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EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP on OPERATIONAL RESEARCH in BANKING

 Eurobanking 2001 Ennis, Ireland, May 13 -16 2001

A n n u a l  C o n f e r e n c e  i n  E n n i s  (N e a r S h a n n o n  A i r p o r t )  I r e l a n d ,   M a y 1 3 -1 6  2 0 01

ABOUT EUROBANKING
Eurobanking conferences are organised by practising bankers for practising bankers.
 
Eurobanking is a non-profit-making, non-competitive professional organisation.
 
Eurobanking 2001 will be the 29th Eurobanking conference. The Eurobanking organisation does not have
formal membership. It has a National Co-ordinator in each country to act as a contact point and to ensure adequate rep-resentation of each country and to ensure the presentation of high-quality papers.
A system of quotas exist to ensure fair and adequate country representation.

Managing a Bank in the 21st Century -The European Way

Sunday Evening May 13th (Registration and welcome)

to Wednesday Lunchtime May 16th

Foot & Mouth Disease - Special Notice

The food industry is important to the Irish economy. The Eurobanking conference will observe strict compliance with government restrictions relating to Foot & Mouth Disease.  All delegates have been provided with a copy of current (April 4) guidelines.  As of this date, only one case of Foot & Mouth disease have been reported in the Republic of Ireland.  Further updates to guidelines will be found here  
ABOUT ENNIS, NEAR SHANNON AIRPORT, IRELAND
Ennis is the winning town in the Information Age competition in Ireland, and thus has qualified for very substantial community investment in IT. Originally a market town in an agricultural hinter-land, every household in this town has internet access - industry has high-speed links, and there are a number of major IT experiments in progress there.
 
Located beside Shannon Airport, in County Clare, Ennis has a wide range of amenities including golf, fishing, scenery, historic castles, good pubs. There are direct flights to Dublin, Manchester, 3 London airports, Paris, Brussels, USA, and a number of Eastern European cities.
Topics Covered
E-Banking
Performance Management
Planning & Control
Retail, Corporate & Wholesale Banking
Strategy, Management, and Marketing
Credit Risk Management*
Operational Risk Management*
Risk Management - General*
* Note: Risk papers will be presented in a separate stream in parallel with other papers.
 
Countries Presenting
Austria
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Israel
Netherlands
Slovenia
Switzerland
UK
I am delighted to preside over the organisation of what promises to be one of the most exciting conferences in the history of Eurobanking.  We have a conference program which in its breadth and depth covers an extraordinary range of issues confronting European banks in the 21st century.  It is located in the fastest growing economy in Europe.  The venue is a town where tradition meets technology head on.  I will be very pleased to give you the traditional Irish welcome of Céad Míle Fáilte (translation – ‘one hundred thousand welcomes’) to you in Ennis.
 
Tom Conlon, Chairperson, Eurobanking

Conference Program

A program of events and tours has been arranged for partners of conference delegates.  Details may be found on the Eurobanking website

Sunday May 13th  2001 6.00pm

Delegate Registration and Welcome

Introductions & Irish Cream Reception

Setting the context - Tim O Neill, Banking director, Bank of Ireland

Irish Dancing Exhibition

Dinner

Monday  14th  May 9.00am
Plenary Session – “Ennis, Impact of the Information Age Project”
Monday 14th May 9.40am
to
Wednesday 16th May 1.00pm

Parallel Sessions

Conference Stream A

Conference Stream B

Partners Program

 Day          Time                                   

Mon
9.00
Plenary Session – “Ennis, Impact of the Information Age Project” - Michael Byrne, CEO Eircom Ennis Information Age Town Project
 
 
Stream A                                                            
 Stream B
 
 
SESSION: E-Banking Session Leader: J. Minnemann
SESSION: Credit Risk I    Session Leader: A.Frachot
 
9.45
Robert Park, Associate, Ashridge Strategic Management Centre: 
E-Commerce, The Parental Perspective  UK
Nova Ljubjanska Banka-Janez Barle and Anton Zunic: On the Validation model of Banks’ Internal  Credit Risk Model                                Slovenia
 
10.30
Bank Austria-Kurt Arnegger  E-Learning for private Investment                    Austria
Credit Lyonnais-Jerome Messines: Risk Management An Empirical study on Corporate Spreads              France
 
11.15
Coffee Break
 
11.45
Bank of Ireland-Tom Conlon Developing and Implementing a Payments Strategy
                                                         Ireland
Zürcher Kantolanbank-Dr. Luc P. Seydoux: Measuring and managing of Credit Risks               Switzerland
 
12.30
National Bank of Greece-M. Pagona & D. Pavlakis Financial Sector Business models in Mobile Commerce              Greece &UK
 UBS-Beat Haag: Portfolio management of Credit Risks
Switzerland
 
1.15
Lunch
 
2.30
APACS-Nigel White Developments in the UK Plastic Card Market                     UK
Deutsche Bank-Wolfgang Schmidt: Pricing and Hedging of Basket credit Derivatives              Germany
 
 
Session: Performance Management  Session Leader: H. Van’t Zand
 
 
3.15
Commercial Bank of Greece-Petros Lyrintzis: Value Based Management in Universal Banking                           Greece
Bank of Finland-Jarmo  Pesola: The Role of Macroeconomics Shocks in Banking Crises                     Finland
 
4.15-11.15
                                                            Atlantic Tour followed by medieval banquet at Knappogue castle
 
 
 
Session: Credit Risk II Session Leader: B. Forrest
Tue.
08.30
UBS-PGoran-Pesser & Adriana Bodmer Value Based Management in Universal Banking                                    Switzerland
Convest Banka-Drago Jakovcevic: Actualisation of Credit Risk Rating Systems                        Croatia
 
9.15
National Bank of Greece- Elias Halamandaris Integrating Different Views of Performance                                 Greece
Credit Lyonnais-Etienne Marot: Risk management: Dealing with Overdrafts                             France
 
 
Session: Planning & Control  Session Leader: J. Jakobsen
 
 
10.00
Ministry of Finance Slovenia-Anda Mavec: Improving Cash Management in the environment of a Single Treasury Account                                          Slovenia
ING Groep-Pien Fransen: Building and modelling Credit Risk Rating Systems                                    NetherlandsL
 
10.45
Coffee Break
 
11.45
Allied Irish Banks-Steve Lynott: Investment prioritisation in the IT Area
 Ireland
Credit Suisse-David Cosanday: Middle  Market Credit Risk: Practical Experiences made at Credit Suisse                 Switzerland
 
12.00
RZB-Suzanne Kroiss Cost Allocation in or out of the Matrix                             Austria
UBS-Bruce Forrest: Collateral Management           Switzerland
 
12.45
Lunch
 
 
Session: Retail, Corporate, Wholesale and Investment Banking
Session Leader: G. Matthews
Session :Operational Risk   Session Leader :A. Korhonen
 
2.00
De Nederlandsche Bank-Leo de Haan: Debt or Equity. An Empirical Study of security issues by Dutch Companies      NL                                                                                             
Merita Bank-Erik Palmen: Operational Risk Management in Banking                                Finland
 
2.45
ABN AMRO Bank-Leo Kits :Scenario Analysis on Mortgages                           NL
Nova Kreditna Bank-Boza Lenik Korbar Trends in Operational Risk Management and Internal Audit                              Slovenia
 
3.30
Coffee  Break
 
 
4.00
Finnish Banker’s Association-Arto Elomaa: Household’s assets and Debt: Cross country comparison with new Eurostat financial Accounts            Finland
Erste Bank-Markus Rossmiller: Measuring Operational Risk
                                              Austria
 
 
 
Session: Market Risk & general session Leader: Jean Francois Boulier
 
4.45
AN Other The Behaviour of IPO’s in emerging markets: The case of Cyprus Popular Bank                                   Cyprus
Bank Leumi-Ruth Arad: The Management and Measurement  of Market and ALM Risks            Israel
 
 
Session: Strategic management and Marketing
Session Leader: T. Conlon
 
 
5..30
Alpha Bank-Panayotis Kapopoulos: Scale/ Scope Economics, cost efficiency and concentration rate in the Greek banking Industry                                            Greece
National Bank of Greece-Elias Halamandaris Risk Management Culture & Organisational Structure
Greece
 
7.30
Dinner at Hotel
Wed
07.30-8.45  am
Executive Committee Meeting (Working Breakfast)
 
9.00
Nordea-Jens Holten Larsen: Strategic management: A strategy which actually worked                                         Denmark
CCF-Francis Longin: Research and Innovation :Beyond the VaR
France
 
9.45
Nova Kreditina Banka Maribor- Mladen Stariha: Dilemmas in Bank strategy : Mergers, Acquisitiosn, strategic Alliances or what                                           Slovenia
Bank Hapoalim-Ephrian Toaff,, Hain Fischer & Naomi S. Belfer: Risk Management in a double CurrencyEnvironment                Israel
 
10.30
Coffee Break
 
11.00
Enskilda Securities-Jesper Brydensholt: Mega Trends and Nordic Sector Consolidation                                  Sweden
Westdeutsche Landesbanke Girozentrale-Petra Munchau Yield Forecasts Using Neo-Fuzzy Models   
                                             Germany                 
 
11.45
Conference Summing Up
 
12.15
Eurobanking 2002
 
12.30
Final  Lunch

   

Travel to Eurobanking 2001
A low-cost airline, Ryanair.com which has a major network of routes across Europe can only be booked through the internet or by phone (separate freefone in each country). Ryanair has 4 flights daily to Shannon from Stansted.  Other flight options may be booked through your regular travel agent
Hotel Accommodation
The conference will be held at the West County Hotel, Ennis Co. Clare Ireland.  Be sure to bring your swimming gear, running shorts and training shoes, as there is a major health and fitness centre in the hotel.
 
In advance of the conference
A discussion site has been established on www.clubi.ie/eurobank.  Please use this site to create discussion on any of the conference topics.  Such discussion helps to add further to the conference discussion.
Currency
Irish currency is the púnt (pronounced “poont”) and uses the symbol £. 
£1  = €1.2697. 
€1  = £0.787564
Conference Presenters – April 7 is a key date for your diary
We are anxious to create the most effective conference manual including copies of all presentation material.  Accordingly, please try to let us have by April 7 the following:-
  • Abstract of your paper (if not already supplied)
  • Presentation slides – Powerpoint preferred, by email to conlon@eurobanking.ie. 
    • Note:- if possible, please compress Powerpoint files using the Powerpoint Pack and Go facility before you email it – (you will normally find the Pack and Go under the file menu of Powerpoint – if it is not installed, you will be prompted to install it).  Pack and Go will create a file called pngsetup – this is the compressed file which should be sent to us.
  • Presentation text – Microsoft Word preferred, by email
 
Any material supplied on paper or disk should be addressed to:-
Nikii Warner – Conference Organiser – Eurobanking Ennis
Bank of Ireland Retail Payments
Ballymoss House, Ballymoss Road
Sandyford Industrial Estate
Dublin 18   IRELAND
Tel +353 1 2949198  Fax +353 1 2949260