DIARY - European Central Bank (ECB) events to October

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
CHICAGO- Eleventh Annual International Banking Conference.
Organised by The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the
European Central Bank 'Credit Market Turmoil 2007-08:
Implications for Public Policy'. Keynote presentations by Kevin
Warsh, Member, Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve
System; Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo, Board Member, European
Central Bank; Nout Wellink, President, Netherlands Bank, and
Chairman, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (to Sept. 26).
Link: www.chicagofed.org/ -

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
FRANKFURT- ECB Executive Board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi,
Swedish Riksbank Governor Stefan Ingves and others discuss what
Europe's central banks should do about financial stability at an
event organised by Frankfurt's Center for Financial Studies
(1300-1500 GMT)-

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
FRANKFURT- ECB Governing Council meeting, followed by interest
rate announcement 1145 GMT. News conference follows at (1230
GMT) -

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9
FRANKFURT- ECB publishes its monthly Bulletin - (0800 GMT)

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13
WASHINGTON- 2008 Annual meeting of the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Link:
here

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20
PRAGUE- Eleventh Conference of the ECB-CFS Research Network on
"The Market for Retail Financial Services: Development,
Integration, and Economic Effects" (to Oct. 21). Keynote
speakers include ECB Executive Board member Gertrude
Tumpel-Gugerell and (TBC) ECB Vice-President Lucas Papademos.-

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
FRANKFURT- ECB Governing Council meeting. No interest rate
announcements scheduled. -

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
AMSTERDAM- ECB Governing Council member Nout Wellink opens a
seminar on business ethics (1300-1325 GMT)-

FRANKFURT- ECB Governing Council member Axel Weber attends a
panel discussion on financial crisis organised by German
Association of Public-sector Banks (VÖB)- (1800 GMT)

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October 01

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November 03 04 05

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December 01 02 03

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SOURCE: European Central Bank (ECB).
LINK: here