Summary of our key services

Summary of our key services

Monitoring: This is the foundation of all our activities as we are not lobbyists. Our specialty is two-fold: 

1.    Selecting relevant news about the influences on regulation of EU financial services.  

2.    Distributing to colleagues around the globe only the items that they want to know about.

Knowledge centre:  The breadth runs far beyond "Brussels" as we include any events in the Member States and other G20 countries (e.g. United States, Japan) that are likely to influence legislative action at the EU level. We split these events into seven basic categories: Financial services policy; Banking; Securities; Insurance; Asset management; Corporate governance and Competition issues in financial services. The 8000+ events are available for any of your colleagues to research at any time and IP address recognition gives instant access from your office computer system - pulling information from the database by the classic browsing.

Commentaries: Many events and commentaries cut across several policy areas so we offer access to that group of services as a complete package:

€      Briefs: We have added a “Brief Opinion” category that will build up to include contributions from experts in many of our main categories. They will be a five-minute read designed to give senior executives a quick feel for the business implications of a topic but links to our knowledge centre enable them to drill down to greater detail. We include relevant papers from  think tanks.

€      Bloggers: Correspondingly, we will launch a facility to publish 250 word blogs on topical issues so that there is a quick reflection of opinion from a wider array of commentators.

€      Graham Bishop’s  personal articles

€      Commentaries: Financial Services Month in Brussels; Edited Minutes/Notes of key legislative bodies; Full Weekly E-mail (Also available in Japanese and German ,  with French and Spanish planned)

€      Services: Key public sector players;   Future Events in EU Financial Services

Networking: In the next few years, profound changes will take place in the regulatory framework and the challenge is to network that information to colleagues within an organisation so that they can respond. Those reactions then need to be broadcast to the policy-making community. We have developed a powerful technological platform to simplify both elements:

€      Distributing information internally:
We provide a range of “push” mechanisms (corporate branded and personalised e-mails, RSS feeds). Our Headlines can be accessed as a ticker on your own website and via Twitter. Our weekly e-mail is available as a podcast. We can provide a suite of private web pages that can make our website effectively into your own corporate EU Affairs Intranet – sharing working documents and internal news.

€      External communication:

€      European Finance Forum and Brussels Financial Circle provide interaction with the European political institutions (Commission, Council and Parliament), regulators, professional associations and major financial institutions.

€      Our Lite e-mail can be customised to be sent out as your own publication to your members and associates, including your own articles.

€      Our system allows your staff/ members to share access to private web pages and comment on consultations that are being worked on collectively.

Consultancy: Our network of associated consultants offers bespoke consultancy including EU competition issues in the financial arena, tailored to an institution. Some of them will be providing Brief Opinions and be included amongst our Bloggers. Thought leadership programmes: We can assist by undertaking research that can be contributed to events organised by the sponsor or published externally as articles and speeches.  Variants of "Brussels for Breakfast" can be organised for an institution - either for its own staff or for external clients.