The Swiss banking industry is in a transition: asset management should become a new pillar of the Swiss financial center. But Swiss banks are facing strong competition from traditional asset management hubs. How can the Swiss financial industry master this challenge and find the solutions that...

The conference brings together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors, and features keynote speakers Darrell Duffie (Stanford University) and Richard Berner (US Office of Financial Research). Questions for discussion will include: - How do global interconnections arise, and what...

This conference is dedicated to special topics in credit risk measurement and management as well as to the discussion of causes and impacts of events on international financial markets and current regulatory activities in the field. Topics: - Credit analysis and credit ratings - Credit portfolio...

This small, informal conference features high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

The overall theme will be people and new technologies which are clearly the driving factors for the future of Swiss banking. Two parallel sessions will be offered in order to cover both topics. A panel discussion in German focusing on the positive combination of human and technological capital...

Sub­mis­sions can be on any topic in Eco­nom­ics, Finance or Man­age­ment Sci­ence as related to risk and insur­ance.

We welcome papers from financial and business historians, but also from historians of social sciences, especially actuarial historians. Papers should cover aspects of the emergence of modern risk management in insurane and banking from the 1950s until today.

The conference will focus on the growing complexity and sophistication of them multiple regulatory and supervisory regimes in insurance around the globe. Topics will include: - Global systemically important insurers: issues, policies and challenges after designation - Macroprudential oversight...

Interested researchers are invited to submit theoretical or empirical research papers related to security market regulation and financial market reform.