Center for Financial Professionals
The Center for Financial Professionals is an international research organization and the focal point for financial risk professionals to advance through renowned thought-leadership, knowledge sharing, unparalleled networking, industry solutions and lead generation.
Center for Financial Professionals is driven by and dedicated to high quality and reliable primary market research. It is this market research that allows us to provide financial institutions, industry professionals and companies with unparalleled knowledge sharing through research projects and reports, peer-to-peer conferences, exhibitions, news, and reports.
Whether your objective is thought-leadership and networking at an international conference and exhibition, a focused training course to advance your knowledge and skillsets, or an independent research project to base your next thought-leadership report, we can provide the right service for you.
Featured Events
5th Annual Stress Testing Europe 2017
26-27 September 2017
The 5th Annual Stress Testing Europe 2017 Summit, will review stress testing requirements and evolving processes whilst moving towards a more automated approach.
CECL 2017
October 11-12, New York City
Following the release and progress towards the European IFRS 9 standard, the focus moves towards the US edition of CECL, hear from 20+ presenters and panellists providing an overview of what the standard is, what it means for FIs moving forward and action points over the coming year.
2nd Annual Liquidity Risk Management USA
17-18 October 2017
The 2nd Annual Liquidity Risk Management USA, will examine the liquidity risk landscape and potential shifts in regulatory focus.
3rd Annual Operational & Enterprise Risk Management
October 19-20, 2017
The Congress returns to New York to further progress on discussions towards creating a more integrated enterprise risk management framework. Hear from more than 20 presenters and panelists sharing their insight and expertise on delivery, execution and management of operational and enterprise risk management frameworks.
FinTech Europe 2017
14-15 November, 2017
The Center for Financial professionals will bring together industry experts from both the leading financial institutions and FinTech companies to assess collaboration between FinTech’s and banks to advance processes, technologies and ultimately efficiency. FinTech Europe 2017 will address a range of challenges and topics within the industry including: PSD2, GDPR, Blockchain, RegTech, Cyber Risk, Fraud and more.
5th Annual Stress Testing USA: CCAR & DFAST
November 7-8, 2017
North Americas largest stress testing gathering returns to New York City. The 5th Annual Stress Testing USA 2017 will bring together senior stress testing professionals from institutions of varying sizes to cover requirements specific to CCAR, DFAST and the overlaps. Last year’s event attracted over 250 stress testing professionals across two days, four streams, over 70 presenters, 20+ luncheon networking roundtables, and much more.
2nd Annual Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
21-22 November, 2017
As financial institutions look towards further understanding of the FRTB standard and proposals guiding the next generation of market risk regulatory capital rules, the Center for Financial Professionals bring the 2nd Annual Fundamental Review of the Trading Book to deliver insight on the standard and a platform for further interaction and discussion to better understand the requirement and the impact on global financial institutions. We are currently researching this year’s agenda, more details will be provided soon.
Payments Forum 2018
27-28 February, 2018
The payments sector has evolved dramatically over the last 5-10 years with FinTechs emerging and altering its landscape and financial institutions investing in technologies to provide more efficient payment services. The Center for Financial Professionals will bring together payment experts from leading financial institutions to discuss the risks associated with, and technologies behind payments. As institutions continue to navigate through an era of increasing regulatory initiatives, with an increased focus on security and payments, hear from senior industry professionals share their experiences on the latest payment trends, developments and requirements.
Assessing the preparedness of financial institutions using standard approach for IFRS 9
Online Business Technologies and the Center for Financial Professionals have launched a joint survey to screen the IFRS 9 impairment approach of banks using Standard Approach, and identify widely used simplification strategies that are allowed by the standard.
The objective of the survey was to
- give an overview of the status of IFRS 9 implementation projects to serve as a benchmark for banks,
- identify simplification opportunities, which are widely used by the banking community, and share ideas about these opportunities,
- screen the expected budget and IT costs of IFRS 9 implementation to enable banks to compare their implementation project to others.
Want to work with the Center for Financial Professionals on the next research report? Contact research@cefpro.com today to discuss how we research over 450,000 risk professionals.
The Center For Financial Professionals recently collaborated with MyComplianceOffice to conduct research with close to 250 relevant professionals to identify the development of third party risk management practices to provide the industry with a better view of the current issues and an understanding of how our peers are overcoming the challenges in the sector.
Want to work with the Center for Financial Professionals on the next research report? Contact research@cefpro.com today to discuss how we research over 450,000 risk professionals.
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Sponsorship and exhibition at the Center for Financial Professionals’ events offer unique networking, brand recognition and thought-leadership deliverance opportunities with senior industry professionals from around the world. Whether you want full branding across the event or simply a well-positioned exhibition stand, our sponsorship team will tailor the right package for you.