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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and Alternative Credit Council (ACC) are pleased to invite you to join discussions on how capital market investors can contribute to post-COVID economic growth. With the full re-opening of economies still on hold amid the ongoing battle against COVID, and ahead of a wave of policy initiatives to be launched in the EU, policymakers and industry representatives will share their views on how to facilitate and encourage investment in all Member States and across the EU.

This event will be an opportunity to better understand the role that alternative investment funds play in public and private capital markets, as a complement to the more traditional financing sources of retail investment funds and bank lending. Building on this understanding, the discussion will be an opportunity to assess how the regulatory environment can better enable this asset class to flourish in a post-COVID world.

Panel 1: The role of public capital markets to support economic growth

Speakers:

• Tanya Panova, Head of Unit, Capital Markets Union, DG FISMA
• Matti Leppälä, Secretary General/CEO, Pensions Europe
• Philippe Jordan, President, CFM

Moderator: David Wright – Chairman, EUROFI

Panel 2: Developing private debt markets as an alternative source of funding for EU SMEs and mid-market

Speakers:

• Ondřej Kovařík, Member of the European Parliament
• James Watson, Director of Economics, Business Europe
• Patrick Simion, Chief of Staff of the CEO, BNP Paribas AM
• Michael McGrath, Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance, Ireland

Moderator: David Wright – Chairman, EUROFI