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In October 2007, Money Conferences (www.moneyconferences.com) organized its first conference entitled "CEO & CSR 2007: Mainstreaming Corporate Social Responsibility in Business Strategy". A number of distinguished guests from Greece and abroad have participated in this very successful conference. The success continued with the second CSR conference entitled "CEO & CSR 2008: Rethinking the way we do business", in May 2008, and the "South-East Europe Banking Conference", in June 2008.

The aim of the organisers is the events of Money Conferences to be Greece's most prominent annual events and the platform where corporate executives have the opportunity to network, do business and engage in an open and constructive dialogue with top experts and fellow corporate leaders.

The South-East Europe Banking Conference 2008 has been attended by 200 business leaders, senior executives, top experts and media representatives from Greece and overseas. The conference featured a healthy mix of speeches, plenary discussions and workshops. The four key panels focused on "The Repercussions Of The Global Credit Crunch", "Risk Management: A Crucial Factor For Bank Development", "The Dilemma of Banks: Intra-market or Cross-Border M&A?" and the "Opportunities & Challenges for Banks in Servicing Companies in the South-East Europe Region".
The opening address of last year's Conference has been delivered by Mr. John Pehlivanidis, Vice-president and Deputy Managing Director of National Bank of Greece, while the list of distinguished speakers included, amongst others, Mr. Peter C. Oppenheimer, Chief European Equity Strategist and Head of the European Strategy Group, Goldman Sachs, Mr. Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of the Supervision of Credit and Related Financial Institutions Department, Bank of Greece, Mr. Kyriakos Sabatakis, President and CEO of Accenture and Mr. Istvan Lengyel, Secretary General of the Banking Association for Central and Eastern Europe.

This year's South-East Europe Investment Conference 2008 aims to explore various current and profit-making investment issues in the region of South-East Europe. The first session entitled "Real-Estate Investment opportunities in South-East Europe and how to be at the winners' side" will present the trends in the region's Real-Estate market and provide practical advice on the right timing and method for one to invest in this demanding market. The second session "Private Banking in South-East Europe: The challenge of offering quality services in the region" will focus on measuring the size and the growth of the Private Banking market in the South-East Europe, as well as the tactics used by Greek and International investment houses to win over the market. The third session "Investing in enterprises of South-East Europe: What changes in the aftermath of the international crisis" will explore the level of attractiveness of investments in enterprises of the South-East Europe, listed or not, and the sectors which still offer investment opportunities. Finally, the forth session "Shipping companies: Financing and investment opportunities" aims at analyzing the market conditions of this interesting and changing sector, revealing to the banks the financing opportunities in the shipping sector and to the investors the secrets of a successful investment in a listed shipping company.

The conference's highlight will be the presentation of the renewed magazine «HRIMA», with respect to its creative concept, its content and its partners.
The complete re-design of the magazine took place in the occasion of the 20-years celebrations since its first publication.

The conference will close with the ceremony of "Business Awards HRIMA- George Ouzounis 2008".  The candidates will be selected by the Editing Committee of HRIMA magazine, while the award winners will be electronically voted by the 49,000 readers of the magazine. The voting will take place in early October 2008.