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The congress languages are Czech, English, and German.
 


 

Wednesday, 24 October 2007

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Reception for congress participants and accompanying persons

 

Thursday, 25 October 2007

 

Congress opening
Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, former UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director of the Environment Programme of the United Nations (UNEP)
Speech of Prof. Dr. Töpfer

Ing. Milan Šimáček, Deputy Minister of Finance, Czech Republic
Speech of Ing. Šimáček

Dr. Thomas Wieser, President of EFBS and CEO of Allgemeine Bausparkasse reg. Gen. m.b.H., Austria

Speech of Dr. Wieser
 

 

First Session:
Inflation, saving, housing property acquisition

Moderation: Mag. Herbert Pfeiffer, Prvá stavebná sporiteľňa, a. s., Slovakia

Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Francke, University of Freiburg, Germany:
„Financing housing property in an inflationary environment


Marcia Cantor-Grable, Genworth Financial Inc., UK:
Enabling home ownership, responsibly
 

 

Second Session:
Risky and less risky types of housing finance, also with a view to foreign currency problems

Moderation: Dr. Thomas Wieser, Allgemeine Bausparkasse reg. Gen. m.b.H., Austria

Doug Duncan, Mortgage Bankers Association, USA:
„The state of the US housing market”

Hans-Joachim Dübel, Finpolconsult, Germany:
US-Subprime Market Crisis – Structural Causes and Issues for Emerging European Mortgage Markets”

Kommerzialrat Manfred Kunert, Österreichische Volksbanken-AG, Austria:
Foreign currency loans in housing finance – the example of Austria

Dr. Peter Zöllner, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Austria:
Risks of foreign currency financing – especially in combination with lump-sum repayment vehicle
 

 

Third Session:
Housing finance by comparison: the example of Poland and Czech

Moderation: Eng. Vojtěch Lukáš, Stavební spořitelna České spořitelny, Czech Republic

Jacek Furga, Polish Banking Association, Poland:
„Housing finance in Poland from the transformation years 1989/90 till today


Ing. arch. Daniela Grabmüllerová, MBA, Ministry of Regional Development, Czech Republic:
„Housing finance in the Czech Republic

 

 

Friday, 26 October 2007

 

Fourth Session:
Demographic aspects

Moderation: Dr. Stefan Jokl, ifs Institut für Städtebau, Wohnungswirtschaft und Bausparwesen, Germany

Detlef Gerhardt, European Commission, Belgium:
„Expected demographic changes in the EU


Dr. Bernhard Gräf, Deutsche Bank Research, Germany:
„The demographic change in Germany – effects and alternatives for action


Dr. Reiner Braun, empirica Gesellschaft für Struktur- und Stadtforschung mbH, Germany:
„Housing expectations of generation 50+


 

 

Fifth Session:
The growing importance of the new media for managing financial affairs

Moderation: Hans-Christian Vallant, Raiffeisen stambena štedionica d.d., Croatia

Harry Gardner, Mortgage Bankers Association, USA:
eMortgages – using electronic documents to streamline the mortgage process

Bartłomiej Wołoszyn, Hewlett Packard Poland:
„New media for managing financial affairs - it’s time for the next step. The theory, concepts and examples of innovative usage of new media for managing business affairs


Anette Rehm, Quelle Bauspar AG, Germany, and Mag. Andreas Fleiss, Bausparkasse der österreichischen Sparkassen AG, Austria:
„Banking and the 'new media' in the year 2032

 

 

Closing session

 

 


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