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| Date: | 13/01/09 |
| Title: | PayPal's Tenth Birthday Party |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
With 2009 starting on a bit of downbeat note, after the crisis of 2008, the Financial Services Club thought: what should we do to cheer everyone up? And yes, you guessed it, we decided to throw a party. But what's the point of starting the New Year with a party if you're not celebrating anything. So we decided to throw a party for PayPal as it's their tenth birthday.
Wow! Only ten years old! Yep. Just over 10 years ago, in December 1998, PayPal's origins began, with the creation of a company that has revolutionised the world of payments. A company that had competitors, and successfully fought them off. A company that began with just a few guys pushing a thought, but today boasts more than 164 million accounts worldwide in 190 markets and 17 currencies.
To celebrate PayPal's 10th birthday, the Financial Services Club is throwing a party and you are cordially invited to attend.
There will be many of PayPal's senior European management team in attendance, who will talk about what they're going to be up to for the next ten years. There will also be some birthday celebrations and a few surprises on the night too, so make sure you bring your party hat.
| Date: | 21/01/09 |
| Title: | An update on EU financial services legislation and associated initiatives |
| Speaker: | Dr. David Doyle, EU Policy Advisor on Financial Markets |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
David spoke at the Club a year ago, and gave an in-depth analysis of the progress of MiFID and SEPA, as someone who is on the inside track with Brussels. Ina return presentation, David will update us on the most pressing developments in Financial Markets regulation coming up in the near future, in particular the Capital Requirements Directive.
David is known across Europe as a leading expert on EU financial market regulation and has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the critical aspects we face today such as MiFID and SEPA. He is a former diplomat with over 20 years of service on mainland Europe and now acts as an EU Policy Advisor between Brussels, London and Paris, specialising in EU Financial Services. He is a member of the Executive Board of the joint MEP-EU industry "The Kangaroo Group" at the European Parliament, the Board of Directors of the Genesis Initiative at Westminster, and sits on the Transatlantic Business Dialogue Taskforce on Capital Markets and the Corporation of London EU Regulatory Working Group.
| Date: | 22/01/09 |
| Title: | Capital Markets Chamber - This house believes Bankers are bigger polluters than the steel plants of China |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
A debate on the green issues facing the industry
"...we cannot afford to put climate change into the international ‘pending' tray because of the present economic difficulties, as some might urge." said Gordon Brown on 10 November.
The UK's Climate Change Bill 2008 will introduce legally binding emission targets for the majority of the financial service sector. Turning lights off and not printing emails will account for some of the reduction, but how does a bank compete with a steel mill to become 26% more green?
Come and join us in a challenging discussion about whether the green debate will be won by the supply side or the demand side. Decide for yourself whether this house is right or not.
Participants will hear experts propose and discuss the motions for (CEO Europe, ITC Infotech) and against (Research Director, Eco-Efficient IT, The 451 Group) under The Chatham House Rule, then get to express their own views by voting on the key points:
- What it takes to be green
- The impact on a bank's supply chain
- Is the supply chain ready to meet the banks' needs?
| Date: | 02/02/09 |
| Title: | A Corporate's Experience of e-Invoicing |
| Speaker: | Brian Thumwood, e-Billing Programme Manager, DHL |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
Brian will discuss DHL's major pan-European rollout of e-invoicing, covering several key developments include:
- Why we decided to re-engineer the accounts payable functions
- Where were the efficiency barriers?
- Creating the electronic interface
- Achieving supplier adoption
- Measuring the results
| Date: | 10/02/09 |
| Title: | Capital Markets Chamber: A debate on resilience - This house believes that without better standards Europe's infrastructures will shatter like Humpty Dumpty |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
| Date: | 19/02/09 |
| Title: | Ian Drewery, International Banking Adviser from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
The Bank of England were the bankers of the Civil Service historically, but recently this was changed. Three departments of the Civil Service - the Chancellor's departments, the Office of the Paymaster General and HMRC, and National Savings and Investments - moved to commercial bank providers under a tendering process. This is a major change. For example, the Office of the Paymaster General looks after the 900 local authorities across Britain and so there is a major amount of operational activity. What has taken place, and how have the Government managed the process. Ian Drewery of HMRC will explain.
| Date: | 24/02/09 |
| Title: | Government Matters |
| Subject: | The UK's economic position in Europe |
| Speaker: | The Rt Hon John McFall MP, Chair of the Treasury Select Committee. |
| Venue/Time: | The discussion will take place in the House of Commons from 08.30 - 09.30. |
Background:
Ahead of the European Parliamentary elections scheduled for June 2009, the IPT, in association with The Financial Services Club will be hosting a series of breakfast briefings which will look at the European legislation which will impact directly on UK business.
The first in the series will focus on the UK's economic stance in relation to our fellow Member States of the European Union. The Rt Hon John McFall MP will discuss the UK and the EU's reaction to the financial crisis and the likelihood of joining the Eurozone in the coming years.
The briefing will include a full English breakfast and will provide opportunity for questions around the table.
The cost of the breakfast briefing is £40.00 per person.
Please book your place by completing the required sections on our request form or by contacting Lynne McDowell at lynnemcdowell@ipt.org.uk
| Date: | 24-27/02/09 |
| Title: | Media Partner with TradeTech Architecture 2009 |
| Venue: | Tower Hotel, London |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
TradeTech Architecture is Europe's largest meeting of CTOs and CIOs from the capital markets. The event brings together more than 300 senior capital markets IT executives, all of whom will be using the event's high level networking and learning opportunities to enhance the capabilities - and cost effectiveness - of their IT organisations.
For more information, visit: http://www.wbresearch.com/TradeTechArchitecture/index.asp
| Date: | 26/02/09 |
| Title: | Technology Trends |
| Chairman: | David Birch, Digital Money Forum and Consult Hyperion |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
A joint event between the Financial Services Club and Intellect, sponsored by Speechly Bircham
| Date: | 03/03/09 |
| Title: | The Future of Money |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
With money changing form so fast, it is difficult to keep pace. One minute we are all focused upon Chip&PIN, the next it's contactless payments with RFID and NFC, then it's mobile payments and who knows what tomorrow. With authentication, identification and verification issues with all of these, it is hard to know where to place your bets for the longer-term vision of money. In this keynote debate, David Birch will chair and steer a conversation to some form of conclusion on the vision of the future of money.
David Birch is a Director of Consult Hyperion, which he helped to found in 1986. Prior to this he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics. Described by The Independent newspaper in 2004 as a 'grade-A geek', and by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation in 2005 as 'one of the most user-friendly of the UK's uber-techies', Dave is a member of the advisory board for European Business Review and UK correspondent to the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce.
He has lectured to MBA level on the impact of new information and communications technologies, written for publications ranging from the Parliamentary IT Review to Financial World and is well-known for his more than 100 "Second Sight" columns in The Guardian's Online supplement. He is a media commentator on electronic business issues and has appeared on BBC television and radio, Sky and other channels around the world.
He is also known as a great blogger at the Digital Money Forum and Digital Identity Forum, which can be found at http://digitaldebateblogs.typepad.com/digital_money/ and http://digitaldebateblogs.typepad.com/digital_identity/ respectively.| Date: | 10/03/09 |
| Title: | Capital Markets Chamber: A debate on record keeping - This house believes that records and their safe keeping don't matter |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |
| Date: | 19/03/09 |
| Title: | Supply Chain Forum |
| Registration: | Member or Non-Member * |