New speaker for 5th Collateral Management Forum

We have a new speaker, welcome on board: Arturo Labanda Puerta Head of Market Risk Banco Santander – Spain   His topic is the following: Collateral: impact in pricing and risk management  Curve construction under collateral agreements Initial Margin in CCPs: same product but different price Initial Margin with bilateral counter-parties   >>> Go to [...]

New speakers for 4th Annual Retail Banking Forum

We have registered 3 new speakers: Usama Fayyad Chief Data Officer / Group Managing Director /CIO Risk, Finance & Treasury Technology Barclays - United Kingdom   Zoltán Paragi Third Party Sales Leader Budapest Bank – Hungary   Balazs Halasz Head of Region, Hungary-CzechSlovak Tesco PLC - Hungary   Mr. Paragi and Mr. Halasz will hold [...]

10 Epic Employee Referral Reward Boosters

Money is not working as an incentive for getting more referrals. Laszlo Bock, Google’s hiring chief wrote in his book that Google tried to increase referrals and therefore doubled its referral bonus from $2,000 to $4,000. But it didn’t help. Doubling the employee referral bonus resulted only in higher costs, with no improvement whatsoever regarding [...]

5th Annual Renewable Energy Finance in Practice Forum

5th Annual Renewable Energy Finance in Practice Forum 20-21 October 2016 Austria Trend Hotel Savoyen Vienna Vienna - Austria Upcoming Events Learning Outcomes Learn about the current European Renewable Energy Market Gain an insight into the emerging storage projects Find out the newest alternative [...]

5th HR Minds Forum

5th HR Minds Forum 29-30 September 2016 Hotel Novotel Berlin Mitte Berlin - Germany Request Agenda Upcoming Events Hot topics Learn how to manage human capital during organisational transformations Get facts on analytical insights that help drive performance and retention Discover key challenges in talent management and practices how [...]

No Hollywood Ending For Compliance Officers As Liability Pressures Tighten

Waves of financial crash nostalgia are sweeping over us as fears of a repeat of the 2008 crisis send shockwaves through markets. Oscar hopeful "The Big Short" has hit cinemas, gently reminding us that some actually profited from the bubble which threatened to collapse major institutions until governments bailed them out. Inside an altogether different [...]

Accounting for expected credit losses under IFRS 9: Thoughts on benchmarking, calibration and the economic value

After the release of the new impairment standard in July last year, financial institutions started to crunch numbers to get a feeling of the impact of expected credit losses on their allowances. On the one hand, inclusion of lifetime losses in accounting for financial instruments is a logical and consistent step towards adequate consideration of [...]

4th Annual Retail Banking Forum

4th Annual Retail Banking Forum 2-3 June 2016 Sofitel Budapest Chain Bridge Hotel Budapest - Hungary “It was an absolute pleasure to attend the Retail Banking Forum. It was all professionally organised and managed and the speakers were varied and interesting.” “The event was very nice and I would sum up as ‘current’. Interesting [...]

5th Annual Pharma Pricing & Reimbursement Forum

5th Annual Pharma Pricing & Reimbursement Forum 10-11 March 2016 - Austria Trend Hotel Park Royal Palace Vienna, Austria Upcoming Events Hot Topics pharma forum Discover the latest trends and tendencies, that affect the market. Discover Disinvestment options of low-added value health technologies. Learn how to improve data [...]

5th Annual Collateral Management Forum

5th Annual Collateral Management Forum 02-03 June 2016 Crowne Plaza Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam - The Netherlands  “I really appreciate a good diversification of topics and choice of speakers. Also thank you for a  schedule of the event - panels were not too long to lose concentration and breaks were enough to refresh and communicate [...]