19th International Banking Congress, May 26-29, 2010, Saint-Petersburg
"Banks: life after the crisis"
PROGRAMME

Day 1, Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
8.00 - 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)
11.00 - 14.30 "Reforms made by Alexander II", a sight-seeing trip dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Bank of Russia with a visit to the Church of the Saviour-on-the-Blood and the Museum of the Main Board of the Bank of Russia for Saint-Petersburg
15.00 - 17.00 Lunch (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
16.00 - 16.30 Press Conference (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
17.30 Departure for an informal meeting in Pavlovsk from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel
18.30 - 24.00 Pavlovsk - a summer residence of the Russian tsars (visiting the main chambers of the Pavlovsk Palace, a stand-up reception in the Rose Pavilion of the Pavlovsk Park, fireworks)
Day 2, Thursday, May 27th, 2010
07.30 – 08.30 Breakfast (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
9.00 - 18.00 Plenary session (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
12.00 - 12.30 Coffee - break (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
14.30 – 15.30 Lunch (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
PLENARY SESSION
"Banks: Life after the Crisis"

09.00 - 09.35 Official opening and welcome addresses to the XIXth International Banking Congress by:
                    Mikhail Oseevsky - Vice-Governor of Saint-Petersburg
                    Sergey Ignatiev - Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Moscow
                    Ilya Klebanov - Presidential Envoy in the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation
                    Sergey Bazhanov - Deputy Chairman, Committee for Financial Markets and Money Circulation, Federation Council of RF Federal Assembly
                    Yury Zelensky - Deputy of the State Duma, Vice-Chairman of Committee for Financial Market
Speeches by:
09.35 - 10.20 Banks: life after the crisis - Gennady Melikian, First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow
10.20 - 10.35 Prospects of financial markets regulation - Alexey Savatyugin, Deputy Minister, RF Ministry of Finance, Moscow
10.35 - 10.45 Bank lending in terms of changing landscape of Russian economy - Alexander Murychev, Executive Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Council, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
10.45 - 11.00 Russian banking system: lessons learned from the crisis - Alexander Turbanov, General Director, State Corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency", Moscow
11.00 - 11.20 Bankization of Russia - paramount tasks - Garegin Tosunian - President, Association of Russian Banks, Moscow
11.20 - 11.40 Post-crisis banking system regulation - Anatoly Aksakov, Deputy of the State Duma, Member of the Financial Market Committee, President of Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
11.40 - 11.55 Problem of the bad assets and ways of its solutions - Dmitry Olyunin, Chairman of the Board, VTB Bank North-West, Saint-Petersburg
11.55 - 12.10 Security of the competitiveness at the banking services market - Andrey Kashevarov, Deputy Head, Federal Antimonopoly Service, Moscow
12.40 - 13.00 The EU's experience with Basel II and the way ahead - Elemer Tertak, Director Financial Institutions, European Commission, Brussels
13.00 - 13.25 State-banking partnership. Missed opportunities, or non-realized potential - Bella Zlatkis, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Sberbank, Moscow
13.25 - 13.35 Topical goals of legislative support of Russian financial market development - Liana Pepelyaeva, Deputy of the State Duma, Vice-Chairman of the Financial Market Committee, Moscow
13.35 - 13.50 Russian financial legislation: present trends - Pavel Medvedev, Deputy of State Duma, Member of Committee for Financial Market, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
13.50 - 14.10 The Global outlook - exiting from crisis policies and reforming the international financial architecture - Odd Per Brekk, Senior resident representative in Moscow, International Monetary Fund, Moscow
14.10 - 14.30 Financial stability framework and monetary policy - Bernd Braasch, Director, Financial Stability Department, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
14.30 - 14.45 Reshaping the global financial system, Citi's positions - Zdenek Turek, President ZAO Citibank, Citi Country Officer, Russia, Citi Regional Head, CIS, Moscow
14.45 - 15.00 Up-to date trends in banking retail as illustrated by Contact system - Nikolay Gusman, President - Chairman of the Board, Russlavbank, Moscow
15.00 - 15.15 Risk management: probation by the crisis - Andrey Kostin, Chairman of the Board, International Bank of Saint-Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg
16.15 - 16.25 Finance accounting as seen by the directorate in terms of economic instability - Natalia Mileshkina, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, Moscow
16.25 - 16.35 State-private partnership in projects on state services transition into the electronic form - Ilya Filatov, Vice - Chairman of the Board, Uralsib Bank, Moscow
16.35 - 16.45 Money transfers. Up-to-date trends in development - Vladimir Filipenkov, Head of the Sales Development Department for RF bank partners, Bank "Unistream", Moscow
16.45 - 17.00 Collaboration with US financial institutions as a factor for a higher competitiveness of Russian commercial banks: PSKB experience - Nikolay Alekseev, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Petersburg Social Commercial Bank, Saint-Petersburg
17.00 - 17.15 New realities - new opportunities - Alexander Gentsis, Senior Vice-President, Director for Business Development, Diasoft Company, Moscow
17.15 - 17.25 Upgrading of the bank effectiveness through the information infrastructure centralization: a new generation of solutions - Andrey Fomichev, Vice-Chairman of the Board, Centre of Finance technologies, Novosibirsk
17.25 - 17.35 Technological innovations for solving the topical problems of the banking sector - Vladimir Vodianov, Director, Department for Business Decisions Advancement, Microsoft Corporation
17.35 - 17.45 Putting risk management at the heart of the business - Charles Stewart, Senior Director, Moody's Analytics, London

18.30 Departure from the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel to a party at the in Hermitage Museum
19.00 - 21.30 A guided tour of the Hermitage
22.00 - 23.00 Dinner (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
23.30 - 1.30 Panorama of the night city and river bridges drawn apart
Day 3, Friday, May 28th, 2010
08.00 - 09.30 Breakfast (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
10.00 - 15.00 Workshops (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
12.30 - 13.00 Coffee-break
Workshop sessions:
Workshop 1. Economy and Banks: New Horizons of Development

Co-Chairmen:
                    Gennady Melikian - First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow
                    Anatoly Aksakov - Deputy of the State Duma, Member of the Financial Market Committee, President of Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
                    Alexander Semenyaka - General Director, The Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending, Moscow
                    Garegin Tosunian - President, Association of Russian Banks, Moscow
    Speeches by:
  • Monetary policy efficiency as a condition for economic growth - Yury Alymov, First Vice-Chairman, National Bank of Belarus Republic, Minsk
  • Financial crisis, banking structure and transmission of shocks - Bernd Braasch, Director, Financial Stability Department, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
  • Topical issues of licensing - Elena Muzyka, Deputy Director, Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Global financial crisis - its impact on banks in India and measures initiated - Om Parkash Aggarwal, Banking Ombudsman, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai
  • Crisis-response policies in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus - a comparative assessment - Stephan Barisitz, Senior Economist, Foreign Research Division, Austrian National Bank, Vienna
  • Anti-crisis measures - NBP experience - Piotr Szpunar, Director of the Financial System Department, National Bank of Poland, Warsaw
  • Measures for mortgage development in Russia for 2010 year and prospects up to 2020 - Alexander Semenyaka - General Director, The Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending, Moscow
  • Upgrading of the post-trading competitiveness of the securities market infrastructure - Eddi Astanin, General Director, National Depositary Centre, Moscow
  • Resource base of the Russian banks. Deposit certificates as an alternative to the irrevocable deposits - Vasily Solodkov, Director of the Banking Institute, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • Banking sector of the Azerbaijan Republic in crisis and post-crisis periods - Aliyar Mamedyarov, Deputy Head of the Supervision Department, National Bank of Azerbaijan Republic, Baku
  • Lessons learned from the financial crisis and improvement of the inspection activity - Nadezhda Kostyuk, Deputy Head, Chief Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Topical issues of Russian payment systems regulation and their supervision - Pavel Tamarov, Head of Division for Regulation of settlements through payment systems, Department for Settlements Regulation, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Topical issues of the restructuring of problem corporate loans - Alexander Yerofeev, Partner, Head of Division for Restructuring in CIS, Ernst & Young (CIS) Company
  • Development vectors for accounting requirements - Elena Kopaneva, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
  • Bank and borrower: who is right? - Igor Dubov, Chairman, Moscow Lawyers Collegium, Head of Financial practices, Juridical company "Yakovlev & Partners", Moscow
  • Provisioning of long-term resources and deposit insurance system development - Victor Titov, General Manager, Saint-Petersburg Fund for Development of the Deposit Insurance System and Credit Institutions, Saint-Petersburg
  • Modern banks: new ideas, new technologies - Roman Styatyugin, Vice-President, Director of Department "Credit and Deposit Service", Diasoft Company, Moscow
  • Financial provision of the social-economic development strategy in the Far East - Victor Rudko-Silivanov, Head of Main Board of Bank of Russia for Primorsky Kray, Vladivostok
  • Use of international standards and SWIFT infrastructure in BESP under the Bank of Russia and in the context of the International Finance Centre in Russian Federation - Stepan Kuznetsov, Managing Director, SWIFT Russian National Association, Moscow

Workshop 2. Banking Risks after the Crisis: Management, Regulation, Supervision

Co-Chairmen:
                    Alexey Simanovsky - Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
                    Alexander Levkovsky - President, Promsvyazbank, Moscow
                    Liikanen Erkki - Governor, Bank of Finland, Helsinki
                    Pavel Medvedev - Deputy of State Duma, Member of Committee for Financial Market, Member of the National Banking Council, Moscow
                    Alexander Murychev - Executive Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Council, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
                    Vladimir Safronov - Head of Chief Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
    Speeches by:
  • Legal base for banking regulation and supervision: state of the art and prospects - Sergey Golubev, Vice-Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Director of Legal Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • System risks of the financial sector - when could the crisis come to its end - Alexander Levkovsky, President, Promsvyazbank, Moscow
  • Questions of the international regulation and its perfection - Liikanen Erkki - Governor, Bank of Finland, Helsinki
  • Paticular aspects of the banking risks regulation - Alexey Simanovsky, Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Basic directions of the inspections improvement - Vladimir Safronov, Head of Chief Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Measuring and analyzing corporate default risk - Charles Stewart, Senior Director, Moody's Analytics, London
  • RiskCalc Russia: accurate and efficient measurement of corporate default risk - Andreas Kalenteridis, Assistant Director, Moody's Analytics, London
  • Prospects of Basel II implementation and development of risk management systems in credit institutions - Vladimir Chistyukhin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Reflections on banking, crisis, risk, regulation and supervision - Johannes Priesemann, Resident Coordinator, Eurosystem Cooperation programme with the Bank of Russia, European Central Bank, Moscow
  • Risk management, problem loans and asset quality - Timothy O'Brien, Head of Representative Office in Russia, Financial Services Volunteer Corps, Moscow
  • Stress-testing as an instrument for macro and micro analysis - Mikhail Kovrigin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Risk management: are the standards and quality adequate - Ferdinand Tuinstra, Senior Adviser for Banking, International Finance Corporation, Moscow
  • Credit risk decrease and improvement of the normative regulation of the lending and pledge legislation - Vladimir Dzhikovich, President, Association of Banks of North-West, Saint-Petersburg
  • Financial recovery of credit institutions - Ruben Amiriants, Deputy Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Finance accounting as seen by the management in terms of economic instability - Natalia Mileshkina, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, Moscow
  • Supervision of banking groups and banking holdings: state of the art, problems and prospects - Elena Korolyova, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Practical aspects of a more efficient internal control in the Russian banks - Alexey Bratanovsky, Manager, Ernst & Young (CIS)
  • Complex decisions on structuring and management of non-profile banking assets. Practice and recommendations - Alexander Artemiev, Director, BDO Company, Moscow
  • Payment services. EU's regulation and Russian legislative initiatives - Alexey Zhadobin, Chairman of the Board, Raschetnyi centr Finansovogo Doma, Saint-Petersburg
  • Assessment of the borrower's business as an element of the credit risk management - Mikhail Kornienko, Head of the projects, Department for business and intangible assets Assessment, NEO Centre Consulting Group, Moscow
  • Integrated risk-management - IBM approach - Roman Surgund, Head of Division for Decisions Supply at Financial Sector, IBM Company
Workshop 3. The Central Bank of Russian Federation Celebrating its 150th Anniversary

Co-Chairmen:
                    Georgy Luntovsky - First Vice-Chairman, Bank of Russia, Moscow
                    Sergey Golubev - Vice-Chairman of Bank of Russia, Director of Legal Department, Moscow
                    Valery Tkachenko, Chief Auditor, Bank of Russia, Moscow
                    Sergey Tatarinov, Director, External and Public Relations Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
    Speeches by:
  • The state bank in the economic system of S.Vitte - Boris Ananyich, Saint-Petersburg Institute of History under the Russian Academy of Science, Saint-Petersburg
  • Struggling for the Golden rouble: state bank and money circulation in Russia during 1904-1913 - Yury Petrov, Head of Bank of Russia's History Sector, External & Public Relations Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • A comparison of the evolution of the monetary systems of Finland and Russia in the 19th century - Juha Tapio Tarkka, Adviser to the Board, Bank of Finland
  • The Bank of Poland - its history and present status - Professor Marian Zukowski, National Bank of Poland, Warsaw
  • The Central Bank of Russian Federation: history of establishment - Sergey Golubev, Vice-Chairman of Bank of Russia, Director of Legal Department, Moscow
  • Modern history of the Bank of Russia - Valery Tkachenko, Chief Auditor, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • The bank and loan science in the publications of Saint-Petersburg scientists in XIX-XXth cc. - Galina Beloglazova, Head of the Chair "Banking", Saint-Petersburg State University for Economics and Finance, Saint-Petersburg
  • Cash turnover: yesterday, today and tomorrow - Alexander Yurov, Director, Cash Circulation Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Myths and realities of the State Banknote Bank building of the Russian Empire - Vera Amosova, Assistant Professor, Chair of General-Economic Theory, Saint-Petersburg State University for Economics and Finance, Saint-Petersburg
  • History of the establishment of 2-level banking system in Russia (USSR) - Leonid Demchuk, Head, Organization-Economic division, Banking regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Foreign capital in Russian banks: history and contemporaneity - Vadim Pivovarov, Deputy Head, Main Board of Bank of Russia for Saint-Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg
  • Settlement divisions of the state bank in the early XXth century and their role in the mutual clearing offset - Alexander Bugrov, Chief expert, External & Public Relations Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Museum fund of the Bank of Russia and its role in the corporate culture establishment - Tatiana Voevodskaya, Head of Division for Analysis and Forecasts, External & Public Relations Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Development of the Bank of Russia's inspection work - Vladimir Sokolov, Deputy Head, Chief Inspectorate of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Bank of Russia: international cooperation - Alexey Chernov, Deputy Director, International Financial & Economic Relations Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Payment system of the Bank of Russia. Online gross settlements system - BESP - state of the art and prospects - Timur Batyrev, Director, Payment System Regulation, Management & Monitoring Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
Workshop 4. Up-to-date Trends in Banking Business Development

Co-Chairmen:
                    Mikhail Sukhov - Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
                    Oleg Ivanov - Vice-President, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
                    Sergey Shvetsov, Director, Department for Financial Markets Operations, Bank of Russia, Moscow
    Speeches by:
  • Banking sector consolidation: problems and prospects - Mikhail Sukhov, Director of the Department for Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Development of the settlement-depositary infrastructure - Sergey Shvetsov, Director, Department for Financial Markets Operations, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Protection of the retail banking customers rights - Oleg Ivanov, Vice-President, Russian Regional Banks Association (Association "Russia"), Moscow
  • Banking supervision and its impact on banking development - Vladimir Chistyukhin, Deputy Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Retail banking products (electronic money) - new opportunities - Yury Maltsev, First Deputy General Director, Mosclearingcenter, Moscow
  • Crediting of a real sector of economy: ways of the decision of a problem - Julia Shadrina, The chief of department on work with financial institutions and state sector, HSBC Bank (RR), Moscow
  • Topical issues of banking information security - Andrey Kurilo, Deputy Head, Department for Security and Information Protection, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Topical issues of retail payment systems in the Russian Federation: infrastructure, payment instruments, trends and innovations - Vadim Kuznetsov, Head of the Retail Payments Board, Settlements regulation Department, Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Payment terminal in the bank context: how to choose the correct strategy and to avoid mistakes - Dmitry Golovan, Managing director, "e-Kassir", "Kassira.Net" Payment system (PSKB payment system), Saint-Petersburg
  • Automation technologies of cash centers - Alexey Yerasov, Head of Project Management Department, Giesecke & Devrient LOMO, ZAO, Saint-Petersburg
  • Money transfers. New products and technologies for banks - Vladimir Filipenkov, Head of the Sales Development Department for RF bank partners, Bank "Unistream", Moscow
  • Improvement of business processes based on common bank service center - Sergey Kostrikov, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, Moscow
  • Topical issues of inspection information support - Rinat Yarulin, Head of Division, Chief Inspectorate of the Bank of Russia, Moscow
  • Major world trends of the CRM market development. Ideas for business optimization at banks and financial institutions - Irina Budaeva, Head, Promotion of business solutions to financial sector, Microsoft - Russia Corporation
  • SOA - an instrument for effective business development - Dmitry Zubarev, Vice-President, Director of Department "Settlements and Main book", Diasoft Company, Moscow
  • Saas offering in a private Cloud Computing environment to access innovations - Philippe Schintowski, Senior Vice-President, SAB, Fontenay-sous-Bois
  • Data analysis and organization of information environment for optimizing sales and customer service - Andrey Trifonov - Department development manager for large financial institutions, Microsoft - Russia Corporation
  • New trends in banks automation, its reflection at R-Style Softlab Services - Oleg Agafoshin, Department for Banking software, R-Style Softlab, Moscow
15.00 - 16.00 Lunch (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
16.00 - 17.00 Final plenary session, presentations by Co-Chairmen on the results of Workshop sessions (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
17.00 - 17.30 Press Conference (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
17.00 - 18.00 Chess Tournament (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
19.00 Bankers Ball (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
Day 4, Saturday, May 29th, 2010
8.00 - 10.00 Breakfast (Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel)
Departure of the Congress participants

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