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EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue
This annual event is co-hosted by Afore Consulting and the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA). Serving as the private stakeholder event, the Dialogue will take place on 29 February 2024, the day after the EU-Asi...
Read more8th Annual FinTech and Regulation Conference
Virtual event Afore Consulting’s 8th Annual FinTech and Regulation Conference will take place on Tuesday 30 January 2024. Please find the programme here. Speakers include: Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Finan...
Read moreAfore Consulting Sustainable Finance Workshop
Afore Consulting would like to invite you to our Sustainable Finance Workshop “Making pathways to the green transition credible- the role of technology and assumptions” that will take place in a virtual format on Wednesday 13 December from 10.30....
Read moreEPIF 8th Annual Conference 2023
The 8th Annual European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF) Conference “Delivering an integrated payment experience” took place on Wednesday 15 November as an in-person event in Brussels. Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financ...
Read moreWebinar: China’s Securities Markets – 2023 Update
On 6 September, we hosted a webinar on current policy and regulatory developments in China’s securities markets. We zoomed in on equity, bond and fixed-income markets and also discussed Swap Connect. Local experts from our member companies helped e...
Read moreAfore Consulting Sustainable Finance Workshop
Afore Consulting organised the Sustainable Finance Workshop which will took place in a virtual format on Wednesday 21st June from 9 am to 1 pm CET. The implementation of the EU sustainable finance framework has already kicked in for some issues an...
Read more7th Annual FinTech and Regulation Conference
Virtual event Afore Consulting’s 7th Annual FinTech and Regulation Conference took place on Tuesday 7 February and Wednesday 8 February 2023 for a full two-day programme. This was a virtual event bringing together senior policy makers and indust...
Read moreEPIF Roundtable on the SPAA Scheme
The European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF) hosted a virtual Roundtable discussion on the new SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) Scheme on Friday, 16 December from 10.00 to 12.30 CET. The SPAA Scheme builds on the legal and regulatory requ...
Read moreNet Zero Pledges – a pathway towards transition
Afore Consulting and the UN High Level Expert Group on Net Zero Pledges jointly hosted a full day seminar on Net Zero Pledges which took place in a virtual format on Thursday 8 December 2022 from 9:00-17:00 (Brussels time). We were delighted for j...
Read moreEPIF 7th Annual Conference 2022 Making the seamless payments experience a reality
The 7th Annual European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF) Conference, Making the seamless payments experience a reality took place on Tuesday 15 November in Brussels from 9.00am in the morning. We were delighted to have with us Mairead...
Read moreAfore Consulting Sustainable Finance Workshop
Afore Consulting organised the Sustainable Finance Workshop which took place in a virtual format on Wednesday 6 July 2022 from 9:00-13:00 (Brussels time). With the EU sustainable finance agenda moving towards an implementation phase our workshop a...
Read more8th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue
ASIFMA and Afore Consulting were proud to co-host the 8th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue, taking place on Monday, 28 March 2022 from 8:00-12:00 (CEST/GMT+2) / 14:00-18:00 (GMT+8) and took the form of a virtual event. The Dialogue takes plac...
Read more6th Annual FinTech and Regulation Conference
We were delighted to organise our Sixth Annual Conference on FinTech and Digital Innovation that took place virtually on 8 and 9 February 2022. Our two-day virtual conference explored some of the pressing policy and regulatory challenges faced by...
Read moreEPIF 6th Annual Conference 2021 – “Payments 2.0: Delivering the European Single Market”
We were delighted to invite you to the 6th Annual European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF) Conference “Payments 2.0: Delivering the European Single Market’. This event took place virtually on 16th and 17th November 2021 and brought toge...
Read moreAIG Global Trade Series Event
Afore Consulting is proud to partner with the AIG Global Trade Series in a discussion on the future of the EU trade policy with Sabine Weyand, Director General of DG Trade, Bernd Lange, Chair of the International Trade Committee in the European Parli...
Read moreITFA seminar on eID for trade finance
Afore Consulting is proud to partner with the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) in a discussion on the evolution of financing and shipping of cargo globally, as well as the growing importance of introducing digital documentation i...
Read moreEU TAXONOMY WORKSHOP SERIES
The EU is on the verge of adopting its first Climate Taxonomies on climate change mitigation and adaptation. In addition, the Platform on Sustainable Finance was expected to finalise its recommendations on the taxonomies for the remaining four enviro...
Read more7th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue
Afore Consulting and ASIFMA co-hosted the 7th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue on 12 March 2021 as a virtual event. For the 2021 event, we were delighted to have with us the following speakers: E. Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Minister of Fin...
Read more5th Annual Conference on FinTech and Regulation
The Fifth Annual Afore Consulting Conference on FinTech and Regulation took place as an online event between 2 and 4 February 2021. The 2021 conference focused on the themes of: The challenges around digital identification and on-boarding...
Read more4th Annual Conference on Fintech and Regulation
Afore Consulting held its 4th Annual Fintech and Regulation Conference on 3 March 2020. Working closely with the European Commission we identified four main themes for this conference. These were: how to best organise from a regulatory and supervi...
Read moreSustainable Finance
4 December 2019: Sustainable Finance Workshop: An EU taxonomy in practice – Making the Transition Work Afore Consulting organised the third Sustainable Finance Workshop: An EU taxonomy in practice on 4 December 2019. This high level workshop f...
Read more6th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue
The 6th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue took place on 10 October 2019 in Tokyo, bringing together over 150 representatives of the regulatory, supervisory and financial industry communities of the EU, Asia-Pacific and the United States. The Dia...
Read moreSustainable Finance Workshop
The aims of this workshop were to analyse the strengths and possible challenges in introducing an EU-wide taxonomy on green finance, discuss whether it should be based on the EIB approach, and assess how such a taxonomy would help investors. In t...
Read more3rd Annual Conference on ‘Taking Innovation to the next level”
Afore Consulting held the 3rd Annual Conference on ‘Taking Innovation to the next level” on 26th February 2019. The keynote speakers included Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President of the European Commission, Christopher Giancarlo, Chairman of...
Read moreSustainable Finance Workshop: An EU Taxonomy in practice
The aim of this workshop was to analyse the European Commission’s taxonomy proposal and the work of the Technical Expert Group, discuss the proposal with the financial services providers as well as industry representatives and to explore how such a...
Read more5th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue
Afore Consulting and ASIFMA held the 5th Annual EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue on 1 - 2 November 2018 in Singapore, which coincided with the Singaporean Presidency of ASEAN and the annual EU-Asia-Pacific Forum on Financial Regulation organise...
Read more2nd Annual Conference on ‘Fintech and Digital Innovation: Regulation at the European level and beyond’
Afore Consulting held the 2nd Annual Conference on ‘Fintech and Digital Innovation: Regulation at the European level and beyond’ on 27th February 2018. This high level conference brought together senior policy makers and industry representati...
Read more4th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue
On 30 November 2017, Afore Consulting organised the 4th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue, which brought together over 120 representatives from the policy making, regulatory, supervisory and financial services industry communities. The 2017 edition...
Read more1st Annual Conference Fintech: Regulation and Disruption
On 28 February 2017, Afore Consulting organised the first annual conference on FinTech and Digitalisation: Regulation and Disruption. The event brought together more than 350 participants from the European regulatory and supervisory community, indust...
Read more3rd Annual Symposium on EU-Asia Relations in Financial Services
The 3rd edition of the EU-Asia Financial Services Symposium series took place between 26 - 27 May 2016 in Beijing with the theme ‘Promoting Convergence and Investments in EU-Asian Financial Markets’. The aim of this symposium was to provide a...
Read more2nd Annual Symposium on EU-Asia Relations in Financial Services
The 2nd edition of the EU-Asia Financial Services Symposium series took place between 27 - 29 May 2015 in Hong Kong with the theme ‘Promoting Convergence and Investments in EU-Asian Financial Markets’. This dialogue took place in small group d...
Read more1st Annual Symposium on EU-Asia Relations in Financial Services
The inaugural edition of this EU-Asia Financial Services Symposium series took place between the 18 - 20 June 2014 in Singapore with the theme ‘Promoting Convergence and Investments in EU-Asian Financial Markets’. The symposium on EU-Asian cap...
Read moreAfore Consulting Sustainable Finance Workshop
Afore Consulting would like to invite you to our Sustainable Finance Workshop which will take place in a virtual format on Wednesday 13 December 2023 from 10.30 to 13.30. In this Sustainable Finance Workshop, we would like to explore questions aro...
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