Fourth Annual Forum:

Financial Services in South East Europe

4. December 2008. 9:00 - 16:00

Serbia, Hyatt Regency Hotel

Organiser: EMG

Developing a strategy for a coherent and strengthened financial services market in an emerging market setting is a challenge facing Serbia and the countries of South East Europe.

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9:00-9:30 Registration, Coffee/Tea

9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks: Radovan Jelasic, Governor of the National Bank of Serbia
Mladan Dinkic, Minister of Economy and Regional Development

9:45-11:00 Panel 1 – Global Financial Crisis-How are we going to handle it?

Moderator: Milan Elezovic, Director, Emerging Markets, Credit Suisse, UK
Slobodan Ilic, State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Serbia
Tibor Pandi, Director, South Central Europe Baltics and Belarus Head, Citigroup
Marko Tutunovic, Sales and Operations Manager, SAS, Serbia
Zoran Petrovic, Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board, Raiffeisen Bank Serbia
Zorica Petrovic, Director of Hypo Alpe-Adria Pension Fund

- Global financial crisis and its effect on the region
- The new role of international financial institutions
- Bank Stability: Will, after the guarantee for savings up to EUR 50,000, the government also guarantee inter-bank loans
- Merging small banks in response to the crisis-a chance or a blunder
- Effects of the crisis on the relationship of domestic banks and their Head offices abroad: How realistic is the fear that the crisis will affect the Serbian regional markets through their head offices abroad?
- Government and NBS strategy to fight the crisis
- Fund industry- how to lessen the negative effects of the global crisis on pension and investment funds (how to attract new members if the value of the fund is constantly falling?)
- Postponing announced IPO’s
- Will the crisis raise the significance of new IT solutions for risk control in financial institutions?
- How to preserve the difficultly gained trust in financial institutions in Serbia?

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Panel 2 – Insurance-The Next Generation

Moderator: Milan Culibrk, Editor and Chief, Ekonomist Media Group
Slobodan Ilic, State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Serbia
Jelena Doganjic, Director of Actuary and Statistics, Sector for Insurance, National Bank of Serbia
Christoph Rath, Member of the Board, Wiener Stadtische Osiguranje Serbia
Mirko Petrović, General director, Dunav Osiguranje
Katarina Ivancevic, Executive director for legal and general business department, Triglav, Serbia
Matej Pirtovšek, Advisor to the Management Board, Asset Management and Strategic Investments, KD Življenje

- State incentives that would facilitate the development of the insurance industry
- Consumer protection for insurance and banking services
- Corporate Insurance
- Risk Management
- Confidence in insurance companies throughout the world financial crisis
- Educating citizens on Insurance services (agent responsibility in the sales process)
- Consolidation of the insurance sector and prospects for growth
- Identifying new opportunities – life insurance
- Prospects of the insurance industry in the region
- Impact of foreign insurance companies entering the Serbian market

13:00-13:30 Coffee Break

13:30-14:30 Panel 3 – Leasing

Moderator: Milan Culibrk, Editor and Chief, Ekonomist Media Group
Kornelija Novakovic, Director of the division for Oversight of Financial Leasing, National Bank of Serbia
Bojan Basa, President of the Association of Leasing Companies in Serbia
Stefan Biricz, Member of the management board, Trenkwalder, Austria
Vlastimir Vukovic, Director, Intesa Leasing Serbia
Alexander Petritz, CEO, Immorent, Serbia

- Managing risk in the leasing business
- Leasing: Regulatory obstacles in Serbia
- Operative vs. financial leasing
- Leasing Real Estate- perspective and obstacles
- Leasing funds for entrepreneurs
- Staff leasing

14:30-15:30 Lunch