19th International Banking Congress, May 26-29, 2010, Saint-Petersburg
"Growth and Stability of the Banking System: Searching for Optimum"
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 - 09.30 Official opening and welcome addresses to the XIXth International Banking Congress by:
                    Russian Federation’s Presidential Envoy in the North-West Federal District
                    Governor of Saint-Petersburg
09.30 - 10.00 Speech by Chairman of the Central Bank of Russian Federation
10.00 - 18.00 Speeches by representatives of Russian and foreign banks, international financial institutions, bank unions and associations, auditors, consulting and IT-companies on the following issues:
  • Strategies of the banking and financial sector development in today's conditions;
  • Components of the success: management, capital, liquidity…;
  • Banks and business: new aspects of interaction;
  • Crediting of the real sector of economy: problems and their solutions;
  • State support of the banking and financial systems under economic instability: international experience;
  • Is the crisis a time for investments?
  • New banking products and technologies;
  • Risk management: problems and their solutions;
  • Problem of the bad assets and of its solutions;
  • Increase of the Russian rouble international attractiveness and expansion of its uses in international settlements;
  • Currency policy of the central banks in new conditions;
  • Non-credit institutions on the banking services market;
  • Establishment of the national payment system: state of the art and prospects;
  • Banking regulation and supervision: state of the art and outlook;
  • State support of individual segments of economy (mortgage, small and medium business): Russian and international experience

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

    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • Interaction between the financial and real economy sectors;
  • Lessons of the financial crisis for the banking system;
  • Development vectors of the Russian financial system;
  • Sources of the long money in Russia;
  • Stock market role after the crisis;
  • Role of the external sources of financing for the Russian banking system;
  • Development banks: international and Russian experience;
  • Small, medium business and banks;
  • Banks - Mortgage - Building;
  • Derivatives market: today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow;
  • Establishment of the national payment system.
Workshop 2. Banking Risks after the Crisis: Management, Regulation, Supervision

    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • Individual risks: lessons to be learned from the crisis (innovations in risk management and supervision);
  • System risks and role of supervisory bodies in their restriction;
  • Counter-cyclic regulation: macro- and microaspects;
  • Stress testing: new tasks, new approaches;
  • Risk assessment on the consolidated basis as an essential element of the management and internal control systems;
  • Supervision of the banking holdings and conglomerates: state of the art, problems and prospects;
  • Innovations in the asset assessment using the market value and depreciated cost approaches;
  • Legal support of the banking regulation and banking supervision: state of the art and prospects;
  • Market risk in terms of world markets volatility;
  • Up-to-date methods of the transaction risk assessment;
  • Interaction of banks and credit history bureaus;
  • Credit portfolio management under economic instability;
  • Bank and borrower: who is right?
  • Assessment of the borrower's business as an element of the credit risk management.
Workshop 3. The Central Bank of Russian Federation Celebrating its 150th Anniversary

    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • The history of establishment of the Central Bank of Russian Federation;
  • The first Russian banks;
  • Bank of Russia: from the Russian empire to our time;
  • The history of 2-level banking system establishment;
  • Distinguished financiers;
  • The Central Bank of Russian Federation: ordeal by the crisis;
  • The history of bank notes: the past, present and future;
  • Foreign capital in Russian banks: history and our time;
  • Online settlements system: state of the art and prospects;
  • Bank of Russia: international cooperation;
  • New technologies of cash handling;
  • Museums of the Bank of Russia and their role in the corporate culture establishment;
  • International Banking Congresses in Saint-Petersburg: discussions, traditions, significance.
Workshop 4. Up-to-date Trends in Banking Business Development

    The following issues were discussed in detail:
  • Upgrading of the business processes and banking services;
  • Competitiveness of banks under globalization;
  • System of the distant banking services: state of the art and prospects;
  • Methods to provide security of financial transactions;
  • Trends in electronic banking market;
  • Evolution of architecture of automated banking systems;
  • Topical issues of banking information security;
  • Corporate governance upgrading;
  • Aspects of private payment systems development;
  • New possibilities of bank retail services;
  • Debt collection: collector agencies on the banking services markets;
  • Universalizaton, specialization and consolidation in banking sector: issues, solutions, trends;
  • Personnel upgrading as a factor imperative to the banking quality.
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

Organizers reserve the right to amend the programme.

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