Wednesday, December 5, 2001
Investor Relations Seminar
Prague, Czech Republic
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the Prague Stock Exchange, organized an Investor Relations seminar in Prague, Czech Republic. Over 60 participants representing Czech listed companies and the Czech investment community, as well as representatives of the Bratislava Stock Exchange attended the seminar. The seminar is part of a series of investor relations seminars the PFS Program is conducting in cooperation with Central and Eastern European Stock Exchanges throughout 2001 and 2002.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
 | Agenda - Investor Relations Seminar - Prague - December 5, 2001.rtf - 1,029 KB |
| Presentation - Geoffrey Mazullo, Director, PFS Program - December 5, 2001.ppt - 234 KB |
| Presentation - DSW - December 5, 2001.ppt - 58 KB |
| Presentation - Cesky Telecom - December 5, 2001.ppt - 1,128 KB |
| Presentation - Digital Strategies - December 5, 2001.ppt - 169 KB |
| Presentation - ISS - December 5, 2001.ppt - 25 KB |
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
Investor Relations Seminar
Vilnius, Lithuania
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the National Stock Exchange of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Securities Commission, organized an Investor Relations seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania. Over 80 participants representing Lithuanian companies and the Lithuania investment community, as well as representatives of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the Polish Securities and Exchange Commission attended the seminar. The seminar is part of a series of investor relations seminars the PFS Program is conducting in cooperation with Central and Eastern European Stock Exchanges throughout 2001 and 2002.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Thursday, November 8, 2001 - Friday, November 9, 2001
Seminar on Pension Fund Inspection
Warsaw, Poland
On November 8-9, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the
International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors
(INPRS) of the
Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), held its first Private Pension Seminar in Warsaw, Poland. The host of the event was theSuperintendency of Pension Funds of Poland (UNFE). Pensions supervisors from OECD countries and other countries implementing pension reform spoke at the seminar, as did experts in financial supervision, social security contribution and tax collection. Seminar participation was limited to pension regulators and supervisors from Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries, in order to promote interactive discussions during the presentations. 50 participants from 17 countries attended the seminar.
The objective of the seminar was to inform staff members of regulatory/supervisory agencies about operational/technical procedures of private pension funds, investigation techniques, methodologies for fund inspection and best practices in fund supervision.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Prevention of Money Laundering Seminar
Riga, Latvia
On October 30, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the Association of Latvian Commercial Banks, conducted a seminar on prevention of money laundering for commercial bankers and financial intelligence units from the Baltic Republics. 101 participants from Latvia, 11 from Estonia, 13 from Lithuania and one from Poland attended the seminar. Prevention of money laundering specialists from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia, South Africa and the UK shared their expertise with the audience.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - Thursday, October 25, 2001
International Accounting Standards (IAS) Workshop
Vilnius, Lithuania
On October 24-25, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the Lithuanian Audit, Accounting and Property Valuation Institute and the Latvian Financial Accounting Standards Technical Committee conducted a workshop on International Accounting Standards (IAS) for these two standards setting organizations.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Thursday, October 18, 2001 - Friday, October 19, 2001
International Audit Seminar: The Role of the Auditor in Mergers and Acquisitions
Prague, Czech Republic
On October 18-19, 2001 the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic held a two-day seminar entitled, "The Role of the Auditor in Mergers and Acquisitions." A PFS Program grant to the Chamber provided co-financing for the event.
Over 95 participants from the Czech Republic, 11 from the Slovak Republic, five from Hungary and three from Poland attended the seminar. Representatives of the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic, Chamber of Hungarian Auditors, National Chamber of Statutory Auditors of Poland and the Chamber of Auditors of the Slovak Republic; representatives of the international professional organizations FEE and IFAC; and an official from the European Commission Internal Market Directorate General attended and spoke at the seminar.
Geoffrey Mazullo, Director, PFS Program, also gave a presentation at the seminar.
To download the presentation, please click on the link below:
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Investor Relations Seminar
Budapest, Hungary
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the
Budapest Stock Exchange,
organized a seminar entitled, "Effective Investor Relations - A Prerequisite for Raising Capital" in Riga, Latvia. 50 participants representing Hungarian companies and the Hungarian investment community, as well as representatives of the
Prague Stock Exchange, the
National Stock Exchange of Lithuania, the
Warsaw Stock Exchange, the
Bratislava Stock Exchange and the
Ljubljana Stock Exchange attended the seminar. The seminar is part of a series of investor relations seminars the PFS Program is conducting in cooperation with Central and Eastern European Stock Exchanges throughout 2001.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Wednesday, October 3, 2001
Investor Relations Seminar
Riga, Latvia
On Wednesday, October 3, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the
Riga Stock Exchange,
organized a seminar entitled, "Effective Investor Relations - A Prerequisite for Raising Capital" in Riga, Latvia. 30 participants representing Latvian companies and the Latvian investment community, as well as the Director of the Listing Department of the
National Stock Exchange of Lithuania,
attended the event. The seminar is part of a series of investor relations seminars the PFS Program is conducting in cooperation with Central and Eastern European Stock Exchanges throughout 2001.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Thursday, September 13, 2001
International Accounting Standards (IAS) Seminar
Tallinn, Estonia
On September 13, 2001 the PFS Program, in cooperation with the Estonian Accounting Standards Board, conducted a seminar on International Accounting Standards (IAS) for accounting and audit professionals from the Baltic Republics. 39 participants from Estonia, 14 from Latvia and five from Lithuania attended the seminar.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Saturday, September 1, 2001
Investor Relations Online - Survey of Websites of Polish Listed Companies
In summer 2001, PFS Program commissioned Digital Strategies Group, Inc. to conduct a survey of Online Investor Relations of Polish Companies Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. This in-depth survey of Polish practices follows a survey conducted by the PFS Program of online investor relations at the 10 largest listed companies (by market capitalization) in Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia and Slovak Republic. (See below.) The research was designed to be presented at the series of investor relations seminars the PFS Program will conduct in cooperation with the stock exchanges in the above-mentioned eight Central and Eastern European stock exchanges. (Please see the Capital Markets Seminars page for the agendas and presentations from those seminars.)
Digital Strategies Group, Inc. will repeat the survey in 2002.
To download the survey, please click on the link below:
Wednesday, August 1, 2001
Investor Relations Online: Survey of Websites of the Largest Listed Companies in CEE
The PFS Program has conducted a first survey of online investor relations of the 10 largest listed companies (by market capitalization) in each of the following Central and Eastern European countries: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. The research was designed to be presented at the series of investor relations seminars the PFS Program will conduct in cooperation with the stock exchanges in the above-mentioned eight Central and Eastern European countries. (Please see the Capital Markets Seminars page of the PFS Program website for the agendas and presentations from those seminars.)
PFS Program interns Eva Katinka Schmidt and Yulia Anderson conducted the survey. From May through July 2001, 87 companies were surveyed. Of these, 80 had websites, 66 of which included information in the English language. 57 of the English-language websites provided information about the company’s management. 47 provided information about the supervisory board: 19 websites listed the names of the supervisory board members, 8 provided current occupation or place of employment of the members in addition to their names.
To download the database of companies and the survey, please click on the links below:
Friday, July 13, 2001
Technical Assistance: Implementing Legislation for a Registered Pledge - Secured Transaction System
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
On Friday, July 13, 2001 in response to a request for technical assistance from the Ministry of Justice of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the PFS Program organized a visit of three Polish judges to Sarajevo. Given that the Law on Registered Pledges and the Pledge Registry was under parliamentary consideration in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Justice requested that the PFS Program provide expertise from Central and Eastern European countries regarding the implementing legislation necessary once the Law was passed. The Polish judges met officials of the Ministry of Justice and offered recommendations regarding implementing legislation. In their assessment report, the Polish judges noted that three pieces of Polish implementing legislation would provide an initial intellectual framework for the Ministry of Justice to begin drafting implementing legislation for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The PFS Program financed the translation of this legislation into Bosnian.
To download the assessment report (in English) and translations of Polish implementing legislation into Bosnian, please click on the respective link below:
Two of the judges, Judge Jacek Czaja and Judge Jacek Widlo, had visited Sarajevo in February 1999 (under the auspices of the then USAID Legal and Regulatory Reform Project) to assist the Ministry of Justice of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in drafting the Law on Registered Pledges and the Pledge Registry. As part of the technical assistance provided, Judge Czaja’s Commentary on the Polish Law on Registered Pledges and the Pledge Registry was translated into Bosnian.
To download the translation of Judge Jacek Czaja’s Commentary into Bosnian, please click on the link below:
Friday, June 22, 2001
Bank Restructuring Seminar
Sofia, Bulgaria
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) hosted a regional seminar on bank restructuring, entitled, "Restructuring and Development of the Banking Sector in Advanced Transition Economies: Lessons for Bulgaria'' on June 22, 2001 in Sofia, Bulgaria. PFS grants to EPI (Bulgaria), IES (Czech Republic), ICEG (Hungary) and CASE (Poland) co-financed country studies and a comparative study presented at the seminar. Participants from Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania and Yugoslavia attended the seminar.
To dowload the presentations, please click on the link below, then choose Publications from the left menu, and scroll down to Discussion Papers. The presentations are under Nr. 8 and 10.
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Investor Relations Seminar
Tallinn, Estonia
In cooperation with the Tallinn Stock Exchange, the PFS Program held an investor relations seminar for Estonian issuers. Presenters included: the investor relations officer of the Estonian bank Hansabank; a representative of the digital investor relations service provider Hanashi IFC; the investor relations officer of the Finnish forestry company UPM-Kymmene; and Geoffrey Mazullo, Director of the PFS Program. The seminar introduced best practices and international standards in corporate financial disclosure and investor relations. Representatives of the Riga Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of Lithuania attended this pilot seminar, which will be repeated in autumn 2001 at several other Central and Eastern European Stock Exchanges.
To download the agenda, presentations and a list of participants, please click on the links below.
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
Capital Markets Seminar
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
In cooperation with the Bratislava Stock Exchange and the Slovak Association of Securities Dealers, the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program organized a capital markets seminar entitled, "Capital Markets in the Slovak Republic: An Alternative for Company Financing" in Bratislava on June 5, 2001. More than 120 participants from Slovak companies and the investment community attended the event. The PFS Program brought together the following experts in a panel that presented the capital markets experiences of neighboring countries to the Slovak audience: the Chief Financial Officer of Concept! AG (listed on the Neuer Markt in Frankfurt, Germany); the investor relations officer of the Hungarian bank OTP (listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange); the Chief Financial Officer of Softbank SA (listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange); and the Secretary of the Polish Securities and Exchange Commission.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Thursday, May 31, 2001
Symposium on International Accounting Standards (IAS)
Riga, Latvia
On May 31, 2001 a representative of the European Commission Directorate-General XV for Internal Market and Financial Services and the former Secretary General of the International Accounting Standards Board spoke about the adoption of International Accounting Standards (IAS) throughout Europe at a symposium in Riga, Latvia. The symposium brought together representatives of the Estonian Accounting Standards Board; the Latvian Financial Accounting Standards Technical Committee; and the Lithuanian Audit, Accounting and Property Valuation Institute. Government officials and financial market regulators from the three Baltic Republics as well as accounting specialists of the Riga Stock Exchange, Tallinn Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of Lithuania also attended the symposium.
To download the agenda and presentations, please click on the links below:
Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - Saturday, April 28, 2001
Bank Association Cooperation
Budapest, Hungary
From April 24 - 28, 2001 the Hungarian Banking Association hosted delegations from the Estonian Banking Association and the Association of Latvian Commercial Banks in Budapest to discuss issues of bank security and prevention of money laundering. The study tour and roundtable were co-sponsored by the PFS Program.
Monday, April 23, 2001 - Friday, April 27, 2001
International Private Pensions Conference
Sofia, Bulgaria
The annual Private Pensions Conference of the International Network of Pensions Regulators and Supervisors (INPRS) was held April 23-27, 2001 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Conference included regional and international sessions, as well as a technical committee meeting and an academic day. The speakers, from all corners of the globe, represented the INPRS, government officials, members of the OECD Secretariat, academics and representatives of think tanks and international donor organizations. The sessions covered country reports; practical and theoretical topics of private pension funds operations, regulation and supervision; and the Committee meeting of the INPRS. Over 100 registered participants from 30 countries (representing five continents and five international organizations) attended the conference. The conference received widespread press coverage, including television and radio reports as well as in-depth interviews of various pension experts and other conference participants.
The PFS Program organized the conference in conjunction with the following organizations (in alphabetical order):
For more information on the conference and to download the agenda and presentations, please click on the link below.
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