EIFR - European Institute of Financial Regulation

The current financial crisis demonstrates the urgent need for better financial-markets regulation, for a better balance between investor protection and market development. Reforms are underway, at the European and international level. They are aimed at both the process and the implementation of financial regulation.

In this context, EIFR (European Institute of Financial Regulation) was created and given two objectives: (I) to spur thinking on European financial regulation and (II) to sponsor training for the regulation's implementation.

(I) The EIFR aims to deepen current thought on the design and content of « smart» European regulation and bring together its various strains. To that end, seminars on policy refection and study will serve as a framework for the exchange of ideas and experiences between professionals, regulators, supervisors, schools, and universities. The goal is to help defne long-term trends for tomorrow's fnancial regulation. In the same spirit, the initiation, support, and monitoring of research in fnancial regulation will enrich refections on the subject.

(II) EIFR has the additional objective of strengthening and completing training offerings in financial regulation. The Institute's training sessions, resolutely centered on European regulation's impact on business lines, last from half a day to two days and are aimed at specifc audiences. They are run jointly by university professors, professionals, and regulators, for groups of no more than twenty people, in a format fostering interaction.

These objectives are central to the mission of the European Institute of Financial Regulation (EIFR).

PARTICIPANTS

EIFR aims its programs at several participants:

-Executives
Executive managers of businesses or legal entities in France and abroad, subsidiaries of financial groups, capital markets, M&A, private banking, investment-management companies, etc.

- Professionals

- Business-line operations managers (front/back office): corporate investment banking, asset management, trading, insurance, private equity.

- Managers for compliance, control, risk, operations

- Professions associated with financial businesses. Lawyers, auditors, public-sector organizations

-International professionals and regulators

EIFR TRAINING

1. Seminars on reflection and study
The seminars cover:
- the financial-regulation design process
- the comparative implementation of financial regulation within Member States
- required modifications of the content of financial regulation

2. Courses of study

Courses of study fall into four categories:

- Training in the design processes of European financial regulation .
Seminars whose purpose is to increase participants' understanding of the European regulation process and their place in that process.
- Training in the implementation of European financial regulation.
Interactive seminars: case studies, simulations, and exchanges of experience in relation to complex issues in financial regulation.
- Training in the content of European financial regulation.
Update seminars: the current state of European regulation.
Seminars for further study: analysis and commentary on AMF (French financial-markets authority) regulation.
Introductory session on European financial regulation (for BRICs).
- "Regulatory" training

EIFR benefits from the academic expertise of the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II and regulatory authorities, the AMF, the French Prudential Control Authority (ACP).

GOVERNANCE

The scientific committee determines the Institute's scientific direction. It comprises experts and internationally recognized specialists.
EIFR governance is organized around a Board of Governors, a Scientific Committee, and various Pedagogical Committees each with a special field of activity.
The Pedagogical Committees determine course content and comprise representatives of professionals, university professors, and regulators.

Composition of the Board of Governors

Chairman: Hervé SAINT-SAUVEUR

Founding members/founders

Association Française de Gestion Financière AFG --- represented by Alain LECLAIR, Chairman

Paris EUROPLACE --- represented by Arnaud de BRESSON, Managing Director

BNP Paribas --- represented by Vivien LEVY GARBOUA / Pierre Edouard NOYELLE

Crédit Agricole SA --- represented by Agnès BISCIGLIA

Dexia Crédit Local --- represented by Michel COJEAN

Fédération Française des Sociétés d'Assurances (French Federation of Insurance Companies) --- represented by Bertrand LABILLOY, Director of Economic, International, and Financial Affairs

HSBC France --- represented by Nathalie GAY-GUGGENHEIM

NYSE Euronext Group --- represented by Catherine LANGLAIS

Société Générale --- represented by Christian SCHRICKE

Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II --- represented by Hervé SYNVET, Professor

Operating management and contact
Managing Director : Edouard François de LENCQUESAING
Treasurer: Arnaud de BRESSON

39, rue Cambon 75001 Paris
e-mail : contact@eifr.eu

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