Annual Financial Lunch - Sponsored by

With Guest Speaker: Helen Alexander, President of the CBI.

Prior to her current appointment Helen Alexander was Managing Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit and Chief Executive of the Economist Group. READ ON

THEME: Financial reform, how to deliver stability without jeopardising the city's and Europe's competitiveness.

There is more or less universal agreement about the need to reform the financial system to prevent a repeat of the recent crisis.  There is rather less agreement on what those reforms should look like. Helen will set out priorities for financial reform - starting with better management of systemic risk, but also to ensure banks are in a position to finance the recovery and to maintain Europe's and the City's position as a leading global financial centre. To achieve this, she will set out a route map for financial reform set against three important tests. One, do they deliver better management of systemic risk, to reduce the economic impact and exposure of the public purse in the event of any future financial failure? Two, will they enable financial services firms to play an efficient role in the economy and finance the recovery, supporting businesses and consumers? And three, are they internationally coordinated to be effective and avoid undermining the competitiveness of individual countries, and harming their economies?

We would like to thank our Guest of Honor and Speaker Helen Alexander, President of the CBI, as well as Société Générale, all the participants and the hotel.

HE Mr Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, Ian Fisher, Helen Alexander and Arnaud Vaissié.

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