New Chair Of European Financial Services Parliamentary Forum

At the Annual General meeting of the European Financial Services Forum, 24th January 2006 Ms Judith Hardt, FESE Secretary General was appointed as the Chair taking over from Rainer Boden (Deutsche Bank). The Forum brings together the financial services industry and European parliamentarians.

The main purpose of the Forum is to promote integration of a Single European Market for financial services across national borders and to provide a focus and resource for MEPs interested in financial services issues.

Taking over as the new Forum Chair, Judith Hardt said that “since its inception in 2000, the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum had considerable success in fostering a constructive dialogue with members of the European Parliament and in bringing together the financial services industry. The Forum’s contribution to the debate on the integration of Europe’s still fragmented financial market has been significant. Our aim in the future is to encourage debate at EU level and to improve the understanding of often complex issues”.