Topics: 1. How to reach scale in small markets; 2. The business case for inclusive insurance; 3. Inclusive insurance lessons from the pandemic crisis; 4. Digital solutions for inclusive insurance ; 5. Innovative distribution ; 6. Coping with climate risk; 7. Regulation; 8. Gender-sensitive...

Conference program: Panel 1: Lessons being learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis; Panel 2: Climate change risk in financial markets; Panel 3: A changing clearing landscape.

Day 1 - 2 November 2020 "Inclusive insurance amidst a pandemic" ; Day 2 - 3 November 2020 "Inclusive insurance against climate risks" ; Day 3 - 4 November 2020 "How to reach scale and develop inclusive insurance markets"; Day 4 - 5 November 2020 "New products and solutions to increase insurance...

Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The aim of the workshop is to exchange views and share experiences related to the emerging concept of macroprudential stance, i.e. the approaches used by policymakers to formulate the macroprudential actions they take to achieve financial stability. The focus will be on the European Union and...

The Risk Theory Society is a group of economists, financial economists, and actuaries who undertake theoretical and applied research in the areas of insurance economics, financial economics related to insurance markets, actuarial science, and more generally in the economic analysis of risk and...

The microinsurance sector has experienced persistent growth in client outreach and premium volumes over the past ten years. Today, nearly 300 million low-income citizens in developing countries are covered by an insurance policy. New technologies are boosting market coverage. In Asia alone, the...

The Barcelona Banking Summer School offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and...

The programme will include policy and academic sessions on the following themes: - Payment choice and global payments - Retail payments in a digital era - faster, cheaper, easier? - User experience, behaviour and trust in retail payments - Innovators, regulators and the competition-cooperation...