25th Anniversary Meeting of Eurobanking

Rome May 5-7, 1999

Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Host:-   Associazione Bancaria Italiana

Italian Banking Association

Eurobanking Chairperson:  Aida Maisano

• The "EURO age": convergency trends and restructuring opportunities in European banking ......Giuseppe Zadra, General Manager, Italian Banking Association

STREAM A

Chairman, Jonathan Flowers, Natwest Consultancy (England)

• Capital Management in Banking: constraints and opportunities for European banks:- Massimo Roccia, Italian Banking Association (Italy) www.abi.it
• Information and decision in Portuguese banks: the challenge of the EMU - Manuel Joao Pereira, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (Portugal) www.porto.ucp.pt
• To build up private banking in a deposit bank:- Risto Murto, Opstock Bankers (Finland) www.osuuspankki.fi/oko/default.asp?kieli=3
• Strategic options for small banks in Europe:- Claudia Pasquini, Italian Banking Association (Italy) www.abi.it
• UK perspectives on sustainable strategic success:- Jonathan Flowers, Natwest Consultancy (England) www.natwest.co.uk/
• Cross-Border merger - can it succeed?:- Markku Pohjola, MeritaNordbanken (Finland) www.meritanordbanken.com/
• Financial liberalisation in a small open economy.  Structural adjustment and strategic repositioning.  The case is Cyprus:-  Ionannis Tirkides, Cyprus Popular Bank (Cyprus) www.cypruspopularbank.com
• The development of a bank network in the 'Balkan and Black Sea countries':- Constanine Kanonis,  Commercial Bank of Greece (Greece)

Chairman:- John (Ionannis) Tirkades, Cyprus Popular Bank (Cyprus)

• ABI observatory on customer satisfaction in banking - Analysis of the competitive positioning and benchmarking system :_ Luisa Bajetta, Italian Banking Association (Italy) www.abi.it
• The implementation of modern marketing in a decentralised branch banking system.  The experience of the 3rd Regional Administration of the National Bank of Greece.  A view from the battle front:- Emmanuel J Alifantis, National Bank of Greece (Greece) www.ethniki.gr/
• The introduction of benchmark in the Italian provisions relating to pension funds, individual portfolio management, and undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities: implications for intermediaries :_  Angela Maria Bracci, Italian Banking Association (Italy) www.abi.it

Chairman:- Joachim Minnemann, Westdeutsche Landesbank (Germany)

• Database marketing Applications in the Italian banking sector :- Susanna Ercoli, Banca Popolare di Lodi (Italy)
• Alpha Direct: an innovative platform for the evolution of a PC-based delivery channel in remote banking:-  Dimitrios Michalitsianos and Dimitrios Stamoulis, Alpha Credit Bank, (Greece)  www.alpha.gr
• Providing a special controlling instrument for the corporate customer division - Margit Steurer Szigeti, Bank Austria (Austria) www.bankaustria.com
• IT project controlling - Susanne Kroiss, Raiffesen Zentralbank Osterreich (Austria)
• Banking Association's Bank Barometer: construction and use in forecasting - Arto Elomaa, The Finnish Bankers Association (Finland) www.pankkiyhdistys.fi/english/index.html

Chairman:- Hans van't Zand, ABN-AMRO Bank(Netherlands)

• Cash Management and choice of payment media .  A critical survey of the theory - C. K. Folkertsma - De Nederlandsche Bank (Netherlands) www.dnb.nl/index.htm
• Simulation Modelling of CHAPS Euro volumes and liquidity requiremenrts - Katherine Pakenham, APACS (England)

STREAM B

Chairman:- Antti Korhonen, Helsinki School of Economics (Finland)

• Methods of calculating interest and European Union:- Petra Buitinck, Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (Germany) www.westlb.de/
• Managing Banking Deposits:- Nicolas Gaussel, Credit Commercial de France (France)
• Approaches to managing savings accounts:- Ruedi Wettstein-Gloor, Zurcher Kantonalbank (Switzerland) www.boersenspiel.ch/
• Liquidity risk management at a universal bank:- Andreas Wittwer, UBS (Switzerland) www.ubs.com/

Chairman:- Bruce Forrest, Swiss Banking Corporation (Switzerland)

• Risk Management Survey :Elias Halamandaris, National Bank of Greece (Greece) www.ethniki.gr/
• Sample methods for risk audit:- Pierre George, Credit Lyonnais (France) www.creditlyonnais.com/
• From risk control to risk management: optimal hedging of commercial assets:-  Vittorio Maggiolini, Banca Commerciale Italiana (Italy) www.bcipa.com/home.asp

Chairman:-Alain Charmant, Credit Lyonnais (France)

• Optimising credit risk management in start-up situations:- Zoran Bohacek, Croatian Institute for Banking and Insurance (Croatia)
• Credit Derivatives, an introduction.  Jan E Jakobsen, Unibank (Denmark) www.unibank.com/
• Credit Rating at ABN-AMRO:- Hans Van't Zand, ABN-AMRO (Netherlands) www.abnamro.com/
• A multi-factors model for credit spreads:- Claire Gauthier and Sandrine Lardic, Credit Commercial de France (France)
• The Confidence Factor Model:-  John Waterman, Export Credits Guarantee Department (England) www.ecgd.gov.uk/

Chairman:- Jean Francois Boulier, Credit Commercial de France (France)

• Risk scenarios for variable rate products:- Rainer Haberle and Per-Goran Persson, UBS (Switzerland) www.ubs.com/
• Value-at-risk model for cross-border risk:- Hildegard Montsma, ABN-AMRO (Netherlands) www.abnamro.com/
• Exchange rate, interest rate, and stock market price volatility for value-at-risk analysis:- Monica Ahlstedt, Bank of Finland (Finland) www.bof.fi
• Validations for the capital market Division - Fatima Aissaoui, Credit Lyonnais (France) www.creditlyonnais.com/
• Incorporating market liquidity constraints in Value-at-risk - Per-Goran Persson and Rainer Haberle, UBS (Switzerland) www.ubs.com/
• Methods to decrease Economic capital usage with the same daily VaR limits - Christoph Wiesmayr, Erste Bank (Austria) www.erste-bank.com/

Plenary Session