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Institute of Global Finance (IGF)
The Institute of Global Finance (IGF) is housed at Australia's leading business school, the Australian School of Business. The Institute promotes high quality finance and financial and banking policy research and key financial and regulator policy analysis. It promotes research that encourages innovation which in turn contributes to global and regional financial stability. It also promotes policies that contribute to regional and global financial stability and sustainable economic growth. It works closely with the Volatility Institute at NYU. The Director of the IGF is Professor Fariborz Moshirian.
The Institute's research agenda has close collaborative links with the NYU Volatility Institute on issues affecting financial institutions, measuring systemic risk, financial stability and financial regulatory issues. The Director of the Volatility Institute at NYU, the Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Engle, is a Senior Fellow of the IGF. The IGF has also close collaborative links with Fink Centre for Finance and Investments at the UCLA on issues with respect to global and regional liquidity risk, financial innovation and global investment strategies. The Director of the Fink Centre, Professor Richard Roll is a Senior Fellow of the IGF. The Institute is supported by three Nobel Laureates and some other eminent international collaborators and an international advisory board in its overall research, policy and activities' objectives. The Institute is supported by a high profile regional advisory board. The IGF also collaborates on research work with some major regional research Centres located in major universities in the Asia Pacific region with a view to promoting research and policy development and associated activities that will contribute to regional financial stability and the promotion of financial and economic integration, cross border free trade and exchanges.
The Institute promotes collaboration between the finance industry, regulators, governments and academia. It hosts the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, in collaboration with the School of Banking and Finance at the UNSW. The Institute is also supported by some key academics in Australia.
Some of the current global issues that has been supported by the IGF include the following:
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Australasian Finance & Banking Conference
Sunday 16 December – Tuesday 18 December, 2012
PhD Forum – Saturday 15 December, 2012
Sydney, Australia
The Institute also hosts, in collaboration with the School of Banking and Finance, the Australasian Finance & Banking Conference. This conference provides international academics and industry with the opportunity to meet and share their research and interest in finance related fields. The conference would like to invite all academics and practitioners to participate. The conference is the most prestigious finance conference in the Asia-Pacific region, and brings together the world's foremost leaders of thought from the financial community.
Further information
For further information regarding the Institute of Global Finance contact globalfinance@unsw.edu.au or +61 2 9385 7774
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Measuring Systemic Risk
Systemic Risk and Financial Regulations
Date: 7 June 2011
Venue: KPMG Headquarters in Sydney, from 5pm-6.30pm.
Keynote speaker: Professor Viral Acharya, Stern Business School, NYU.
Professor Viral Acharya is the co-editor of the following recently published books and a world authority on measuring systemic risk and international finance and regulation.
Recently released books:
1. Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance
2. Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance
For registrations and further information please contact globalfinance@unsw.edu.au
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The Systemic Risk, Basel III, Financial Stability and Regulation - Full conference program
The selected papers presented at this conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance in 2012. The editors of this issue are Claudio Borio (BIS) Katrina Ellis (APRA), Luci Ellis (RBA) and Fariborz Moshirian (IGF).
Papers for the conference
Date & time: 28 & 29 June 2011, Policy Forum 28 June, 8.30am -1pm
Venue: Shangri-La Hotel
The Systemic Risk, Basel III, Financial Stability and Regulation Conference will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney on 28 and 29 June 2011. The conference Policy Forum will be held from 8.30am to 1pm, followed by lunch (1pm-1.45pm).
Policy Forum (28 June 8.30am -1pm)
Keynote speakers of the Policy Forum include:
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Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Engle, New York University, Financial Institutions Systemic Risk and Innovation
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Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Douglas Diamond, the University of Chicago, Short Term Debt and Financial Regulation
- Assistant Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Dr Guy Debelle, Collateral, Funding and Liquidity
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Executive General Manager, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Wayne Byres, Seeking a Balance between Safety and Efficiency in Bank Supervision
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CEO Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Mr Greg Medcraft, Systemic Risk – The Role of Securities Regulators
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CEO Australian Bankers Associations, Mr Steven Munchenberg, What does Basel III Mean for Banks’ Customers and Their Shareholders?
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Leader of KPMG's Regulatory Centre of Excellence in the Asia Pacific region, Mr
Simon Topping, What Can the West learn from Banking Supervisory Practices in Asia Pacific Including China?
Conference program (28 June 2pm-5pm and Wednesday 29 June 9am-5pm)
The following keynote speakers will address the conference:
Tuesday 28 June:
Keynote addresses
- Mr Jim Murphy., Deputy Treasury Secretary (Executive Director, Markets), Competitive Banking Markets Post GFC (2pm-2.30pm)
- Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Douglas Diamond, Liquidity risk and government policy (2.30pm-3.30pm)
Concurrent sessions Tuesday 28 June 3.45pm-6pm
Wednesday 29 June:
Keynote addresses
- Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Engle, New York University, Identifying Globally Systemically Important Financial Institutions (9am-9.45am)
- Director of Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore, Professor Jin-Chuan Duan, A ‘Public Good’ Approach to Credit Rating Reform (9.45am-10.30am)
- Director of the UK Government’s International Centre for Financial Regulation, Ms Barbara Ridpath, The implications of national divergence in financial data and legislations on systemic risk and institutions operating internationally (11am-11.30am)
- Former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Ms Usha Thorat, Indian Banking Industry: Regulatory Challenges
- Banks and the Opportunities for Investment and Partnership (11.30am-12noon)
- Charles A.E., Goodhart. London School of Economics, Alexandros P. Vardoulakis, Banque of France, Sudipto Bhattacharya, London School of Economics and Dimitrio Tsomoocos, University of Oxford, Minisky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis and the Leverage Cycle (12noon-12.30pm)
Event organisers & supporters
The conference is organised by the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Journal of Banking and Finance. The conference is supported by the UK International Centre for Financial Regulation, Finsia, KPMG and the Australian Bankers Associations.
Further information
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