London has been the financial hub of the European Union, providing corporate, banking and financial services to the European Union.

Following the 23 June 2016 referendum vote, the British government clarified that in leaving the EU, the United Kingdom would also leave the Single Market. This conference, which took place the Monday (01 April 2019) after the scheduled Brexit Day (29 March 2019), addressed key issues on where the UK and EU stand in the field of cross-border provision of financial services.

 

Topics included inter alia:

 

- The political governance of financial services in Europe, the UK and internationally
- The implications of Brexit for the supervision of banks and insurance firms operating in both the UK and EU
- The implications of Brexit for derivatives trading and for clearing and settlement systems in a Europe with new financial borders
- The implications of Brexit for capital markets and for the fund management industry in the UK and EU.

Materials available:
Photos Programme

 

Speakers:
Wolfgang Bessler (University of Giessen)
Franco Bruni (ISPI) - speech notes
Roger Cogan (ISDA) - speech notes
Simon Gleeson (Clifford Chance)
Lex Hoogduin (LCH)
Patrick Jenkins (Financial Times)
Rosa Lastra (CCLS, QMUL and FMG)
Isabelle Mateos y Lago (BlackRock)
Manuel Metzner (Cleary Gottlieb)
Niamh Moloney (LSE)
Bob Penn (Allen & Overy) - document 1; document 2
Reinhard Schmidt (Goethe University)
Tobias Tröger (Goethe University and EBI) - slides
Clas Wihlborg (Chapman University) - slides

 

Chairs:
Harald Benink (Tilburg University)
Simeon Djankov (FMG, LSE)
Pr. Dr. Bart Joosen (EBI)
Rosa Lastra (CCLS, QMUL)
Niels Thygesen (University of Copenhagen)

The welcome address was given by Dame Minouche Shafik (Director of LSE) and the keynote speech by Charles Goodhart (Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance, FMG, LSE).

 

Charles Goodhart - slides

 

The organisers, Professor Harald Benink (Institute of Governance, Tilburg and ESFRC) and Professor Rosa M. Lastra, Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law (CCLS, QMUL, EBI, ESFRC, FMG), gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the conference by ISDA,  the European Banking Institute (EBI), CCLS (Institute of Banking and Finance) and the Financial Markets Group (FMG) of the LSE.

 

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