European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum

A European financial services industry lobby group set up to get close to MEPs. It is run by John Houston of Houston Consulting, the lobbying and PR firm.
==Founding members==
*Richard Balfe MEP 	 	
*Carles-Alfred Gasoliba i Bohm MEP 	 		 	
*Robert Goebbels MEP
*Chris Huhne MEP 		
*Othmar Karas MEP 	 		 	
*Giorgos Katiforis MEP
*Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP 		
*Astrid Lulling MEP 	 		 	
*Ria Oomen-Ruitjen MEP
*John Purvis MEP 		 	
*Alexander Radwan MEP 	 		 
*Karin Riis-Jorgensen MEP
*Olle Schmidt MEP 		 	
*Peter Skinner MEP 	 		 	
*Charles Tannock MEP
*Theresa Villiers MEP
==Steering Committee==
The following are the members of the Forum's Steering Committee, which, together with Financial Industry Members, are the governing body of the Forum.
*Peter Skinner MEP (PES/UK) - Chair
	
*Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP (EPP-ED/Finland) - Vice Chair
*Margarita Starkeviciute MEP (ALDE/Lithuania) - Vice Chair
===Members===
	
*Zsolt László Becsey MEP (EPP-ED/Hungary)
	
*Pervenche Berès MEP (PES/France) 	
*Manuel António dos Santos MEP (PES/Portugal)
	
*Jonathan Evans MEP (EPP-ED/UK)
	
*Robert Goebbels MEP (PES/Luxembourg)
	
*Wolf Klinz MEP (ALDE/Germany)
	
*Astrid Lulling MEP (EPP-ED/Luxembourg)
	
*Gay Mitchell TD MEP (EPP-ED/Ireland)
	
*Alexander Radwan MEP (EPP-ED/Germany)
	
*Dariusz Rosati MEP (PES/Poland)
	
*Ieke van den Burg MEP (PES/Netherlands)
*Sophia in 't Veld MEP (ALDE/Netherlands)
	 
==Industry members==
===Chairman=== 
*Mrs. Judith Hardt
::Federation of European Securities Exchanges Members (FESE)
===Members===
 Mrs. Lie Junius
 ABN AMRO Bank
 Mrs. Florence Lombard
 The Alternative Investment Management Association Ltd (AIMA) 
 Mr. David Bennett
 Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers (APCIMS)
 Mr. Jacques Maire
 AXA 
 Mr. Javier Arias
 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
 Mrs. Christine Farnish
 Barclays plc 
 Mrs. Dominique Graber
 BNP Paribas 
 Mr. Kurt Schacht
 Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA) 
 Mrs. Susanne Denison-Knowles
 Citigroup 
 Mr. Helmuth Martin
 Commerzbank AG 
 Mr. Ansgar Tietmeyer
 Deutsche Bank AG 
 Mrs. Henriette Peucker
 Deutsche Börse AG
 Mr. Henning Schoppmann
 European Association of Public Banks (EAPB) 
 Mr. Guido Ravoet
 European Banking Federation (EBF)
 Mrs. Annik Lambert
 European Mortgage Federation (EMF)
 Mr. Chris De Noose
 European Savings Banks Group (ESBG) 
 Mr. Paul Symons
 Euroclear 
 Mr. Antonio Hernandez Laviades
 Euronext 
 Mrs. Michaela Koller
 European Insurance and Reinsurance Federation (CEA) 
 Mr. Javier Echarri
 European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) 
 Mr. Henri Olivier
 European Federation of Accountants (FEE) 
 Mr. Anthony Belchambers
 Futures and Options Association (FOA) - describes itself as a founding member on its website FOA, About Us, accessed 20 May 2012 
 Mr. Freddy Van den Spiegel
 Fortis Bank 
 Mr. Richard O'Toole
 Goldman Sachs International
 Mr. Gregor Pozniak
 International Capital Market Association (ICMA) 
 Mr. David Pollard
 ING 
 Mrs. Alessandra Perrazzelli
 Intesa Sanpaolo 
 Mr. Roger Cogan
 International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) 
 Mr. Richard Kaye
 JP Morgan 
 Mr. Jonathan Taylor
 London Investment Banking Association (LIBA) 
 Mr. Alastair Evans
 Lloyd's 
 Mr. Roger Grazebrook
 Lloyds TSB 
 Mr. Christoph Baert
 MasterCard Europe
 Mr. Mitchell Coen
 Merrill Lynch 
 Mr. Hannu Halttunen
 Nordea Bank Finland
 Mrs. Sally Padget
 Prudential plc
 Mr. Howard Davies
 Royal Bank of Scotland 
 Mr. Bertrand Huet
 The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) 
 Mr. Frédéric de Brouwer
 Société Générale 
 Mr. Christopher Lake
 Standard and Poor's
 Mr. Pehr Wissén
 Svenska Handelsbanken
 Mr. Jon Carr
 UBS AG
 Mr. Peter Rieger
 UniCredit Group 
 Mr. Peter Moller Jensen
 VISA Europe 
 Mrs. MP Azevedo
 Western Union International Bank
===Secretary=== 
*Ms. Gabriela Diezhandino
::EPFSF Secretariat
::+32 2 504 80 40
==Contact==
Website: http://www.epfsf.org/
==Notes==
Category:Financial sector lobbying