28 Mar 2024
Wednesday 9 November 2016 - 12:04
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Focus on investment, banking at Iran-EU forum

Financial Tribune- The 3rd Banking and Business Forum Iran Europe will be held in Frankfurt on Nov. 16-17.

Billed as a "major event on opportunities in investment, banking and finance in Iran" it will take place in the context of the 19th Euro Finance Week Conference, a major European banking and finance event.

The privately-owned Saman Bank is co-sponsoring the forum, reports the bank's official website.

International Bankers Forum president Nader Maleki and Iran's ambassador to Berlin Ali Majedi will preside over the meeting on "banking and finance insights on the current situation."

Valiollah Seif, governor of the Central Bank of Iran will deliver the keynote speech with a focus on Iran's nuclear accord in a segment titled "new opportunities for Iran and the EU: Implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action". Joining Seif will be senior EU diplomat Helga Schmid who is the secretary general of the European External Action Service.

Rudi Bonte, Marcus Pleyer, Will Newton and Rolf M. Zollner are among the speakers. Bonte, a senior advisor to the Deloitte Banking Union Center in Frankfurt, will detail a European perspective on the need for financial sector reforms.

Pleyer who is head of the German Financial Action Task Force delegation and member of the FATF Steering Committee, will take up the subject of intergovernmental organizations and its relation with Iran.

The issue of Iran's membership in the anti-money laundering task force has emerged as a controversy in Tehran over the past few months with political conservatives claiming the measure would expose sensitive financial data to hostile foreign powers.

Newton, the head of strategic advisory affairs of Financial Institutions Group will reflect on the problem of non-performing loans and Zollner, a business developer with Technical Due Diligence will speak on investment in technology.

Representing Bank Saman, Vali Zarrabieh, the executive chairman of the bank's board will be part of the session that will focus on reconnecting Iran to the international payment world.

On the second day of the forum subtitled "Investment Opportunities in Iran", the Iranian ambassador will deliver welcome notes. Director of the Monetary and Banking Research Institute (MBRI) Ali Divandari and head of the German-Iranian Chamber of Industry and Commerce Omid Yaraghi will attend.

The minister of the State of Hessen, a specialist on Iran at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and the CEO of Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI) will deliver keynote speeches on the second day of the meeting.

Executives from several German companies will share their insights on the current status of investments in and exports to Iran as part of two separate panels.
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