SHANGHAI– On January 11, 2010, the Global Interdependence Center (GIC) will kick off its 2010 International Conference Series, “Financial Interdependence in the World’s Post-Crisis Capital Markets” with a full day conference taking place at Fudan University entitled, “One Country, Two Systems: Impacts after the Financial Crisis, a dialogue in China’s Emerging and Mature Financial Centers and Markets”

Shanghai, China – January 11, 2010. The first of this four-part global conference series will center around the theme, “One Country, Two Systems: Impacts after the Financial Crisis, a dialogue in China’s Emerging and Mature Financial Centers and Markets.” The conference series will include a full day program coordinated in partnership with Fudan University in Shanghai.

Conference Summary:
Through a series of globally arranged conferences on several continents, GIC plans to convene worldwide meetings to discuss the new post-crisis interdependencies among and between financial market agents. We will examine newly expanded roles for governments, central banks, NGOs and private financial and non-financial businesses. Each country or region visited will include a public seminar where prominent presenters and discussants will address specific issues of financial interdependence. World capital flows, central bank independence, reserve currency status, fiscal policy changes, and credit market structures are among the topics that will be examined.

Because the world is not yet out of financial and economic danger, the commercial real estate crisis worsens, certain classes of securities remain un-priced and un-cleared, these discussions gain even more relevancy. The number of conferences and their venues could increase as the turmoil continues which is why we are setting aside two years for our planning purposes. Programs are confirmed in Hanoi, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Philadelphia, Santiago, Prague and Paris.