Baltic Financial Forum (annual conference “Banking and Finance in the Baltics”) is an international financial conference dedicated to the most important developments in the economy, financial sector, as well as banking system development opportunities in the EU countries, CIS and Russia.

The premiere conference was held in 1995 and in the course of thirteen years of existence Baltic Financial Forum has featured such keynote speakers as:

Baltic Financial Forum dedicates public attention to:

• World economic outlook 
• Global inflation - a major threat to the EU economy?
• High energy and commodity prices boost inflation. What tools can be applied to bring it under control?
• The latest developments of the EU and CIS countires banking systems
• Outlining strategy for future growth: banking challenges and trends
• Development of the economic relations between the Baltic States, EU countries, CIS and Russia
• How will the slowdown in the Baltic States’ economies impact regional business and direct foreign investments?
• Financial stability and situation on the Global financial market
• Development of the Baltic countries infrastructure, domestic industry, IT & T Sector
• Stagnation on the Baltic States real estate market. How to shake up the market?

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Each year the Forum gathers around 400 participants from European Union countries, Russia and CIS.

Over two days of the Forum, during the plenary sessions speakers and participants discuss the strategic issues that are related to the economies of the Baltic States, their development in the context of the EU, banking system and infrastructure development, investment promotion, Public Private Partnership, financial market supervision and regulation. Professionally advanced parallel sessions devoted to corporate finance, finance management, accounting and audit, asset management and real estate market development are also included in the Forum programme.

The Baltic Financial Forum is organized by The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Latvia, Association of Latvian Commercial Banks, Lithuanian and Estonian bank associations, LBS International Conferences, and Economist Association 2010.