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Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein is sponsoring the 11th Annual Meeting of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) as an official partner. The theme of this year’s event is “Every degree matters – mobilising finance for people and planet”, and participants will have the opportunity to share ideas and develop new solutions for the finance sector to tackle the issue of climate change. The 11th GABV Annual Meeting will run from 24 to 27 February 2020. Hosted at the Bellevue Palace hotel in Bern, it will bring together more than 150 CEOs, board members and senior managers from over 60 financial institutes from around the world.

For the first time Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein will be a gold partner of the “Swiss Audit Championship 2019”, a serious virtual business game event, which targets interested parties with starter know-how in the field of auditing.

The conference will take place for the fifth time on Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at the SAL in Schaan and has the theme “Finance meets future”. The event was founded 5 years ago by the three students David Meyer, Sina Reubelt and Tobias Fitz of the University of Liechtenstein and has since developed into an important knowledge sharing and networking platform for the Liechtenstein financial market. In addition to interesting presentations, visitors can also look forward to inspiring workshops, which focus on the current topics and needs of the local financial sector.

Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein was the main sponsoring partner at this year's "Future Masters" golf tournament for the second year in a row. The "Future Masters" tournament was held on Saturday, 27 July 2019 at the Golf Club Bad Ragaz. The 18-hole Championship Course has been a member of the "World of Leading Golf" since 2018 and stretched passionate golfers to the limit. Surrounded by an impressive mountain panorama, the impeccably kept park in Bad Ragaz offered an unforgettable golfing experience. The Golf Clinic - the beginners' course on the driving range - was available to all the "not-yet golfers" on the day of the tournament. After the tournament, an entertaining supporting programme awaited the participants in the gladys restaurant along with a culinary evening menu.

Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein once again appeared as a sponsoring partner at the Finance Forum Liechtenstein held for the fifth time. The leading financial conference in Liechtenstein took place on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 in the Vaduzer Saal. The name given to this year’s conference, which networked around 600 decision-makers from the financial sector in the entire German-speaking region, was "Disruption in the financial sector 2019".

This March, Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein presented itself for the first time as co-partner of the “FinTech 2019 – Beyond Banking” finance and business forum. This year’s FinTech conference was held on Thursday, 14 March 2019 at The Dolder Grand in Zurich which some 280 people attended. The conference was dedicated to the ongoing digital evolution of the financial sector and addressed initial findings. Renowned experts presented specific business cases from the world of Fintech and Blockchain as well as from digital-native industries.

Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein is continuing to expand its sponsoring activities and was presenting itself as the main sponsor of this year’s “Future Masters” Golf Tournament in Bad Ragaz for the first time.

Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein is presenting itself as a sponsoring partner at this year’s Finance Forum Liechtenstein. The conference networks some 600 decision-makers from the financial sector and offers top-class speakers, interesting workshops and attractive networking platforms.