Social aims of finance

Exploring alternative business forms for durable financial services

15 Jun 2018 at 9:30am

Torino, Italy

eabh in cooperation with Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo

‘The City is too big and socially useless’

said Lord Adair Turner, former chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority in 2009.

That legitimacy question has not gone away since, indeed, if anything it appears to grow stronger. This conference explores how financial institutions have tackled it by developing alternative goals and business forms for durable financial services.

Programme

15 June

Moderators: Lilia Costabile, University of Naples & Harold James, Princeton University 9:30 Welcome coffee 10:00 Welcome Francesco Profumo, President of Compagnia di San Paolo Carmen Hofmann, Secretary General of eabh 10:30 Keynote Institutional diversity and social inclusion Rym Ayadi, CASS Business School, City University of London 10:45 Morning Session 1 Between ethics and profit: shaping a coordinated credit network in pre-modern and modern Italy​ Mauro Carboni & Massimo Fornasari, University of Bologna Keys to financial success for socially oriented banks. Lessons from the public banks of Naples Lilia Costabile, University of Naples The Compagnia di San Paolo in Turin. Charity and credit Claudio Bermond, University of Torino & Fausto Piola Caselli, University of Cassino    Inclusive business models as unique selling points between past and future Paul Thomes, RWTH Aachen University Contemporary history of impact financing Maximilian Martin, Banque Lombard Odier 12:00 Coffee 12:30 Morning Session 2 Christian religious orders and money: The example of the Observant Franciscan Friars in the 15th Century    Gianfranco Armando, Secret Archives of the Vatican Credere, credit and money: how social is risk-sharing in Islamic finance? Valentino Cattelan, The Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture"  Social Entrepreneurship: The Rothschilds as bankers and philanthropists (c.1850-1930)  Klaus Weber, European University Viadrina  Frankfurt (Oder)  13:15 Lunch 14:00 Panel Discussion How can alternative forms of finance compete? Moderator: Catherine Schenk, Oxford University Rym Ayadi, CASS Business School, City University of London Giovanni Ferri, LUMSA University of Rome Goran Jeras, eBanka Maximilian Martin, Banque Lombard Odier Marco Ratti, Banca Prossima 14:45 Afternoon Session 1 Taking account of the details – A micro perspective on the function of savings banks in early-nineteenth century England Linda Perriton, University of Sterling & Stuart Henderson, Dublin Institute of Technology British building societies 1970-2000: the changing conditions for a viable not-for-profit alternative in a financialized economy Olivier Butzbach, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli The origins of the (cooperative) species: Raiffeisen banking in the Netherlands, 1898-1909 Chris Colvin, Queen’s University Belfast 15:30 Coffee 16:00 Afternoon Session 2 Adapting to a changing world. The Swedish savings banks in the 21st century Tom Petersson, Uppsala University The evolution of the social and cultural investments of the Spanish savings banks, 1926-1990: the ‘social and cultural work’ Ángel Pascual Martinez Soto, University of Murcia Social aspects of the insurance history of mutual assistance in Italy Gian Savino Pene Vidari & Enrico Genta Ternavasio, Association ‘Amici del Museo di Reale Mutua’ 16:45 Closing Remarks Harold James, Princeton University 17:15 End of Conference