Aneta Spendzharova took part in a conference on ‘EU Financial Markets: East meets West’ in Warsaw on 16-17 November 2018, which brought together perspectives from financial supervisors, policymakers and academics from Eastern and Western Europe. The event (in)aptly coincided with the forced resignation of the head of the Polish financial regulatory authority on bribery allegations earlier that week.
A decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, there is still work to be done on the global, European and national financial regulation reform agenda. Just last week, the head of Poland’s financial regulatory authority was forced to resign following a report alleging that he had sought a multimillion dollar bribe from the owner of a troubled bank in exchange for favours. Closer to home, ING bank recently admitted poor compliance with European anti money laundering legislation and paid a hefty fine. The issue of how to ensure sound financial supervision was prominent on the agenda of the conference on ‘EU Financial Markets: East meets West’ in Warsaw on 16-17 November 2018, which brought together perspectives from financial supervisors, policymakers and academics from Eastern and Western Europe.
As part of the two-day conference, the Young Researcher Group of the European Banking Institute (EBI) kindly invited Aneta Spendzharova as one of the discussants in the PhD scholars’ workshop on ‘Bridging the Gaps in EU Financial Regulation,’ co-organised by the Young Scholars Seminar of EURO-CEFG, the University of Warsaw, the University of Wrocław and the Young Researcher Group of the European Banking Institute (EBI).
