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September 24th 2009

The Dorchester, London

The challenge is that as pressure to cut costs increases, there must also be a renewed investment in innovation. But is your organisation doing all it can to maximise its innovation potential? Attracting the best talent, locating strategically, creating the right internal processes and structures – all these factors enable innovation to flourish within business.

Enabling innovation: Strategies to optimise innovation across the business, part of a series of events that are being run globally by Economist Conferences, will explore in depth what it takes to build and maintain an innovative enterprise. The forum will investigate how innovation is channelled for maximum business success – the perfect platform for the development of new ideas and will also address the key findings from a global survey giving you insight into how organisations align innovation and talent management strategies.

How will you and your business benefit from attending?
• Engage with discussion leaders from the worlds of business and academia
• Gain access to research conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit
• Contribute your thoughts
• Meet and network with 40 senior executives responsible for innovation in their business

Previous city lecture

The Economist ‘s inaugural city lecture took place on Wednesday January 21^st 2009 in the City of London where Lord Turner, Chairman, Financial Services Authority, addressed an audience of 150 city leaders.

In his speech, entitled ‘The Financial Crisis and the future of financial regulation’ Lord Turner discussed the macroeconomic underpinnings of the crisis and outlined some of the regulatory failures which allowed banks and other financial institutions to increase leverage to unsustainable levels. While warning that no regulatory regime could hope to prevent crises in future, Lord Turner outlined some of the areas of that the FSA and other UK regulatory bodies are focusing on in an effort to craft new rules which will limit financial volatility in future. In particular, he discussed the so called "Spanish model" of monitoring bank capital adequacy, in which capital is built up in good times to provide a buffer against bad times. He also pointed out that the government's capital injections into the UK banking system in 2008 have created scope for banks to run down capital now without breaching regulatory standards.

His address came two months ahead of the review of banking supervision and regulation due for release in March.

Address from Lord Turner, Chairman, Financial Services Authority:

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