For senior executives in lending, funding, risk management, treasury, administration. Keynote speeches and panel discussions covering the on pan-European issues, topics and trends. Each day's sessions are designed to follow the natural progress of the mortgage value chain from origination and distribution to underwriting, risk management and administration to funding, including covered bonds, emerging frameworks for structured covered bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
For senior executives in business development, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, sales and marketing. Two- to three-hour panel sessions that cover all aspects of major European markets including:
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Adrian Coles
director general, Building Societies Associationsecretary general, International Union for Housing Finance  A graduate of both Nottingham and Sheffield Universities with degrees in Economics, Adrian Coles joined the Building Societies Association in 1979 as an Economist. After various appointments he became Director General in 1993. Between 1993 and 1996 he was also Director General of the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Since 1993 he has represented the Association on the Executive Committee of the European Mortgage Federation. In December 2001 Adrian was elected Secretary General of the International Union for Housing Finance. Since its formation in 1999 he has been an industry representative on the Banking Code Standards Board. Adrian was one of the two joint examiners in Economic Affairs for the Chartered Building Societies Institute's Associateship examinations between 1984 and 1987. Between 1989 and 2000 he was a member of the Board of Thames Valley Housing Association, a medium sized not-for-profit housing development and management organisation with around 6,000 properties; he was Chairman between 1990 and 1993. He has been on the board of Housing Securities Ltd, a borrowing "club" of medium sized housing associations, since 1994. In 2000 he joined the board of the Independent Housing Ombudsman, which resolves complaints made about social housing landlords by their tenants. Outside the housing field, Adrian has recently retired as a member of the Governing Body at his local primary school after 10 years' service, four of them (1991-93 and 1997-99) as Chairman; he is a member of the Governing Body of his daughter's secondary school. He is also a trustee of Money Advice Trust, which raises funds to support the provision of independent debt counselling services. He is a regular contributor to the Mortgage Finance Gazette, Housing Finance International and a number of other journals concerned with housing and finance. He also frequently addresses seminars and conferences, both in the UK and overseas, on these topics and has often appeared on radio and television. Aged 47, Adrian is married and has a son aged 19 and a 15-year-old daughter. With his son he has a season ticket at Tottenham Hotspur FC, and has recently taken up golf. He jogs regularly, and enjoys reading political history, and books about cricket. back |
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