Small IFCs: Sharing perspectives and meeting the challenges

The Commonwealth Secretariat and the IFC Forum will host a policy conference examining the role of small international financial centres in the global economy. The conference will include perspectives from the OECD, Europe, small IFC governments, business leaders, respected academics and the media.

The conference will examine the main challenges and opportunities for IFCs today.

Book your place (on the Cicero Forum website) - here

Key Issues include:

• IFCs' Role in the Global Economy • How Economists See IFCs • IFCs in the Media • OECD Peer Review Process • Towards a Level Playing Field: Where Are We Ten Years On? • Technical Assistance and Capacity Building • IFCs and Developing Countries

Speakers include:

Chris Cummings Chris Cummings (Chief Executive, TheCityUK) on on Global Finance: the business perspective on IFCs' role

Richard Teather (Senior Lecturer in Tax Law, Business School, Bournemouth University) on IFCs: What do Economists Think?

Stephanie Guichard (Senior Economist Trade and Globalization, OECD) on Financial Intermediation in a Globalised World

Tim Hames (Head of Public Affairs, Communications and Campaigns, BVCA)on Global Finance: the business perspective on IFCs' role

Shane Lowe (Economist, Central Bank of Barbados) on IFCs and Developing Countries: Boon or Bane?

George Hodgson (Head of Policy, STEP) on the OECD Peer Review Process

Robert Mathavious (Managing Director and CEO of the BVI FSC) on Technical Assistance and Capacity Building: Challenges Facing IFCs

Prof. Andrew Morriss (Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama and Editor of Offshore Financial Centres and Regulatory Competition)

Colin Powell (Adviser - International Affairs in the Chief Ministers Department, States of Jersey)on Technical Assistance and Capacity Building: Challenges Facing IFCs

Pascal Saint-Amans (Head of International Co-operation and Tax Competition Division, OECD) on the OECD Peer Review Process

Prof. Jason Sharman (Griffith University)on IFCs and Developing Countries: Boon or Bane?

John Willman (Specialist Adviser at House of Commons Treasury Committee)on Tax Haven or IFC? How the media sees the offshore world

View the full agenda and conference brochure here