Financial sector reform in transition economies, and policies for SME growth

Warsaw, 17 November 2009

 

 

Following the launch of the SCU Initiative on 1 April 2009, the first meeting of the Working Group on Financial Markets Development and Impact of Central Banks will be held on 17 November 2009 in Warsaw, Poland.

 

The purpose of this meeting is to initiate dialogue between countries from the South Caucasus and Ukraine, OECD countries and key representatives of the private equity industry, business incubators, research institutions and government regulators to discuss regulatory measures to support entrepreneurship in the region through better financial sector regulation and innovative financing arrangements.

 

Questions addressed in this meeting will include:

  • What are the challenges in financial markets reform faced by transition economies?
  • How to regulate financial sectors appropriately, in times of economic crisis and beyond?
  • What should be the role of supervisory authorities?
  • How to build national and regional financial markets to develop into a financial centre? – Learnings from other transition economies;
  • How to finance economic growth in the SCU region in times of crisis? – Developing guidelines for the monitoring and evaluation of targeted programmes to support financing of high growth SMEs;
  • How to develop innovative sources of financing, such as venture capital, business angels networks and micro-finance facilities?


The meeting will be co-chaired by the Czech Republic and hosted and co-organised by the National Supervision Authority of the Republic of Poland.

 

 

 Meeting documentation

 

Draft agenda
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