The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the 2024 kick-off meeting of the Financial Services Working Group (WG). The meeting will be held on 17th April, 15:30 – 17:00, offline at the European Beijing and Shanghai Offices, as well as online. Please note this event is only open to industry representatives.

• 2024-04-17 - 2024-04-17 | 15:30 - 17:00
• European Chamber Beijing and Shanghai Offices

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the 2024 kick-off meeting of the Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI) Working Group. It will be held on Tuesday, 5th March 2024, 10:30 – 12:00 offline at the European Chamber Beijing office, as well as online.

• 2024-03-05 - 2024-03-05 | 10:30 - 12:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

Throughout the past few years, the EU has been revamping its regulatory toolbox in order to better address emerging economic, geopolitical, technological and climate challenges. This expanding toolbox includes instruments aiming at combatting economic distortions and creating a level-playing field in the Single Market, ensuring reciprocity with third countries in areas like procurement and combatting coercive actions initiated by those countries, fostering sustainable processes and preventing carbon leakage among industry players. As number of these regulations will impact the China operations of European companies, the European Chamber brings to you the Interpreting the EU’s Toolbox Series, where experts will provide an overview of the instruments that are being rolled out. The fourth episode of the series will focus on the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), and it will take place on 5th March 16:00 online.

• 2024-03-05 | 16:00 - 17:00
• Online

The European Chamber Beijing CSR Forum is delighted to have expert from NAFMII (self-regulatory body under PBOC) to give a briefing on China social responsibility bonds on 11th July afternoon 2pm-3:30pm both online and offline, in order to ensure members can better understand the participation in the Chinese social responsibility bonds and sustainability bonds. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion on Chinese CSR Bonds and EU Green Bonds, and expert from NAFMII, CACIB and Syntao will share their insights.

• 2022-07-11 | 14:00 - 15:30
• Beijing C405 meeting room +Zoom

On 23rd February, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on Sustainable Corporate Governance. The European Chamber has invited Ms Orsolya Csorba, Counsellor for Competition, Justice and Consumer Policy at the Delegation of the European Union to China to provide a debriefing on the Commission’s proposal. Ms Csorba will provide the debriefing onsite in Beijing on Thursday, 31st March from 10:00AM to 11:00AM. Members wishing to attend online will be provided a Zoom link.

• 2022-03-31 | 10:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Beijing offices

At this meeting, Sharon ZM Chen, Director Commercial, Corporate Services, Vistra and Ms Dujian Lin, Legal Advisor, Vistra will share their interpretation on the latest regulatory developments in leasing and commercial factoring, including:

· Shanghai Financial Leasing Company and Commercial Factoring Company's Relevant Business Specification Guidelines for Individual Customers 《上海市融资租赁公司、商业保理公司涉个人客户相关业务规范指引》launched 2020-05-01

· Guidelines for the Supervision and Management of Beijing Financial Leasing Companies (for Trial Implementation) 《北京市融资租赁公司监督管理指引》（试行）launched 2020-04-07

· Regulation of Beijing on Local Financial Regulation 《北京市地方金融监督管理条例》will be launched on 2021-07-01

· Implementation of the Civil Code related to mortgage registration of movable property, People’s Bank of China’s Uniform Registration Measures for Moving Property and Rights Guarantees (Revised Draft for Comments) 《中国欧盟商会关于中国人民银行发布《动产和权利担保统一登记办法（修订征求意见稿）》, public consultation concluded 2021-06-03

Members will also have an exchange on the implementation of the Civil Code (Mortgage, Zongdeng etc.), and form an advocacy plan for the launch of the NBFI Position Paper in September.

• 2021-07-13 | 16:00 - 18:00
• "European Chamber Office, Shanghai, Unit 2204

With support from the EU Commission, EU Delegation, Chinese counterparts, European and Chinese Banks, this event will be an efficient dialogue platform to highlight EU-China cooperation on financial sectors, and bring together regulators and industry players to exchange views and help to facilitate challenges for a better market development.

• 2021-05-19 | 09:30 - 12:00
• Online (webinar link will be shared prior to the event)

report review "Home Advantage: How China’s Protected Market Threatens Europe’s Economic Power"

• 2021-05-11 | 16:30 - 17:30
• Online (webinar link will be shared prior to the event)

At this get-together we will briefly discuss our key messaging and align on the wording of raised concerns. It will also be a great time for us to meet face-to-face, mingle with our peers and receive some updates on the regulatory development for leasing, auto finance and leasing.

• 2021-04-16 | 10:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Office, Shanghai

What are the roadblocks encountered by these? The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are pleased to invite you to our first Working Group meeting of Phase III of the Centre, where three expert panelists will discuss SME financing from the perspectives of banking, innovation funding and consumer finance. The meeting will take place on Monday, 2nd November from 16:00-17:30 both online and offline.

• 2020-11-02 | 16:00 - 17:30
• Zoom/Beijing Offices