Mr. Jerzy Pruski, President of the BFG Management Board, and Mr. Krzysztof Broda, Deputy President of the BFG Management Board, took part in the European Financial Congress, which was held in Sopot, Poland, on June 22-24 in Sopot.
The 5th European Financial Congress focused on the themes of: security and development of the banking system, challenges for the development of the capital market, value-based management of enterprises and sustainable financing of infrastructure. Eminent experts from all over the world took part in the discussions. The main theme of this year’s Congress was – European integration in the face of a security crisis.
During the plenary session at the Congress opening, Mr. Marek Belka, President of the National Bank of Poland, delivered a keynote speech on moral hazard on the financial markets. Mr. Mateusz Szczurek, Polish Minister of Finance, presented arguments for and against the Poland’s entry into the Eurozone. President of the BFG Management Board took part in the Oxford-Style debate titled “Being in Eurozone is worth it”, where arguments were also presented by Mr. Dariusz Rosati, prof. Dariusz Filar, prof. Zdzisław Krasnodębski, prof. Andrzej Sławiński and Mr. Stefan Kawalec.
Bank Guarantee Fund was a partner of the panel “Resolution – Implementation and challenges”, moderated by prof. Jan Szambelańczyk, Member of the BFG Council, with the participation of Mr. Krzysztof Broda, Deputy President of the BFG Management Board. The key issues of the debate centred on a few problems:
– Key conditions for the effectiveness of the resolution process from domestic and cross-border perspective;
– The most important identified constraints influencing the feasibility of resolution.
Final recommendations of the 5th European Financial Congress are available at: www.efcongress.com/aktualnosci.
