, Moscow
17.00 - 17.15 Transformation of the banking business in the world without borders - German Khokhlov, Vice-President, CMA Small Systems AB
17.15 - 17.30 Innovative approaches to the establishment of effective regional banks' infrastructure - Andrey Fomichev, Managing Director, Financial Institutions Directorate, Center of Financial Technologies, Novosibirsk
17.30 - 17.45 Attraction of the banking capital to the transport-logistics complex and shipping - Vitaly Arkhangelsky, President, Oslo Marin Group, Saint-Petersburg

19.00 Excursion "The Insular City" with a visit to the Elaginoostrovsky Palace, riding in horse-drawn carriages, concert, informal dinner, fireworks
24.00 Panorama of the night city and the bridges drawn apart
Day 3, Friday, May 30, 2008
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
9.00 - 14.00 Workshops
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee-break
Workshop sessions:
Workshop 1. Banks in the Financial Markets Competition: Challenges, Trends and Prospects
Park Inn Pribaltyiskaya Hotel, Petrodvorets Hall

Co-Chairmen:
Gennady Melikian - First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Garegin Tosunian - President, Association of Russian Banks, Moscow
Alexander Murychev, First Executive Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Council, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
  • Enhanced competitiveness - key for long-term healthy development of Russian banks - Ekaterina Trofimova, Associate Director, Financial Institutions, Standard & Poor's, Paris
  • Legislative prospects for development of mechanism for banking products realization - Elena Muzyka, Deputy Director, Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • How to improve credit operations with the aid of an external collection agency - Artur Alexandrovich, General Director, Pristav Debt Collection Agency, Moscow
  • Legal aspects of interaction of banks and other financial intermediaries - Igor Dubov, Partner, Head of Financial practices, Juridical company "Yakovlev & Partners", Moscow
  • Bank of Russia's measures for inspection process optimization - Nadezhda Kostyuk, Deputy Head - Head of the Board, Main Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Problems of competition in the sphere of small and medium business crediting - Reiner Mueller-Hanke, Chairman of the Board, KMB-Bank, bank of Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Moscow
  • Transition to IAS/IFRS as the means for banks higher competitiveness - Tatiana Klyuchkina, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
  • Topical issues of banks' retail services development - Ilya Kokarev, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Bank BFA, Saint-Petersburg
  • "Flea" market of financial services (Aspects of non-credit organizations' unfair competition. Double regulatory standards) - Yury Maltsev, Chairman, ARB Committee for Payment systems and settlements organization
  • Retail payments. Market analysis -Alexey Zhadobin, Chairman of the Board, Raschetnyi centr Finansovogo Doma, Saint-Petersburg
  • SOA technologies for banking business growth - Roman Stiatyugin, Vice-President, Director - Retail Services Division, Diasoft Company, Moscow
  • Interaction between directions of new bank activities and deposit insurance system - Victor Titov, General Manager of the Fund, Saint-Petersburg Foundation for Support of Deposit Insurance System and Credit institutions, Saint-Petersburg
    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • Upgrading of the Russian banks competitiveness
  • Interaction of banks and other financial intermediaries: competition and collaboration
  • Mutual penetration of the financial institutions: opportunities and risks
  • Banking universalization and specialization: advantages and disadvantages
  • Bank as a financial supermarket
  • Credit institutions and financial intermediation in the payment systems
Workshop 2. Soundness of Banks: Assessment, Measurement and Maintenance.
Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, Pavlovsk Hall

Co-Chairmen:
Nadezhda Ivanova - Head, Collated-Economic Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Alexander Khandruev - First Vice-President, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), General Director, Consulting Group "Banks. Finance. Investments." Moscow
Vladimir Dzhikovich, President, Association of Banks of North-West, Saint-Petersburg
  • Channels of the transmission mechanisms of the Russian monetary policy - Vyatcheslav Morgunov, Director, Research and Information Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • System of refinancing for credit institutions: instruments, applications, prospects of development - Nadezhda Ivanova, Head, Collated-Economic Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • The challenges faced by the Russian banking sector in light of the present credit squeeze - Kurt Geiger, Business Group Director, Financial Institutions & Private Equity Group, London
  • On the provision of liquidity and refinancing of credit institutions - Vladimir Gamza, First Vice-President, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
  • Monetary regulation in Russia in terms of international financial market crisis - Alexander Polonsky, Deputy Director, Collated-Economic Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • REPO operations in the refinancing system: new opportunities for banks - Konstantin Volkov, President, SRO National Security Market Association, Moscow
  • Legislation improvement in the sphere of the pledged security for real economy sector crediting - Vladimir Dzhikovich, President, Association of Banks of North-West, Saint-Petersburg
  • Role of banking credits in the renovation of productive assets - Ksenia Guseva, Head of Division, Research and Information Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Major rating factors and key trends of medium - term development of bank sector of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan - Elena Romanova, Associate Director, Financial Institutions, Standard & Poor's, Moscow
  • On the financing of the major regional infrastructure projects - Victor Rudko-Silivanov, Head of Main Board of Bank of Russia for Primorsk Region, Vladivostok
  • Improvements in payments system - Timur Batyrev, Director, Department for Regulation, Management and Monitoring of Bank of Russia Payment System, Moscow
  • On the application of the Saratov model for the interbank credit market - Sergey Gubin, Head of Main Board of Bank of Russia for Saratov Region, Saratov
  • Innovations in the money transfer market - Tatiana Fedotova, Head of Division, Innovative products and services, Centre of Finance technologies, Novosibirsk
    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • Role of banks in the money transmission mechanism: the world experience and situation in the Russian market
  • Specifics of monetary policy in developed and emerging markets: goals, instruments and results
  • System of refinancing for credit institutions and its impact on the banking sector soundness
  • Role of banking credits in the renovation of production assets
  • Development of the credit institutions' resources
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
Anatoly Aksakov - Deputy of the State Duma, Member of the Financial Market Committee, Member of the National Banking Council, President of Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
Pavel Medvedev - Deputy of State Duma, Member of Committee for Financial Market, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
Vladimir Safronov - Head of Main Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Financial stability of commercial banks in terms of globalization - Galina Panova, Director, International Center for Strategic Economic Researches and Projects, Financial Academy at RF Government, Moscow
  • Banks transparency in financial risks management - Natalia Mileshkina, Director, Audit and Consulting Services to Financial Institutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
  • System risks: factors and protection measures - Alexey Simanovsky, Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • On the system banking risks - Mikhail Kovrigin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Response of the financial market on the external impacts - Igor Merkuriev, Deputy Head of Division - Head of Sector, Research and Information Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Liquidity analysis and other key rating factors in Standard & Poor's assessment of Russian banks - Ekaterina Trofimova, Associate Director, Financial Institutions, Standard&Poor's, Paris
  • Banking risks and improvements in the inspection work - Vladimir Safronov, Head of Main Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Identification and analysis of clients activities as a factor for legal and reputation risk management - Elena Ischenko, Head of the Financial Monitoring and Currency Control Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Peculiarities of up-to-date banking regulation - Stanislav Spitsin, Head of the Main Board of the Bank of Russia for Nizhny Novgorod Region, Nizhny Novgorod
  • Banking risks management: score models and internal rating models - Alexandra Alexashina, Senior Consultant, BearingPoint Company, Moscow
  • Implementation of the risk management system - Yury Mikhailov, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young, Moscow
  • Issues of interaction with problem banks - Ruben Amiryants, Deputy Director, Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Three components of Basel II - three answers to the financial market challenges - Tim O'Brien, FSVC's Russia Country Director, Moscow
  • Pillar III - Disclosing the Information on Banks Operation - market Discipline - Marko Tintor, Chief of the Service for Portfolio Management and Development of Risk Based Supervision in Sector for Supervision, Central Bank of Montenegro, Podgorica
  • Basel II in a view of UniCredit Group: peculiarities of implementation in Russia - Eugenia Kulikova, Head, Department for Basel Committee Requirements Control, Unicredit Bank, Moscow
  • 302-Provision - stage of bank IT-systems evolution - Alexander Lyashkov, Vice-President, Director for Financial Markets Division, DIASOFT Company, Moscow
    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • Banking risk management: present and future
  • Response of financial market to the external impact
  • Banks in the international financial and currency markets
  • Consolidated risk-oriented supervision under development and globalization of the financial markets
  • New instruments for risk management: practice and regulation
  • System risks and monitoring of the bank sector soundness
  • Three components of Basle-II - three answers to the financial markets challenges
Workshop 4. Transparency of Banking as a Factor for its Development.
Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, Business Hall ("Delovoy"), 1st Floor

Co-Chairmen:
Mikhail Sukhov - Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Vladimir Romanov - Chairman of the Board, Bank "Elektronika", Moscow
Vasily Solodkov - Director of the Banking Institute, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • Banking technologies as the instrument for purposes achievements - Vladimir Romanov, Chairman of the Board, Bank "Elektronika", Moscow
  • Generation of banking products and ways of their realization - Sergey Bludov, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Russlavbank, Moscow
  • New banking technologies and products for ensuring and upgrading of their competitiveness - Sergey Pavlov, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Corporate Finance Bank, Moscow
  • Regulatory conditions for development of the up-to-date forms of bank services - Mikhail Sukhov, Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Mobile banking and mobile commerce: goals, instruments, results - Igor Milashevsky, Chairman of Board of Directors, Interveil, Moscow
  • New products for bank liquidity management and reduction of cash-flow cycle - Vasily Solodkov, Director of the Banking Institute, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • Introduction to Standard & Poor's credit ratings - Elena Eliseenko, Associate Director, Business Development Financial Institutions, Moscow
  • Assessment of the risk management system in the inspections of informational technologies used at credit institutions - Rinat Yarulin, Head of the Division, Main Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Quality standards of banking products - as a factor for higher competitiveness and soundness of banks - Rustem Mardanov, Chairman of the National Bank of Bashkortostan Republic, Bank of Russia, Ufa
  • New technologic solutions: hardware and software packages - Irina Mikhailova, Head of Division, "Projects Management", Giesecke&Devrient LOMO, Saint-Petersburg
  • Topical solutions for investment banks - German Khokhlov, Vice-President, CMA Small Systems AB
  • Impact of IT-development on banks' investment attractiveness - Alexey Ilyin, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young, Moscow
  • Internet-banking: development and risks - Kirill Parfyonov, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Bank "Legion", Moscow
  • New banking services as an advantage at the competitive market - Alexander Lotonin, Head of Representative Office, HSBC Bank, Saint-Petersburg
  • Foreign investments as a factor for promotion of new products and technologies - Roger Delous, Director, regional centre "North-West", Raiffeisenbank, Saint-Petersburg
  • SAP technologies as new opportunities for bank management quality - Alexey Tananakin, Director, Financial Institutions Department, SAP CIS, Moscow
  • Management of the information security risk and information risk based on 'ISO 9001, 27001' standards - Boris Dyakonov, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Bank24.ru, Yekaterinburg
  • ECM (Enterprise Content Management) for cash-flow processing. Methods for a higher efficiency of Cash Centers - Alexey Baranov, Director for Program Decisions, DE LA RUE CIS, Sergiev Posad
  • Castella - a new experience in cash processing - Yury Gamzolin, Sales Manager, Giesecke&Devrient LOMO, Saint-Petersburg
    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • New banking technologies and products for ensuring and upgrading of their competitiveness
  • Reengineering of business processes and upgrading of the banking services
  • Internet-banking: management issues and prospects
  • Foreign investments as a factor for promotion of new products and technologies
  • Outsourcing in the bank information technologies
  • Up-to-date technologies and banks operational risks
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
19.00 Bankers' Ball
Day 4, Saturday, May 31, 2008
8.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
Departure of the Congress participants

Organizers reserve the right to amend the programme.

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