Overview Previous Conferences

Since 1958, the ICLC has organized conferences on a wide variety of subjects. The complete list is given below.

 

1. Oslo, October 1958 

     Preparatory meeting.

 

2. Vienna, May 1959  

     Participation in and organisation of the Centre.

 

3. Paris, May 1960  

     The inquiry into the assessment of the creditworthiness of municipalities of   financial institutions;

     The adaption of local requirements of long-term credit to the capabilities of financial institutions:

     The part played by the financial institutions in the financing of the local authorities' contribution towards industrialisation.

 

4. Brussels, December 1960  

     The way in which the investment capital requirements of local government authorities are covered.

 

5. Dusseldorf, November 1961

     The way in which the local authorities' investment capital requirements are met in various countries and possible means of improving it;

     The use of the money loans as a means of financing the expenditure of local authorities.

 

6. Madrid, October 1962 

     Government measures to stimulate regional economic development in various countries.

 

7. Rome, September 1963

     International movement of capital and the capital needs of local authorities.

 

8. Amsterdam, April 1965

     The cyclical policy of the central government - the intervention of the municipalities and their specialised finance institutions in this policy.

 

9. Lisbon, October 1966 

     Relation central authority - local authority credit institutions - local authorities.

 

10. Tel-Aviv, April 1968

     Human relations, internal as well as external, as handled by the member-institutions.

 

11. Vienna, October 1969 

     Local authority finance requirements for investment purposes and the way in which these requirements can be met, including the raising of loans on the international capital market if necessary.

 

12. Istanbul, June 1971

     Issues and loans on the international capital market on behalf of local authorities;

     Short-term credit transactions between member-institutions of the Centre;

     The effect of the rising level of interest rates and the limitation of the supply of loan capital on the activities of local authorities and local authority credit institutions.

 

13. Tokyo, October 1972

     Effects and limits of local indebtedness.

 

14. Oslo, June 1974 

     Meeting the capital requirements of local authorities by member-institutions for local credit.

 

15. Madrid, September 1976

     The role of local authorities and local credit institutions in government economic policy: possibilities and limits.

 

16. London, April 1978

     The economic and financial problems of cities in general;

     Financial problems of cities in the countries of member-institutions of the Centre.

 

Symposium Brussels, November 1978

     The financial consequences of the position and tasks of cities.

 

17. Rome, October 1979

     The effect of economic development on forms of saving and interest rates;

     New methods and/or forms of granting loans to local authorities.

 

18. Tel-Aviv, May 1981

     Staff participation;

     Transactions of Centre members on foreign capital markets.

 

19. Bordeaux, October 1982

     Local authority financial planning and its significance for the local authority banks;

     The operations of the local authorities and the member institutions of the Centre on the foreign capital markets.

 

20. Copenhagen, May 1984 

     Consequences of the crisis for the finances of local authorities; influences on relations between local authorities and their credit institutions;

     Interest rate expectations for Europe; determining factors.

 

21. Brussels, October 1985

     The status of the organisations specialising in municipal credit from the perspective of law, finance, taxation and staffing.

 

22. Helsinki, May 1987

     Local authorities system of acquiring income (including local taxes) and the degree of autonomy in this respect at a time of diminishing economic opportunities.

 

23. The Hague, September 1988 

     New ways of financing local investment;

     Capital formation and capital ratios of municipal credit banks/present situation and expected development.

 

24. Vienna, April 1990

     Which local authorities can borrow in foreign currency and how their creditworthiness is          secured;

     Project financing

 

25. Berlin, September 1991

     Housing as a public service;

     The solvency of local authorities.

 

26. Madrid, April 1993

     The new risk weightings and their applications to local credits;

     Financing structural facilities in Europe.

 

27. Jerusalem, October 1994 

     The development of regional cooperation among Nordic local government funding agencies;

     Risk-management by topmanagement.

 

28. Lisbon, April 1996

     The Economic Monetary Union;

     The use of derivatives by local authorities.

 

29. Tokyo, September 1997

     New Ways of Intermediation

 

30. Bergen, June 1999

     Local Finance Development in Eastern  Europe

     ‘Muni’market – Municipal Finance in the USA

     Local Finance Tour of Europe

 

31. Brussels, October 2000 

     Local authority finance and coming changes in the regulatory framework
      a) Regulation and pricing in the credit and capital markets
      b) Regulatory framework, past and future
      c) Europe and local authority finance
      d) Local authorities and regulations

 

32. Rome, April 2002

     Structural developments in the international   monetary system and the capital markets

 

33. Victoria, September 2003 

     After the bourse crash of 2001/2002/2003

     Funding the funders of local government

 

34. Vienna, May 2005 

     Non accounted forms of funding

 

35. Paris, November 2006

     The changing role of the local public sector worlwide and to the center member's part in its

     financing