PROGRAMME OF THE 18-TH INTERNATIONAL BANKING CONGRESS

 

DAY 1                    Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

 

08.00 – 20.00      Arrival, registration and accommodation of Congress participants at Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel (14, Korablestroiteley Str., St.Petersburg)

09.00 – 11.00      Breakfast (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant)

11.00 – 14.30      “Stately Saint-Petersburg”, a sight-seeing trip with a visit to the Yusupovsky Palace

14.30 – 16.30      Lunch (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant)

15.00 – 15.30      Press Conference (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant – Blue Hall)

16.30                  Departure to “Boat trip across rivers and canals of Saint-Petersburg” from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel

                          At the end of the Trip buses go directly to the Mikhailovsky Theatre without visiting the Hotel

17.00 – 18.30      A Boat trip across rivers and canals of Saint-Petersburg (Departure from the pier “Universitetskaya Embankment, 13  (Vasilievsky Island))

18.15                  Departure to the Mikhailovsky Theatre from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel for those who don’t participate in the trip

19.00                  A ballet performance “Spartak” at Mikhailovsky Theatre

22.00    Dinner (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant

 

DAY 2                   Thursday, May 28th, 2009

 

07.30 – 08.30      Breakfast (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant)

08.30                  Departure from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel

08.00 – 09.00      Registration of Congress participants, Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute

09.00 – 17.15      The work of IBC-2009 will take place in the Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute (2; 21st Line, Vasilievsky Island, Saint-Petersburg; Entrance from Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment)

 

PLENARY SESSION

Growth and Stability of Banking System: Searching for Optimum”

(Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, Assembly Hall, 4th  floor)

 

Official opening the Congress:

Valentina Matvienko - Governor of Saint-Petersburg

Sergey Ignatiev - Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Moscow

 

Welcome addresses to the XVIIIth  International Banking Congress:

Eugeny Lukyanov - Presidential Envoy's Representative Office for North-West Federal District

Gennady Melikian - First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Sergey Bazhanov – Deputy Chairman, Committee for Financial Markets and Money Circulation, Council of Federation of RF Federal Assembly

Yury Zelensky - State Duma of RF Federal Assembly

 

Speeches by:

Growth and stability of the banking system: search for an optimum - Gennady Melikian, First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Raw material resources as a factor for financial recovery of the state economy – Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector, Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, Saint-Petersburg

Banks and the Real Economy Sector: crediting under crisis conditions - Alexander Murychev, First Executive Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Council, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow

Urgent anticrisis measures to upgrade the banking system activities - Garegin Tosunian President, Association of Russian Banks, Moscow

 

Factors of sustainable growth of the Russian banking system: criteria and necessary measures - 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:

Bella ZlatkisDeputy Chairman of the Board , Sberbank

 

Coffee – break, Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, 1st floor

 

Expected innovations in banking legislation – Liana Pepelyaeva, Deputy of the State Duma, Deputy Chairman of the Financial Market Committee, Moscow

Sustainable architecture of the banking system: search for an optimum - Pavel Medvedev, Deputy of State Duma, Member of Committee for Financial Market, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow 

Role of Deposit Insurance Agency in upgrading of the banking system soundness – Alexander Turbanov, General Director, State Corporation “Deposit Insurance Agency”, Moscow

Interaction of Federal Antimonopoly Service and Bank of Russia on regulation of banking services market – Andrey Kashevarov, Deputy Head, Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS of Russia), Moscow

Crisis challenges and measures to overcome them by the Russian banking system - Dmitry Olyunin, Chairman of the Board, VTB Bank North-West, Saint-Petersburg

Regulation in light of the crisis (Basel II and IFRS). What issues, what should be done? – Sylvie Matherat, Director of Financial Stability, Bank of France, Paris

Financial crisis and regulatory reform - Natalya Nikolaeva, Director, Government Affairs, Citibank, Moscow

Banking system as the most important link for providing the budget with the obligatory tax payments – Marina Yankina, Head, Interregional Inspection, Federal Tax Board of Russia for Largest Taxpayers ¹ 9, Moscow

Hungarian initiatives for the EU-level banking supervision – Csaba Varga, Director General, Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority, Budapest

 

Lunch

 

The role of central banks in global crisis as creditors of the highest instance: general view and experience of the Central bank of Montenegro – Franjo Stiblar, Professor, Member of the Council, Central Bank of Montenegro, Podgorica

Foreign investments as a factor for a higher competitiveness of Russian commercial banks – Nikolay Alexeev, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Petersburg Social Commercial Bank, Saint-Petersburg

Experiences from the Nordic financial crisis in 1990’s – Seppo Honkapohja, Professor, Member of the Board, Bank of Finland, Helsinki

Money transfer! Payments! Crisis?!Nikolay Gusman, President – Chairman of the Board, Russlavbank, Moscow

Up-to-date realities – new opportunities – Alexander Gentsis, Senior Vice-President, Director for Business Development, Diasoft Company, Moscow

Giesecke & Devrient – LOMO, ZAO: mission, goals and clients’ interests – Vladimir Linkov, Director, Moscow Branch, Giesecke & Devrient – LOMO, ZAO, Moscow

Bank of future – IBM view – Roman Surgund, Head of Division for Decisions Supply at Financial Sector, IBM Company

The necessity of cooperation in banking business – Stuart Lawson, Chairman of the Board, HSBC Bank, Moscow

 

17.15                  Departure to the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel

18.15                  Departure for the “Romantic Gatchina” meeting from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel

20.00 – 23.00     “Romantic Gatchina” meeting with a visit to the Gatchinsky Palace, informal dinner, fireworks

24.00                  Panorama of the night city and the bridges drawn apart

 

DAY 3           Friday, May 29th, 2009

 

07.30 – 08.30      Breakfast (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant)

08.30                  Departure from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel

09.00 – 14.00      Workshops (Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute)

11.30 – 12.00      Coffee-break (Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, 1st floor)

 

Workshop sessions

 

Workshop 1. Banks and the Real Economy Sector: Technologies, Investments, Innovations, New Opportunities

 

Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, Assembly Hall, 4th floor

Co-Chairmen:            

Gennady MelikianFirst 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

First attempts of banking asset securitization in Belarus RepublicPyotr Mamanovich, Member of the Board of Directors, Head of the Main Board for Monetary operations, National Bank of Belarus Republic, Minsk

Payment system of Bank of Russia as a factor for banking system soundness – Timur Batyrev, Director, Department for Regulation, Governance and Monitoring of Payment System, Bank of Russia, Moscow

On actions of world finance leaders facilitating crisis recovery measures - Elizaveta Filippova, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, Moscow

Validation of models for creditability assessment of borrowers - Sergey Kovtun, Financial Sector Director, BearingPoint Company

Payment terminal of a bank. How to select a proper strategy and avoid errors – Dmitry Golovan, General Director, Payment System “Kassira.net” (payment system of Petersburg Social Commercial Bank), Saint-Petersburg

Restructuring in a credit relations systemAlexey Plyakin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Issues of investment projects in real economy sector during the credit crunch - Ksenia Guseva, Head of Division, Research and Information Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Law “On the freedom of settlements”-Yury Maltsev, First Deputy General Director, Mosclearingcenter, Moscow

“Development platform” – a unique facility for anticrisis banking strategy realization – Andrey Fomichev, Managing Director, Centre of Finance technologies, Novosibirsk

Working at stale debts in terms of financial crisis – Dmitry Olshevsky, Manager, BearingPoint Company

Payment activity of non-credit institutions – Alexey Zhadobin, Chairman of the Board, Raschetnyi centr Finansovogo Doma, Saint-Petersburg

Issues of legislative support of commercial banks’ resources - Vladimir Dzhikovich, President, Association of Banks of North-West, Saint-Petersburg

Legal risk of real sector crediting – Igor Dubov, Chairman, Moscow Lawyers Collegium, Head of Financial practices, Juridical company “Yakovlev & Partners”, Moscow

Banks’ front office. Automatization technology – Alexey Yerasov, Head of the Department “Projecting management”, Giesecke & Devrient – LOMO, ZAO, Saint-Petersburg

 

The following issues are to be discussed in detail:

·        Project investment in the real economy sector;

·        Small and medium business crediting problems;

·        Use of the non-financial sector possibilities for a higher capitalization of banks;

·        Development of innovative sources for financing the work of credit institutions and securitization of bank assets;

·        Distant bank servicing as an alternative to a bank branch network: problems of introduction and specifics of regulation;

·        Improvements in legislation for regulating relations at the financial services market.

 

Workshop 2. World Financial Crisis: Lessons and Prospects.

 

Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, Auditorium 1166, 1st floor

Co-Chairmen:

 Vyatcheslav Morgunov, Director, Research and Information Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Sergey Shvetsov, Director, Department for Financial Markets Operations, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Vladimir Chistyukhin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Mikhail Eskindarov, Rector, Financial Academy at RF Government, Moscow

Galina Beloglazova, Head of the Chair “Banking”, Saint-Petersburg State University for Economics and Finance, Saint-Petersburg

Current issues of financial markets stability from the perspective of the Austrian banking system – Michael Wuerz, Head, Financial Markets Analysis & Surveillance Division, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna

The world financial crisis and prospects of Russian higher financial and economic education – Mikhail Eskindarov, Rector, Financial Academy at RF Government, Moscow

Restructuring of banking and corporate sector: international experience – Elina Ribakova, Chief Economist, Citibank, Moscow

Lessons to be learned from the financial crisis: what kind of new regulation after the G20 meetings? – Sylvie Matherat, Director of Financial Stability, Bank of France, Paris

Changing in economic behavior of clients and banks under the conditions of Russian and international economic crisis in and their impact on the future structure of the world financial system and strategy of Russian banking sector development – Oleg Danilin, Partner, Ernst & Young (CIS) Company

Prospects of banking regulation and banking supervision development - Vladimir Chistyukhin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Transparency of the credit institutions’ ownership structure – Alexander Koloskov, Head of Division,  Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow

“Home Credit” Bank: development of retail business in new financial conditions – Ivan Svitek – Managing Director, Home Credit & Finance Bank, Moscow

Lessons learned from the crisis. Why is optimization of management processes important? – Valery Khrabrov, General Director, SAS Russia/CIS, Moscow

Nadezhda Kostyuk - Bank of Russia

Actual issues of interaction of banking and real sector of economy in the Far East during the financial crisis - Victor Rudko-Silivanov, Head of Main Board of Bank of Russia for Primorsk Region, Vladivostok

 

The following issues are to be discussed in detail:

·        World financial crisis: the origin, development, ways out of the situation;

·        Lessons to be learned from the financial crisis;

·        World financial crisis and the outlook for the financial system;

·        Macroeconomic policy and micro-regulation to ensure stability of economic systems;

·        Transparency at financial markets: challenges of the period.

 

Workshop 3. Bank Risks: Regulation and Management

 

Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, Conference Hall, 2nd 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

Jukka Vesala – Head of the Department, Financial Supervisory Authority of Finland, Helsinki

Christian Fehlker Team Leader, Banking Supervision, European Central Bank Frankfurt-am-Main

 

Lessons from the crisis for prudential supervision - Christian Fehlker, Team Leader Banking Supervision, ECB, Frankfurt-am-Main

Lessons from banking crises for supervisors - Jukka Vesala, Head of the Department, Financial Supervisory Authority of Finland, Helsinki

Supervisory and regulatory responses to the crisis - Antonio Garcia Pascual, International Monetary Fund Resident Advisor

Eurosystem Bank of Russia cooperation in challenging times - Johannes Priesemann, Resident Program Coordinator, ECB, Frankfurt-am-Main

Prospects of banking regulation: individual aspects - Alexey Simanovsky, Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Prospects of inspection development - Vladimir Safronov, Head of Main Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Corporate risk management. International practice – Timothy O’Brien, Head of Representative Office in Russia Financial Services Volunteer Corps

Kuat Kozhakhmetov - Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan for Financial markets regulation and supervision

Providing of transparency of banks ownership structure: topical legal issues – Alexey Guznov, Deputy Director, Legal Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Gilbert Gelard - International Accounting Standards Board

Work with problem banks – Ruben Amiriants, Deputy Director, Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Assets and liabilities management in terms of financial crisis – Igor Akulov, Head of Exotics Trading Department, Deutsche Bank, Moscow

Financial reporting analysis in terms of economic crisis - Natalia Mileshkina, Director, Audit and Consulting Services to Financial Institutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow

Basic directions of the deposit insurance system development - Victor Titov, General Manager of the Fund, Saint-Petersburg Foundation for Support of Deposit Insurance System and Credit institutions, Saint-Petersburg

Forecast of credit portfolio quality – Tatiana Petruk, Senior Consultant, BearingPoint Company

Collection of stale debts. How to increase collecting and decrease the collection costs – Yuly Goldberg, Director for Business Development, SAS Russia/CIS, Moscow

 



The following issues are to be discussed in detail:

·        Topical issues of risk-oriented supervision;

·        Regulation of banking and economic cycles: should regulation become anti-cyclic?

·        Bank and banking group management: advances, disadvantages, prospects;

·        Trans-border supervision: content, legal and organizational aspects;

·        System for disclosure of information on banking: status, problems, prospects;

·        Risks and bank capital;

·        Liquidity risk and its management under ordinary and extraordinary conditions.

 

Workshop 4. Banking Sector Consolidation

 

Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, Military School Hall, 2nd floor

Co-Chairmen:

Mikhail Sukhov – Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Valery Miroshnikov, - First Deputy General Director, State Corporation “Deposit Insurance Agency”, Moscow

Sergey GolubevDirector of Legal Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

 

Capital consolidation in banking sector: Russian conditions and international practice - Mikhail Sukhov – Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Legal regulation in the banking system development in the current terms - Sergey GolubevDirector of Legal Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Ownership change, consolidation and competition in the Russian banking industry – Andrei Vernikov, Professor, Higher School of economics, Moscow

Supervision in conditions of banking sector consolidation – Nikolay Pecheliev, Head of the Division, Department for Banking Regulation and Supervision, Bank of Russia, Moscow

Valery Miroshnikov, - First Deputy General Director, State Corporation “Deposit Insurance Agency”, Moscow

IT-support of banking business consolidation – Dmitry Zubarev, Vice-President, Director of Department “Settlements and main book”, Diasoft Company, Moscow

Optimization of banking consolidation – IBM view - Roman Surgund, Head of Division for Decisions Supply at Financial Sector, IBM Company

Business processes standardization as a condition for banking sector consolidation – Konstantin Markelov, Deputy Director for Business Development, OTR Company, Moscow

 

The following issues are to be discussed in detail:

·        Status of market and administrative incentives to bank consolidation;

·        Role of the bank bankruptcy prevention in the banking sector consolidation;

·        Influence of foreign capital upon competition in the banking sector;

·        Improvements in the merger and acquisition procedures as a support to the banking sector consolidation;

·        Participation of the non-financial sector in the bank capitalization;

·        Conditions for investment attractiveness of banks;

·        Possibilities of trans-border banking structures at Russian financial market;

·        Standardization of business processes as a condition for the banking sector consolidation.

 

14.00 – 15.00      Closing plenary session, presentations by Co-Chairmen on the results of Workshop sessions. (Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, Assembly Hall, 4th floor)

 

15.00                  Departure to the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel

15.30 – 16.30      Lunch (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel “Park Inn” Restaurant)

16.30 – 17.00      Press Conference (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant, Blue Hall)

16.30 – 17.30      Chess Tournament with the participation of Mark Taimanov - international grand master, honored sport master at Chairs, Fourfold Europe Champion - Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “A” Hall)

18.30                  Departure from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel to the Bankers Ball

19.00                  Bankers Ball (Military School Manege, Universitetskaya Embankment, 13)

 

DAY 4                   Saturday, May 30 , 2009

 

08.00 – 10.00      Breakfast (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, “Park Inn” Restaurant)

Departure of Congress participants