The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity

The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity (LIGFI), an independent non-profit association, announces its first Luxembourg Monthly Finance Lunch, set for Wednesday 25th of November 2009.

The first keynote speaker will be Luxembourg Finance Minister Luc Frieden who will start off the lunch cycle on the theme “A political view on ethics in business”.

The purpose of the lunch is twofold: (1) providing the opportunity of hearing a personality of authority and international recognition present his opinion on current issues affecting the global financial sector; and, (2) serving as a venue at which people can meet and engage in dialogue. The lunch is open to all. LIGFI hopes to attract participants from Luxembourg, its neighboring countries and beyond.

Lunch participants can register by downloading the registration form on LIGFI’s website “www.ligfi.org” or by emailing Gilbert McNeill, Executive Director, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Seating is limited and will be filled on a first-come-first-serve basis, with priority to LIGFI members.

 

Event Details

The Luxembourg Monthly Finance Lunch is held at the Cercle Munster, 5-7, rue Munster, L‑2160 Luxembourg City. The event starts at 11:45 a.m. with drinks, followed by lunch at 12:15 p.m. The event is concluded by 2:00 p.m.

The lunch fee of 50 € is to be paid at the Cercle Munster prior to the lunch.

The registration form can be returned via email to “ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ” or by mail to the Cercle Munster. The deadline for registration to the lunch of Wednesday 25th of November 2009 is Friday 20th of November 2009.

 

About LIGFI

The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity LIGFI is a non-profit association, an association sans but lucratif (a.s.b.l.), under Luxembourg law.

Founded by private citizens from Europe and The United States, under the auspices of Jacques Santer, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Commission, LIGFI’s mission is to address the ethics and integrity of the global financial sector and the social responsibility practiced by all of its stakeholders.

 

For more information, please contact Gilbert McNeill, President of the Executive Committee & Executive Director, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or refer to the institute’s website at www.ligfi.org

 

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The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity (LIGFI), an independent non-profit association, is now active and engaged in recruiting members and partners within and outside the global financial sector.

Created in May 2009, LIGFI aims to serve as a center of excellence and a forum through empirical research and constructive and open dialogue with the purpose of encouraging widespread use of the principles of integrity of fairness, transparency, responsibility and accountability. The bottom line is to restore trust and confidence in the financial sector worldwide, especially among investors, shareholders and other stakeholders who are directly or indirectly affected by financial activity.

LIGFI calls for banks, other financial services and service providers to the financial sector to join the association and participate in activities to develop and promote business standards and practices based on professional excellence, ethics and integrity.

Members will be called upon to financially support the LIGFI association through membership dues and/or grants and to shape and actively participate in its research work addressing corporate financial governance and market integrity.

The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity therefore invites all financial sector stakeholders to join as members or partners and to contribute to the challenging undertaking that LIGFI is committed to assume as a non-profit association and industry association.

In order to encourage a constructive and open dialogue, LIGFI has launched a blog on its website (www.ligfi.org) and looks forward to communicating with all parties having diverse opinions and perspectives on the issues facing the financial sector worldwide, national financial centers and jurisdictions.

 

 About LIGFI

The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity LIGFI is a non-profit association, an association sans but lucratif (a.s.b.l.), under Luxembourg law.

Founded by private citizens from Europe and The United States, under the auspices of Jacques Santer, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Commission, LIGFI’s mission is to address the ethics and integrity of the global financial sector and the social responsibility practiced by all of its stakeholders.

 

For more information, please contact Gilbert McNeill, President of the Executive Committee & Executive Director, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or refer to the institute’s website at www.ligfi.org

 

Download press release document in English.

Download der Pressemitteilung auf Deutsch.

Télécharger le communiqué de presse en Français.

 

The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity announced its constitution today. Founded by private citizens from Europe and The United States, under the auspices of Jacques Santer, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Commission, the institute is a nonprofit organization, that addresses the integrity of the global financial sector and the social responsibility practiced by all of its stakeholders.
According to Mr. Santer, “We recognized that the global financial sector is in need of stronger ethical practices and standards based on the principles of integrity: transparency, fairness, responsibility and accountability”.
Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, has given his personal endorsement and support to the institute in recognition of the need for a private, independent and impartial body that will group corporate, academic and non-governmental organizations, in Luxembourg and abroad who are engaged in the global financial sector, together to solve the challenges faced by the global financial sector pertaining to crime, such as fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering, and to the funding of criminal activity and terrorism.
As a newly created nonprofit organization, The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity, is now enrolling members who will be active in all aspects of the institute. Banks, institutions and service providers in the global financial markets are being invited to join the institute. Research Fellows and Visiting Research Fellows are being sought out and brought on board. Collaboration is being established with universities, think-tanks and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) engaged in social responsibility and transparency within the global financial sector.
The institute will initiate its first open dialogue within the global financial sector and with public and private institutions by organizing a Conference on ”Ethics, bank secrecy and fiscal paradise” in Luxembourg on the 10th and 11th of December, 2009.
For more information please contact Gilbert McNeill, President of the Executive Committee & Executive Director, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or refer to the institute’s website at www.ligfi.org