Agenda - CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 08:30 - 09:00

Registration & Networking

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 09:00 - 09:10

Chair’s Welcome and Introduction

Grant Saggers - Senior Managing Director, NERA Economic Consulting
Stephen Whitfield - Head of Competition, Travers Smith LLP

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Regulation & Enforcement

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 09:10 - 10:00

Regulating the Financial Services Sector

Concurrent regulation: how do the authorities work together?
Who is best placed to regulate the financial services sector?
Is there a tension between competition policy and other regulatory policy aims?
London's role as a financial centre: is the competition regime helping or hindering?
What role can merger control play in regulating the financial services sector?

Alex Olive - General Counsel, Payment Systems Regulator
Mark Bethell - Manager, Competition Enforcement & Strategy, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Sharon Horwitz - Director, Sector Regulation, Competition and Markets Authority
Kier Liddell - Director, Global Competition Team, Barclays

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 10:00 - 11:00

Enforcement: Review of Significant National-Level Developments

Recent developments in enforcement in key jurisdictions
How are the authorities using their expanded toolkits when it comes to oligopolistic markets?

Kamil Nejezchleb - Vice Chairman, Office for the Protection of Competition, Czech Republic
Manon Bert - Legal Adviser, KBC Groep NV
Ling Ling Ang - Managing Director, NERA Economic Consulting
Frank Vergouwen - Senior Economist, Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM)
Jorge Fernandes Ferreira - Head of the Anti-Cartel Unit, Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC)

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 11:00 - 11:20

Morning Coffee Break

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Digital Disruption in the Financial Services

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 11:20 - 12:05

Open Banking & Open Finance: Where Next?

How can Open Banking & Account to Account open up competition in payments?
Is competition law holding up progress?
What should the role of regulators be?
What lessons can we learn from other jurisdictions?
What does the future hold in store?

Simon Burden - Head of Competition Law, NatWest Group
Russell Mascarenhas - Senior Competition Lawyer, Lloyds Banking Group
Robert Sullivan - Public Policy & Strategy Director, Token

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 12:05 - 13:05

Big Tech, FinTech & AI: Disruption in the Financial Services Sector

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 13:05 - 14:10

Networking Lunch

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Merger Control & FDI

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 14:10 - 14:55

Merger Control & FDI: Is Tougher Enforcement Frustrating M&A Activity?

How are the regulators approaching mergers in the financial services sector?
Is a tougher enforcement environment frustrating transactions?
How to plan for the new enforcement landscape:
- Why and where do issues arise?
- How to plan for them
- How to analyse risks from start-up and buyer perspectives?
Ecosystem theories of harm: how do they apply in the financial services sector?
Revised market definition
Foreign Direct Investment including proposals for outbound investment: implications for transactions in the financial services sector
Private equity and manager control
Minority interests, partnerships, and collaborations

Ross Evans - Special Counsel, Covington & Burling
Olivia Hagger - Head of Antitrust, London Stock Exchange Group
Ioannis Kokkoris - Chair in Competition Law and Economics, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University London
Richard Romney - Senior Legal Director, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

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Cartels, Private Enforcement & Horizontal Cooperation

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 14:55 - 15:40

Update on Cartels

Update on recent cases in the EU and UK
New frontiers of antitrust enforcement (1): information exchange and pricing algorithms
New frontiers of antitrust enforcement (2): labour markets

Stephen Whitfield - Head of Competition, Travers Smith LLP
Molly Herron - Head of Antitrust, WTW
Mari Scimemi - Director, Global Competition Team, Barclays

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 15:40 - 16:00

Afternoon Networking Break

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 16:00 - 16:45

Horizontal Developments: Collaboration, Coordination & Information Exchange

The new Horizontal Block Exemption: practical considerations
Information exchange
ESG and sustainability
Syndicated loans and co-insurance

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 16:45 - 17:25

Private Enforcement & Follow-on Damages

Update on FX appeals and credit card interchange litigation
Car finance class action proceedings
Umbrella proceedings at the CAT
Carriage dispute
Standalone actions
Calculation of damages

Grant Saggers - Senior Managing Director, NERA Economic Consulting
Fergus Randolph KC - Barrister, Brick Court Chambers

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 17:25 - 17:30

Chair’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

CompLaw: Financial Services Sector 2024 Agenda 17:30 - 18:40

Networking Drinks Reception

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