EBF Year Ahead: Top EU, finance and banking events in 2020

A look ahead to the new year’s meetings, conferences, workshops – and Brexit

January:

• 13: ECON committee meeting in Strasbourg


• 14-16: European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg


• 15: EBF Financial Crime Strategy Group


• 16: Data Protection Day 2020, Zagreb, Croatia


• 21: Ecofin meeting


• 21-24: World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland


• 22-23: ECON committee meeting


• 23: ECB monetary policy meeting in Frankfurt


• 27: ECON committee meeting


• 28-29: Paris Fintech Forum, EBF CEO Wim Mijs speaking
  


• 30: EBF Single Supervisory Mechanism Boardroom Dialogue in Frankfurt


• 31: Brexit: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

February:

• 4: ECB: Publication of Euro area bank interest rate statistic


• 6: ECON committee meeting


• 6: European Commission publishes Winter 2020 Economic Forecast


• 10-13: European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg


• 12: Encouraging and rewarding sustainability - EBF Workshop


• 17: Eurogroup meeting


• 17-18: ECON committee meeting in Strasbourg


• 18: Ecofin meeting


• 18: Navigating AML Compliance - EBF/S&P Global Market Intelligence Joint Webinar


• 19: ECB Governing Council of the ECB non-monetary policy meeting


• 20: EBF Executive Committee meeting in Frankfurt


• 25: Markets4Europe Regional Conference, Luxembourg


• 27: Markets4Europe Regional Conference, Berlin, with participation of German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz

March

• 5: ECON committee meeting


• 8: International Women's Day


• 12: ECB monetary policy meeting in Frankfurt


• 16: Eurogroup meeting


• 18-19: ECON committee meeting in Strasbourg


• 17: Ecofin meeting


• 19: Forum Europe's Annual European Financial Services Conference


• 24: Financial & Digital Literacy in the 2020s - EBF Workshop


• 25: EBF Conference on Basel IV at the European Parliament


• 26-27: European Council: Informal meeting of EU 27 Heads of State and Government


• 23-27: 2020 European Money Week. Activities by national banking associations in more than 32 European countries and by EBF in Brussels to promote financial education

April

• 2: ECB General Council meeting in Frankfurt13: Easter Monday


• 16-17: G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Washington DC


• 17-19: Spring meetings of the World Bank Group and IMF in Washington DC


• 22-24 Eurofi High Level Seminar, Zagreb


• 24-25 Informal Ecofin, Zagreb


• 28-29: European Finals of the European Money Quiz, Brussels 

May

• 1: Labour Day Holiday


• 5: EBF Spring Economic Outlook to be presented (TBC)


• 6: European Commission to present its Spring economic forecast (TBC)


• 7: Markets4Europe Regional Conference,  Stockholm


• 14-15: EBF Executive Committee & Board meetings in Zagreb, Croatia


• 17-18: EBF Associates meeting in Istanbul, Turkey


• 18: Eurogroup meeting


• 19: Ecofin meeting


• 21: Ascension day

June

• 1: Whit Monday


• 4: ECB Monetary Policy Meeting, Frankfurt


• 11: Eurogroup meeting


• 12: Ecofin meeting, Luxembourg


• 16: Markets4Europe Regional Conference,  Croatia


• 16-18: Money20/20 Europe conference in Amsterdam


• 18-19: European Council: Informal meeting of EU 27 Heads of State and Government


• 24: General Council meeting of the ECB in Frankfurt


• 26: EBF Executive Committee meeting

July

• 1: Germany takes up the rotating presidency of the EU Council


• 1-4: European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg


• 16: ECB Governing Council Meeting, Frankfurt


• 18-19: G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


• 29: ECB monetary policy meeting, Frankfurt

August

• 1: Assumption Day

September

• 10: ECB monetary policy meeting, Frankfurt


• 9-11: Eurofi High Level Seminar, Berlin


• 11-12: Informal Ecofin, Berlin


• 24: ECB General Council meeting, Frankfurt

October

• 2: EBF Executive Committee meeting


• 15-16: G20 Finance ministers and central bank governors, Washington DC


• 16-18: 2019 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF in Washington, D.C.


• 23: EBF Chief Economists Group to present autumn economic outlook (TBC)


• 24: ECB monetary policy meeting, Frankfurt


• 27: EBF Cybersecurity Conference


• 28: EBF Digital Innovation Conference


• 30-31: Basel Committee on Banking Supervision meeting, Basel

November

• 1: All-Saints Day


• 9: European Commission to present its Autumn 2019 Economic Forecast (TBC)


• 18: ECB Governing Council Non-Monetary Policy Meeting


• 19-20: EBF Executive committee & Board meetings


• 21-22: G20 Summit, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

December:

• 3: ECB General Council meeting, Frankfurt


• 10: ECB monetary policy meeting, Frankfurt


• 25-26: Christmas