SESSION 1
Moving from the Single Market to the Single Economy:
Implications for Financial Integration and Monetary
Co-operation
EWART WILIAMS
Governor, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
Capital Reform, Financial Services and Single Markets:
A Regulatory Overview
GEORGE A. WALKER
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College,
University of London
Financial Innovations and Systemic Risk: In search
of an Ever-Elusive Global Super Central Bank
RABI N. MISHRA
Economics Department, Harvard University
SESSION 2
Trade, Development and Finance Issues in CARICOM
RAMESH CHAITOO
Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, Barbados
Caribbean Mergers and Acquisitions: Recent Experiences
and Lessons
CHERELYN
ELBOURNE & NESHA DEBYSINGH
Caribbean Money Market Brokers (CMMB), Port-of
Spain
Real Appreciation, Competitiveness and Regional
Financial Centrality: The Policy challenges
ANDREW C. PIENKOS
SESSION 3
Designing a Legal Framework for Better Fiscal
Management: Some Issues for Consideration
CARLA HERBERT
Ministry of Finance, Trinidad and Tobago
Financial Harmonization in the OECS: Legislative
and Regulatory
Framework
CHRISTOPHER MALCOLM
Queen Mary College, University of London
Does CARICOM need a Regional Insolvency Pact?
DOUGLAS LEYS
Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados
SESSION
4
Is Caribbean Sovereign really sovereign: Implications
of the Grenada Financing on Financial Institutions
MARTIN
DALGLEISH* & WANDA L. PINNEY**
* Financial Consultant, St. Kitts-Nevis
** Bank of Nevis, St. Kitts-Nevis
The
Structure & Performance of Equity Mutual
Funds in T&T
M.
BISHOP, D. SEERATTAN & P. WATSON
SALISES, The University of the West Indies, St.
Augustine
Securitization in the Regional Capital Market:
Opportunities and Constraints
P. DESMOND BRUNTON
Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados
SESSION 5
Striking
a Balance between Rules and Principles – Based
Approaches for Effective Governance: A Risk- Based
Approach
SURENDRA ARJOON
Department of Management Studies, The University
of the West Indies, St. Augustine
A Contextual Analysis of the Social Programmes
of Leading Financial Institutions in the Caribbean
EMILY DICK-FORDE
Department of Management Studies, The University
of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Corporate Governance: A State Enterprise Perspective
THE HON. CHRISTINE SAHADEO
Ministry of Finance, Government of Trinidad and
Tobago
SESSION 6
Univariate Time-Varying Volatility
SHERLENE S. ENRIQUEZ
University of Belize, Belize
Role
of Competition in Capital Allocation for R&D
Expenditure
AIYASWAMI N. PRASAD
Finance Department, University of Connecticut,
USA
Cross-Listing, Efficiency and Integration: Do Caribbean
Equity Markets Reflect the Macrocosm?
C.S.
BHATNAGAR & MARK SALINA
Department of Management studies, The University
of the West Indies, St. Augustine
SESSION 7
Economic Convergence in the Caribbean Community
ANTHONY BIRCHWOOD
Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies (CCMS), The
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The
Tourism Industry and Economic Stability in Trinidad &Tobago
ACOLLA
LEWIS & LESLIE-ANN JORDAN
Department of Management Studies, The University
of the West Indies, St. Augustine
SESSION 8
Regulatory
Compliance: “Evil Money” and
the implications for the Business of Banking in
a Caribbean Single Market
KIRK H. TAITT
FirstCaribbean International Bank Ltd, Barbados
Corruption,
Fraud and business Failures: The Forensic Accountant – Coroner
or Internist?
JUILANA THORPE-TAITT
Compass Financial Services, Barbados