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2016-02-26 | All chapters

The Financial Services Conference 2016 saw leading executives in China’s financial services sector and international observers review the progress made in reforming the country’s capital markets, assess the impact of recent events, and recommend steps to accelerate reform.

Director-General Marco Buti, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission opened the event with a keynote speech on ensuring safer financial markets and breaking the links between banks and sovereigns through the European Banking Union. He also talked about the Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative with a view of establishing an integrated capital market in the European Union by 2019. Director-General Buti’s speech was followed a presentation on the opportunities and challenges of China’s Capital Markets by Professor Hong Yan. Professor Yan is teaches finance at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The last presentation focused on opening up the RMB bond market and was given by Ms. Linan Liu, Managing Director and Head of FICC/Rates Strategy Greater China at Deutsche Bank. 

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