Tuesday, September 30, 2014

ECOBATE 2014 Wed 8th October 2014 - Free

3rd European Conference on Banking and the Economy - Open to the Interested Public

The University of Southampton Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development would like to invite you to attend the Third European Conference on Banking and the Economy (ECOBATE 2014), on Wednesday, 8 October 2014 in Winchester Guildhall, featuring, among others, Lord Adair Turner (former chairman of the FSA), Sir John Gieve (former deputy-governor of the Bank of England), Prof. John Kay (columnist in the Financial Times), Prof. Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Ralf Barkey, CEO of the Rhineland-Westphalian Association of Cooperatives.

The public part of the event will start at 3.30pm, opened by the Leader of Hampshire County Council, followed by a ‘Money Question Time’. The public part will last until about 7.30pm. Several keynote speakers will start to speak from 5pm in a session chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton.

Panelists and keynote speakers will discuss what lessons have been learnt from the financial crisis (if any), how our banking and monetary system works, and what needs to be done to ensure that banks support the local communities. For further details please see the attached flyer.


We hope to see you on Wednesday next week.

Prof. Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon)

Director, Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development and the ECOBATE Team

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