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9/12 Plenary Session Scuderie di Palazzo Altieri
Opening Remarks and Guests of Honour: L. Abete, P. Gentiloni, G. Conte
Europe’s Main Challenge: Financing Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth: F. M. Castaldo, R. Gualtieri, M. Cole-Fontayn, F. Demarigny, J. M. González-Páramo, D. Marsh, M. Nava, D. Wright, P. Garonna
9/12 Stream sessions Sala Lettura
Making the EMU Work: Redressing Imbalances and Promoting Growth: M. Belka, T. Christiansen, A. de Bresson, M. Ungaro, N. Véron, D. Focarelli
Sustainable Finance for Growth and Welfare: S. Corbello, D. D’Andrea, A. Massari, A. Panda, A. Ravazzi Douvan, A. Benassi
9/12 Stream session Sala Verde
Banking Union and CMU: G. Bernardino, G. Bertezzolo, S. Gatti, V. Ross, G. Sabatini, A. Gervasoni
Financing Long-Term Investments in Infrastructure: S. Camerano, A. Clerici, M. Deandreis, A. Oliveti, S. Rovere, L. Zylberberg, F.Bassanini, video interview R. Viola
10/12 Plenary session Scuderie di Palazzo Altieri
State of the Art and Perspectives of the Italian Financial Industry. Vision, Opportunities, Reforms
Vincenzo Boccia, Maria Bianca Farina, Antonio Patuelli, Luigi Abete
10/12 Stream sessions Sala Lettura
Leverage Finance and Alternative Financing: C. De Franceschi, D. Ferrazzi, F. Lione, L. Pizzimiglia, F. Seganti, G. Rizzuti; Cybersecurity and Anti Money Laundering: C. Cola, C. Giustozzi, J. Greenbaum, R. Stasi, E. Farris; Building Trust and Credibility in Finance: P. V. Dastoli, G. Di Gaspare, P. Garonna, M. La Torre, G. Maggi, C. Segre, G.Ghisolfi
10/12 Stream Sessions Sala Verde
Focus on SMEs, Industrial Clusters and Innovation: G. Carnovale, P. Poletto, G. Riccio, L. Scatena, P. Stra, F. Brunori; The European Financial Market Regulation: The Impact of MiFID: G. Laffineur, D. Sabatini, R. Watson; Technical Change and Profitability: Fintech and Insurtech: K. Grandl, M. di Tria, M.Ghiglioni, G. Giambelluca, L. Oliva, P. Gaggi
10/12 Final Plenary session Scuderie di Palazzo Altieri
New Rules and Institutions for a Fair and Effective New Global Financial Order: A. Corinti, M. di Tria, S. Fabbrini, F. Mazzaferro, F. Nelli Feroci, B. Spitz, P. Garonna
Video Interviews at Rome Investment Forum 2019
Part 1: L. Abete, M. Nava, F. M. Castaldo, E.Rossi, V. Ross, A. Clerici, M. Deandreis, A. Benassi, D. Baldino
Video Interviews at Rome Investment Forum 2019
Part 2: V. Boccia, M. B. Farina, G. Carnovale, F. Brunori, F. Seganti, M. di Tria, M. Ghiglioni, G. Giambelluca, P. Dastoli, P. Garonna, S. Giorgio
Concept note
The event
The Rome Investment Forum 2019 is the sixth edition of the annual international conference focused on investments as a long-term driver of development and economic growth organized by the Italian Banking Insurance and Finance Federation (FeBAF). The 2019 edition will be held in Rome on December 9 and 10, 2019 at Scuderie di Palazzo Altieri and is organised in cooperation with the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME).
Main Topics
- Europe’s Main Challenge: Financing Investment in Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth
- Making the EMU Work: Redressing Imbalances and Promoting Growth
- Banking Union and CMU: How to Bring Them Forward in a Post-Brexit and Pan-European Perspective
- Financing Long-Term Investments in Infrastructure: the Role of Institutional Investors and PPPs
- Sustainable Finance for Growth and Welfare
- State of the Art and Perspectives of the Italian Financial Industry. Vision, Opportunities, Reforms
- Leverage Finance and Alternative Financing Opportunities
- Focus on SMEs, Industrial Clusters and Innovation: Financing Challenges
- The European Financial Market Regulation: The Impact of MiFID
- Cybercrime, Money Laundering, Global Relations: How to Secure Compliance
- Building Trust and Credibility in Finance: Independence, Accountability, Ethics and Responsiveness to Social Demands
- Facing the Challenges of Technical Change and Profitability: Fintech and Insurtech
- New Rules and Institutions for a Fair and Effective New Global Financial Order
Draft Programme
9.30 – Welcome registration and networking
10:45 – Opening remarks
Opening remarks: Luigi Abete (Chairman Italian Banking Insurance and Finance Federation – FeBAF)
Keynote address: Paolo Gentiloni (EU Commissioner for Economy)
Guest of Honour: Giuseppe Conte (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy)
11:30 – 13:30 Plenary Session
Europe’s Main Challenge: Financing Investment in Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth
- How and why financial development supports growth and stability, not only within the EU, but also in the wider Pan-European space
- EMU, Banking Union and CMU will be reviewed for enhancing their contribution to redressing imbalances and creating jobs and welfare in Europe and in the world economy
- Towards a new competition policy to increase competitiveness
- The new Union’s Financial Framework 2021-2027
Introductory remarks: Fabio Massimo Castaldo (Vice President European Parliament)
Keynote address: Roberto Gualtieri (Italian Minister of Economy and Finance)
13:30 – 14:45 break
14:45 – 16:00 Stream sessions
- A European Safe Asset and the international role of Euro
- The issue of public debts and their financing
- Fiscal capacity and fiscal stabilizers for the Eurozone
- Domestic reforms for competitiveness and innovation
- Bringing down obstacles to cross-border markets and activities
- Avoiding pro-cyclicality in micro- and macro-prudential regulation
- Political obstacles for the construction of a functioning Monetary Union
- BU: overcoming ring-fencing, EDIS, profitability, review of Basel Mifid etc., risk sharing and risk reduction
- CMU: securitisation, covered bonds, tax and insolvency regimes, harmonisation of securities legislation, PEPP, etc.
- Equivalence
- Pan-European regulatory and supervisory convergence
- Cross border equity, private equity and venture capital, alternative investment markets, etc.
- Proportionality, supporting factors (SMEs, green?)
16:00 – 16:15 break
16:15 – 17:30 Stream sessions
- Public guarantees
- Advisory services, hubs and markets
- Securitisation
- Regional Promotional Institutions
- Revision of the regulatory incentive structures (Solvency and Basel)
- Tax incentives (e.g. PIR in Italy)
- InvestEU
- Digital Market Union and Energy Union
- TransEuropean networks for transport, trade facilitation, logistics, etc.
- Other regional and global initiatives (World Bank, EBRD, Belt and Road Initiative, etc.)
- Financing social infrastructure
- Green & blue finance
- ESG
- PPP for structural welfare reforms (health, long-term care, etc.)
- Financial inclusion and education
- Disaster risk reduction, resilience
17:30 – Day one conclusion
9:00 – Registration and welcome coffee
9:30 – 11:00 Plenary session
State of the Art and Perspectives of the Italian Financial Industry. Vision, Opportunities, Reforms
- The Italian economy at the crossroad of structural reforms
- Support for global value chains and foreign direct investments
- Structural change in Italian banking, insurance, and financial markets
- The Italian model of territorial banks and insurance companies
- Welfare reforms and institutional investors
- Channelling savings towards the real economy: obstacles and incentives
- The role of CDP and National Promotional Banks and Institutions
11:00 – 11:15 break
11:15 – 12:00 Stream sessions
- High Yield Bonds vs. Leveraged Loans: convergence or replacement?
- Private debt issuance
- Risk retention and CLOs
- Increased regulatory oversight of leveraged finance markets
- Covenants: where are they going?
- Future for Green HY
- Financing modernisation and employment creation: the role of SMEs in Italy and Europe
- The new competitiveness challenges: funding requirements and opportunities
- Internationalisation vs globalisation: size matters
12:00 – 12:45 Stream sessions
- Industry narrative on key policy issues including UK/EU interoperability; third country regime; transparency; market structure; investor protection; open competition
- The ongoing amendments
- The mandated (MiFID Article 90 & MiFIR Article 54) reports on MiFID that the EC is required to deliver
- MiFID issues central to third country access to the EU and Brexit preparations
- Alignment with CMU priorities and EU institutional changeover
- MiFID II Investment Research Regime and its possible impact on SMEs
- How will innovation in data and technology affect the Compliance function?
- What are the supervisory expectations around conduct, culture and personal accountability?
- What is the current framework for AML supervision, and how is it expected to evolve?
- Should the AML Directive be transformed into a Regulation to provide a more harmonised framework?
- What are the key issues identified in the AML guidance issued by the Financial Action Task Force?
- Commission review of MAR
12:45 – 14:00 break
14:00 – 14:45 Stream sessions
- Central Banks and “politics”
- International co-operation in Monetary, Fiscal and Financial Policies
- Financial ethics
- Bail-outs and bail-ins: how they affect investors’ behaviour and risk perception
- Public and private investment
- Credit unions and savings banks in relation to local communities
- Social demands and the new frontier of welfare
- What are the opportunities from new technologies (such as Cloud Computing, Distributed Ledger Technology, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence)? Where are benefits being seen today?
- How ‘fit for purpose’ is the current European regulatory perimeter for encouraging innovation and managing the risk of new technologies and market participants?
- How can incumbents and FinTechs better work together to unlock the value of new platforms and services?
- What are the potential impacts of greater market participation from FinTech and BigTech firms? What could this mean for competition, privacy, security and service offerings?
- What is the future role needed of policymakers and regulators for financial services technology and innovation to continue?
- Sandboxes
14:45 – 15:00 break
15:00 – 17:00 Plenary session
New Rules and Institutions for a Fair and Effective New Global Financial Order
- The role of the European Union in the global context
- Multilateralism, regionalism, bilateralism, unilateralism? What vision? And leadership?
- Completing the post-crisis regulatory reforms of the financial sector: what next? Implementation? Supervision?
- The influence over Neighbourhood Countries
- Relaunching the Transatlantic relationship: the financial sector perspective
- Rethinking globalisation to make it fair and sustainable for economies and societies
17:00 – Day two conference conclusion
Speakers
Accreditamento Formazione Professionale Continua
Il Rome Investment Forum è accreditato con l’Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili di Roma (ODCEC) per il riconoscimento dei crediti formativi (fino a 13 crediti) nell’ambito della formazione professionale continua (FPC).
Il Codice Cndcec del Convegno è: 163937. Altre informazioni alla pagina dell’Ordine https://www.odcec.roma.it/index.php?option=com_eventi&task=scheda&Itemid=105&id_evento=20512
Rome Investment Forum Empowers Talents
Terza edizione del RIFET (Rome Investment Forum Empowers Talents), l’iniziativa di FeBAF che premia i migliori laureati e laureandi sulle materie collegate al Rome Investment Forum. Con il patrocinio di Adeimf (Associazione dei docenti di economia degli intermediari e dei mercati finanziari e finanza d’impresa), la collaborazione di ABIFormazione (che mette in palio all’autore del miglior lavoro di tesi una partecipazione gratuita al Master Banking and Financial Diploma) e del Forum ANIA – Consumatori (che offre le sue collane di pubblicazioni). I riconoscimenti del RIFET sono stati assegnati durante la seconda giornata del Rome Investment Forum 2019. Tutti i partecipanti al concorso sono stati invitati a partecipare nelle giornate del 9 e 10 dicembre ottenendo un attestato di partecipazione e, novità di quest’anno, la possibilità di iscriversi al Banking and Financial Diploma con il 50% di sconto. Informazioni complete su modalità, tempi di partecipazione e riconoscimenti sono consultabili sul bando.