35th ECBC Plenary Meeting – Porto
The 35th edition brought together more than 200 key decision makers including issuers, investors, government and regulatory officials at national, European and global levels, analysts, rating agencies and journalists. The official Brochure for the 35th ECBC Plenary Meeting can be accessed here. Please find below links via which you can access the slides used by our guest speakers during both the main ECBC Plenary Meeting and the previous day's EMF-ECBC Academy Training & Market Update. The EMF-ECBC Academy section also includes links to the videos where you can watch a number of the presentations made during the Training Session. Finally, access to an online photo library where you can view and download photos from the events is provided at the bottom of this page. You will find below the presentation from our guest speaker, Ms Sandra Cardoso (Portuguese Securities Market Commission - CMVM).
You will find below the presentation from our guest speaker, Ms Sandra Cardoso (Portuguese Securities Market Commission – CMVM)
The Regulatory Framework for Covered Bonds in Portugal
Sandra Cardoso
Head of the Issuers Department
Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM)

EMF-ECBC ACADEMY Training & market update
In the context of the 35th ECBC Plenary Meeting, we were delighted to host the third EMF-ECBC Academy & Market Update, which this time focused on “Capital Markets Union: Impacts of Basel III, Valuation, ESG & Sustainable Finance Debates” and was delivered by a great line-up of expert speakers, including Mr Joost Beaumont (ABN AMRO), Mr Wolfgang Kälberer (EMF-ECBC), Ms Anna Pinedo (Mayer Brown), Mr Georges Gras (Bloomberg), Mr Alexander Aronsohn (International Valuation Standards Council), Mr Gianluca Mattarocci (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Mr Patrick Seifert (LBBW), Mr Bodo Winkler ( BerlinHyp) and Mr Miguel García De Eulate Martín ( Caja Rural de Navarra).
Topics covered included Covered Bond Market Dynamics, ESG Covered Bonds, Global Developments, Global Housing Finance, to name but a few.

Joost Beaumont (ABN AMRO Bank) – Insights in Covered Bond Statistics
Wolfgang Kälberer (EMF-ECBC) – Basel III & CRR III: Main Conclusions from a Mortgage Lenders’ and Covered Bond Issuers’ Perspective
Anna Pinedo (Mayer Brown) – US Basel III Endgame: Proposed Overhaul of Regulatory Capital Requirements
Georges Gras (Bloomberg) – Bloomberg Basel III Regulatory Data
Alexander Aronsohn (International Valuation Standards Council) – Property Valuation and Setting Standards in a Secured Lending Environment
Gianluca Mattarocci (University of Rome Tor Vergata) – Climate Risk: Physical Risk & Expected Loss
Patrick Seifert (LBBW) & Bodo Winkler (BerlinHyp) – The Digital Future
Miguel García De Eulate Martín (Caja Rural de Navarra) – Building a Green, Taxonomy aligned Covered Bond Programme
