Thursday, August 17
9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:45 Welcome
10:00

What were the key themes and recommendations in Perspectives on Safe and Sound Banking?

Fred Furlong, Group Vice President, and Simon Kwan, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Discussants and audience Q&A
James Wilcox, Kruttschnitt Professor of Financial Institutions, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Rosengren, Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Noon Lunch
2:30 p.m.

How has the banking system and the process of financial intermediation changed?

Robert DeYoung, Associate Director, Division of Insurance and Research, FDIC

Discussants and audience Q&A
Loretta Mester, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Myron Kwast, Senior Associate Director, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

5:30

Reception and dinner

Keynote speaker
Randall S. Kroszner, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.

Friday, August 18
8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30

What reforms are needed to improve the safety and soundness of the banking system?

Mark Flannery, Bank of America Eminent Scholar of Finance, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

Discussants and audience Q&A
Harvey Rosenblum, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Dwight M. Jaffee, Willis H. Booth Professorship in Banking and Finance II, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

10:30 Break
10:45 Panel discussion and audience Q&A: Regulatory reform issues—key concerns and policy implications

Panelists
Authors of Perspectives on Safe and Sound Banking
12:30 p.m. Lunch and adjournment