Please join us for an ESBG Spotlight Special dedicated to shed some light on some fresh payment related legislative initiatives from the European Commission. The day after the European Commission publishes these proposals, ESBG will put Jan Ceyssens, Head of Unit Digital Finance, and Eric Ducoulombier, Head of Unit Retail Financial Services, both from DG FISMA, in the “Spotlight”. The event will take place on 29 June 2023, the day after some landmark proposals will be published by the Commission, during the ESBG Spotlight Special, these two seasoned Commission officials will provide some voice over to the proposed Digital Euro Regulation, the proposed Payment Services Directive 3 and Payment Services Regulation, and the proposed Regulation on a framework for Financial Data Access.

The event will provide post-launch insights on these new legislative proposals, and will be moderated by Diederik Bruggink, Head of Payments, Digital Finance and Innovation. The introductions will be followed by a Q&A session. This hybrid event is free of charge and will be held in English. Upon registration, you can indicate whether you would like to attend the event physically at the ESBG offices in Brussels or online. As places for physical attendance are limited, you will have to await a separate confirmation from us whether you can attend physically ( you will be communicated by Tuesday 27th). Anyhow, once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation containing the meeting link and instructions for joining the webinar.​

PROGRAMME

13:00 Welcome with Coffee

13:30 Start of webinar with Opening Remarks by Peter Simon

13:35 Introductions by Jan Ceyssens and Eric Ducoulombier​​

14:15 Q&A session moderated by Diederik Bruggink

14:45 End of the webinar

About the speakers

Jan Ceyssens is Head of the “Digital Finance” Unit in the Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) at the European Commission. He was previously Member and Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Vice President Dombrovskis and Member of the Cabinet of Vice-President Barnier, and Team Leader for Financial Supervision at the European Commission’s Internal Markets and Services Directorate General. He graduated in law from Humboldt University in Berlin and holds a Master’s degree in European Law from King’s College London. He works at the European Commission since 2006, initially in the Directorate General for Competition’s Cartels enforcement Directorate and since 2009 in the Internal Markets and Services Directorate General.

Eric Ducoulombier is, since 1 January 2019, Head of the “Retail Financial Services and Payments” Unit in the Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union in the European Commission (DG FISMA). Before that, he was in charge of the Unit dealing with Inter-Institutional affairs and Planning in DG FISMA. Eric joined the European Commission in 1992, after having worked a few years in the private sector (consulting, law firm…). He holds a Master’s Degree in Law.

Peter Simon is Managing Director at the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG).

Diederik Bruggink is Head of the Payments, Digital Finance and Innovation Department at the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG).

Get in contact with us for more details about Spotlight, replays of previous editions or possible collaboration: constantin.vicol@wsbi-esbg.org