The Institute for Law and Finance’s 13th Conference on the Future of the Financial Sector will be held on a hybrid basis on the Westend Campus of Goethe University in Frankfurt on Friday, January 24, 2025 organized by Andreas Dombret, Patrick Kenadjian and Oliver Wünsch.
The conference will focus on the factors contributing to bank disintermediation and its consequences. There will be separate panels the effects of the growth of competition from non-bank financial institutions, the potential effects of the planned introduction of central bank digital currencies, the effects of regulatory reform, and the consequences of disintermediation for the transmission of monetary policy, staffed by distinguished senior representatives from the public and private sectors. The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Simon Johnson of MIT. The program will kick off with a discussion between Lord Hill, the father of the EU Capital Markets Union project and Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Société Générale, about whether the revived Capital Markets Union may prove to be a game changer.
