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The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System invite you to attend Innovative Financial Services for the Underserved: Opportunities and Outcomes, the sixth biennial Community Affairs Research Conference to encourage objective research into financial services issues affecting low- and moderate-income individuals, families, and communities.
This year's conference explores the role, processes and outcomes of innovation in financial services for low- and moderate-income consumers and underserved populations. Leading researchers will present original and objective research that can inform innovative market and product development through a framework that moves from:
- individual consumer preferences and behaviors with focus on consumer finance products, to
- influences that affect market participation such as financial education and institutional structures, to
- effects of mortgage products on both performance and wealth creation, to
- approaches for shaping market participation.
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Confirmed speakers include:
- Ben S. Bernanke
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Thomas M. Hoenig
President
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
- Honorable Rev. Floyd H. Flake
Senior Pastor
Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York
- More than 20 panelists from national research, policy and practitioner organizations
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This conference will be of interest to:
- Executives, lenders, and compliance and community development officers of financial institutions;
- Leaders and staff of community and economic development organizations;
- Policymakers in community and economic development; and
- Scholars of economics, finance and banking, and urban and rural development.
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The conference will be held on April 16-17, 2009 at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Hotel in Washington, DC. Registration for the conference is $375 per participant.
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