Time: 3-4 September 2009
Venue: Utrecht University School of Economics, Utrecht, Netherlands

Jointly organized with Utrecht School for Economics and sponsored by Rabobank Nederland, De Nederlandsche Bank and NIBE-SVV. SUERF is interested in contributions from the academic, central bank, banking and insurance communities for the aforementioned Colloquium which deal with the topics addressed below. Policy-oriented papers will be given preference.

Time: 7 September 2009
Venue: London, United Kingdom

Time: 19 August 2009
Venue: London EC2N 2LT, London, United Kingdom

Objectives: Understanding of how a business works financially, Understanding of financial jargon and concepts, Understanding of financial accounts and reports, The ability to participate in the budget process, Confidence to discuss and handle business matters.

Time: 20 August 2009
Venue: EQ Cocktail Bar, Islington, London, United Kingdom

This course will enable participants to understand the mechanics of handling letters of credit in simple terms from the exporter's point of view. Fifty percent of documents presented under letters of credit are rejected by the banks because of discrepancies. Participants learn what they can do, in practical terms, to improve letters of credit performance, and ensure good management and collection mechanisms.

Time: 12-13 October 2009
Venue: London, United Kingdom

A two-day case study based workshop offering a structured approach to the analysis of liquidity challenges in banks, incorporating both lessons learned from the crisis and Basel guidelines for sound liquidity management.

Time: 19-20 October 2009
Venue: Hyatt Regency Mainz, Germany

The reporting of credit is at the moment by a large number of regulatory changes present new challenges. This leads to either modified or even completely new reporting or disclosure requirements and requires at least an adaptation of existing methods but also often the implementation of new processes and systems.

Time: 19-20 October 2009
Venue: Central London, United Kingdom

The aim of this course is to provide a sound description of the fundamentals and building blocks of equity derivatives pricing theory, how this theory is implemented into useful pricing models, and then how those models should be used in the real world to price and hedge equity derivatives.

Time: 30 November - 1 December 2009
Venue: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

A workshop sponsored by the European Central Bank. This workshop aims at discussing how, why and to what extent the money market was affected by the financial turbulence and at assessing how and to what extent the non-standard measures had the intended effects while checking for a possible interference with market functioning.

Time: 7-11 September 2009
Venue: European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

There will be six workshops (on 10 September 2009), on three different topics:

• Two workshops on new payment methods – what are the issues in mobile payments?
• Two workshops on current challenges in the conduct of oversight
• Two workshops on cost recovery and pricing in central bank payment and settlement services

Time: 3-5 November 2009
Venue: London, United Kingdom

The Future of General Insurance conference is firmly established as the leading industry event, providing a platform for industry leaders to discuss the strategic direction of the sector.

Time: 14-16 April 2010
Venue: Inter Expo Center, Sofia, Bulgaria

International Congress and Exhibition on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources: Visitors from energy sector, ecology, EE and RES, ministries, municipalities, embassies, banks, financial and consultant services, media, construction, associations and NGOs, petrol and chemical industry, research and education institututions, electrical and electronic equipment, transport, consumer industry, agriculture and wood processing, mining industry.

Time: 23 November 2009
Venue: Tower Guoman, London, UK

TradeTech Liquidity is Europe's most senior level liquidity forum. Debate of The Role of the Agency Brokers versus Investment Banks at 15.35 - How to Repair the Breakdown in the Buy Side – Sell Side Relationship to Restore Credibility.