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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 9 OCTOBER 2022 14 COMMERCIAL THE UKRAINELECTRIC Party will raise funds in aid of the 'EverybodyCan Foundation' in Ukraine. The party will feature re- nowned local performing artists Tenisha, Ryan Spi- teri and New Even who are renowned for their electric dance sounds. Ukranian artists Illiam, 1lilstreet and Shawtyrain will also be playing their music. This one-time event is be- ing organised by the kENUP Foundation, a non-profit public benefit organisation based in Malta. Founded in 2014, the mission of the EverybodyCan foundation is to encourage volunteer- ing, to establish a respon- sible and tolerant society in the Ukraine and to help those who are most in need. The Foundation's work is particularly relevant in these troubled times. All proceeds from the tickets sales from this event will go to this charity campaign. For more information please visit: https://every- bodycan.com.ua UKRAINELECTRIC PAR- TY will be held on Friday the 14th October, 2022 at Aria Complex, Triq Ħal Għargħur, San Ġwann from 21:00hrs till late. Tickets: Standard €10 / VIP €20. Bookings: https:// w w w . s h o w s h a p p e n i n g . com/kENUP-Foundation/ UKRAINELECTRIC-PARTY UKRAINELECTRIC party in aid of charity FinanceMalta to host its 15th annual conference THE 15th FinanceMalta Annual Conference entitled "Learning from the past: Looking to the Future" will be held on 1 Decem- ber 2022 at the Intercontinental Arena Conference Centre. This will be the first fully in-person and face-to-face annual confer- ence to be organised since the pandemic and is considered to be the largest local gathering for the financial services industry. The conference will feature C-level executives from Malta and abroad, European Union policymakers, Maltese Govern- ment representatives, officials of global standard-setting organ- isations, renowned academics, researchers and more. The theme of this year's confer- ence reflects the challenges that the sector has gone through, and still is going through, in Malta as well as in other jurisdictions. These include the ongoing COV- ID-19 pandemic, the FATF grey listing and eventual white listing, the Russia-Ukraine war and the rapid increase in inflation and cost of living. FinanceMalta's event will fo- cus on the lessons learnt but also will take a look forward and see how, collectively, Malta can con- tinue to seize the opportunities for growth in financial services, amidst an ever-changing eco- nomic and regulatory environ- ment. The annual conference will fea- ture prominent keynote speakers from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Lon- don School of Economics (LSE) Law School and more. Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela and the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola will be addressing the conference. The event will be chaired by Deb- orah Webster. The annual conference will be opened by FinanceMalta's Chairman, and the first panel session will be titled "A look at our lessons and achievements in 2022". Ms Webster will moder- ate the panel discussion, which will include Dr. Helga Buttigieg Debono, Executive Head, Na- tional Coordinating Committee on Combating Money Laun- dering & Funding of Terrorism (NCC), the MFSA, the Director of the FIAU Kenneth Farrugia and MBR CEO Geraldine Spiteri Lucas as panellists. Plans for the financial services industry for 2023 and beyond will be the main theme of a live panel session moderated by The Malta Chamber President Marisa Xuereb. Panellists for this session include Malta Financial Services Advisory Council Chairman Jo- seph Zammit Tabona, Economist Gordon Cordina and Institute of Financial Services Practitioners President Tonio Zarb. Banking in Malta in the context of European regulatory develop- ments will take centre stage in a panel session that will include Fabio Axisa, Chairman of the Banking and Payments working group within the MFSAC's Ac- tion Committee; MBA Chairman Marcel Cassar; and MFSA's Head of Supervision David Eacott. In the afternoon, the focus will shift on to Sustainable Finance. A fireside chat will take place which will be moderated by financial consultant Steve Ellul, with the participation of Professor Andre- as Hoepner and Gabriella Borda, Co-Founder Avvena - Sustaina- bility and Decarbonisation Ad- visor. The annual conference will then discuss Good Governance. Trust in the reliability of the fi- nancial system is crucial in order to contribute to the proper func- tioning of the economy and good governance is a prerequisite to build such trust. This theme will be debated in a panel session facilitated by Ther- isa Mallia, Lead, Policy, Adviso- ry & Training, Anti-Financial Crime Department at Bank of Valletta. She will be joined by Carmine Di Noia, Director of the OECD's Directorate for Finan- cial and Enterprise Affairs; FATF President for 2020-2022 Mar- cus Pleyer; and Manfred Galdes, Managing Partner at ARQ Malta. The conference will also delve into the topic of Digital Revo- lution and Digital Finance. The adoption of the European Com- mission's digital finance package which includes a digital finance strategy, legislative proposals on crypto-assets and digital resil- ience, as well as a renewed retail payments strategy, will be dis- cussed during this session. A fireside chat on these themes will be led by Wayne Pisani, Chairman of the Regulated Busi- ness Subcommittee at IFSP, who will be joined by Dr Phillip Paech, Associate Professor of Law at LSE Law School as well as GTG Advocates Managing Director Ian Gauci. The closing session of Finance- Malta's 15th Annual Conference will delve into how the sector can attract and develop talent, upskill and reskill the workforce, as well as retain existing talent. The final panel session for the day, moderated by Talent Advi- sor and Headhunter Fran Moisa, will include Matthew Vella, Per- manent Secretary for the Minis- try for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation; Iden- tity Malta CEO Mark Mallia; Di- rector of the Institute of Business Management and Commerce at MCAST Andrew Galea; and the Dean of the Faculty of Econom- ics, Management & Accountancy at the University of Malta, Ema- nuel Said. A networking event for dele- gates and speakers will be held on the eve of the annual conference, on 30 November, at the Magazi- no Hall in Valletta. The annual conference of Fi- nanceMalta also offers the pos- sibility to companies to increase their visibility through a number of sponsorship packages. For more information on the Fi- nanceMalta Annual Conference, sponsorship opportunities as well as to register and benefit from the early bird offers, visit https:// www.fmannualconference.org/