Opening session & Working Sessions Part I

08:30 to 09:00 

Registration and welcome

09:00 to 09:15

Assoc. Prof. Ovidiu Ioan Dumitru, Ph.D. – Dean of Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

09.15 to 09:30

Prof. Ph.D. Constantin Marius Profiroiu – Vice Rector, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

09:30 to 10:00

Welcoming greetings from main partners:

Roberto Ferretti – President – European Society for Banking and Financial Law

Mihai Rotaru, President – Association of Legal Advisors from the Financial-Banking System

Bogdan Chirițoiu – President – The Romanian Competition Council

10:00 to 10:15

Keynote Speaker

George Serban – Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice

10:15 to 10:30

Keynote Speaker

Mihai Precup – President – Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Performance of Public Enterprises

10:30 to 10:45

Mihai Selegean – Legal Ease AI. Brief inventory of legal dilemmas in the activity of a bank that is preparing to use systems based on artificial intelligence.

10:45 to 11:00

Keynote Speaker

Alexandru Păunescu – Director of the Legal Department, The National Bank of Romania

11:00 to 11:15

Corina Țurcan, Director of the Legislation Department, The National Bank of Moldova – Elements of the reform of the bank liquidation framework in the Republic of Moldova

11:15 to 11:30

Prof. PhD. Guido Alpa – Università Sapienza Roma, General Editor European Business Law Review

11:30 to 11:45

Luca Di Donna- Artificial Intelligence and the social responsibility

11:45 to 12:45

Special Debate – Panel 1: Legal challenges for the European and national banking system

Moderator: Alexandru Păunescu – Director of the Legal Department, The National Bank of Romania

Special Guests: 

– Daniel Nicolaescu, Director of the Legal Department, Raiffeisen Bank 

– Diana Ciubotariu, Director of the Legal Department, UniCredit Bank

– Cristina Vîlcu, Director of the Legal Department, BRD

12:45 to 13:15

Awards of the Association of Legal Advisors in the Financial-Banking System

Book Launch – Competition, cooperation and regulation in the European banking sector

Guests: 

• Assoc. Prof. Ovidiu Ioan Dumitru Ph.D. – Dean of Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
• Assoc. Prof. dr. Ioan Lazăr Ph.D. – Faculty of Law and Social Sciences,  „1 Decembrie 1918” University,  Alba Iulia
• Simona Bușoi – Director of the ASE Publishing House
• Paul Tupa – CEO Improvement Credit Collection
• Alexandru Păunescu – Director of the Legal Department, The National Bank of Romania

13:15 to 14:00

Lunch break

Part II

14:00 to 15:00

Special Debate – Panel 2: The profession of legal counsel, opportunities and challenges

Moderator: Eduard Istratescu- Legal Director, Alpha Bank Romania

Special Guests: 

– Bogdan Nastasia – Deputy Legal Director, Alpha Bank Romania

– Mihai Popa – Legal & Compliance Director, E.O.N Romania

– Laurent Pitet – Legal Director, Bayer Healthcare France

– Robert Mălușanu – Legal Adviser, Legal Hospital Association

– Dragoș Mihai – Deputy Legal Director, Banca Transilvania

15:00 to 15:15

Iris Chiu – Professor of Corporate Law and Financial Regulation at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, Editor in chief European Business Law Review

The incoming EU Regulation of ESG Rating Providers and their roles in sustainable finance

15:15 to 15:30

Ioana Vieru – General Counsel Multivers X – Sanctions compliance for digital assets

15:30 to 16:30

Panel 3: The impact of digitization and AI changes on the banking sector

Moderator: Rebecca Marina – Counsel, Filip & Company

Special Guests: 

Bogdan Plesuvescu – Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Banca Transilvania

Gabriel Voicilă – Technology Partner, PwC

Bogdan Maghiar – Vice-president, UNEJ

Daniel Turbatu – Country Manager Romania at Paysera

16:30 to 16:45

Assoc. Prof. PhD. Elise Nicoleta Vâlcu – The National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Pitești University Centre, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Law- To what extent do the requirements of Directive (EU) 2023/2225 guarantee consumers’ rights in consumer credit. Agreements appropriate to the digital age

16:45 to 17:00

Costin Sandu – attorney at law, Stratulat Albulescu & Partners, Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) – Personal Data Protection and Cyber Security Department

17:00 to 17:15

Maria Tomescu – attorney at law, Dentons, Bucharest Banking and Finance – Team Corporate guarantees in bank financing transactions

17:15 to 17:30

Ciprian Marian Dică – Digitization of the European banking sector, challenge and source of transformation of consumer rights

17:30 to 17:45

Andreea Bianca Radu – Concluding contracts at a distance – particularities in the banking field

17:45 to 18:00

Gabriel Marin – Fraud in banking operations. When diversity, creativity and innovation play on the opposing team

18:00 to 18:10

Mihnea Orjan, Adelina Stan – The law of giving in payment – from the concept of limitation of property right to the concept of multidirectional sanction

18:10 to 18:20

George Bogdan Ioniță – Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

To be or not to be the enforceable title…the letter of bank guarantee? Observations on the considerations and effects of decision no. 43/2021 of the High Court of Cassation and Justice

18:20 to 18:30

Ionița Cochințu – assistant magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Romania, visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies – Free access to justice and subjects who have active procedural status in the situation of withdrawal of the operation authorization of a credit institution

18:30 to 18:40

Emilia Madularescu – visiting professor at Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Credit administrators in the light of European regulations

18:40 to 18:50

Lecturer PhD.  Dragoș Mihail Mănescu, Ph.D. – Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Blockchain technology, perspectives of the new banking model