In the Company of Visions
A three-volume book of strategic conversations on the global networked economy: "the art of vision", "capital markets without borders" and "the network is the vision" launched in April 2000 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York with Instinet support, in partnership with Ernst & Young, the Edmond Israel Foundation and SWIFT.

As globalization points toward deeper integration, financial institutions find themselves at the forefront of companies setting the benchmarks for guiding visions.

In the Company of Visions' three volumes seek insights on essential aspects of wealth creation in the 21st century: the art of vision and governance; new models, strategies and oversight for capital markets without borders; networks and visions transforming finance.

Eminent artists, chairpersons and CEOs of leading financial institutions, regulators and thinkers join PROMETHEE and its corporate partners in a lively dialogue combining intuition and analysis, in the company of visions…

volume 1
Strategic conversations on
visions of art, art of vision
In cooperation with Ernst & Young
Setting the tone in a spirit of insightful exploration, Visions of Art, Art of Vision brings together visionaries and practitioners to share –or to contrast– how they see, understand and experience the ongoing global transformation. Albert Bressand and Catherine Distler build on PROMETHEE's work on the “global networked society” to engage these eminent artists, thinkers and doers into a fruitful dialogue on the art and discipline of vision.

Ernst & Young, a leading global firm for professional services, has supported this dialogue as part of a thought leadership initiative that led to previous publications with PROMETHEE on The euro at the vanguard of global integration (1998) and The two-currency world (1999).

Edited by
Albert Bressand, Ph.D. and Catherine Distler
Dashrath Patel, painter and sculptor (Ahmedabad, India)
Robert A. Mundell, Nobel laureate
Antonio Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal
Erró, painter (Reykjavik/Paris)
Joseph S. Nye, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Rolf-E. Breuer, chairman, Deutsche Bank
Nam June Paik, multimedia artist (South Korea/New York)
Keith Todd, CEO, ICL
Alvin Toffler, thinker
Dani Karavan, sculptor (Tel Aviv/Paris)
Ged Davis, head of scenarios, Shell International
André Lussi, president and CEO, Clearstream International
Jaap Kamp, chairman, ABN AMRO

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ISBN 2-907587-04-8

volume 2
Strategic conversations on
capital market without borders
In partnership with the Edmond Israel Foundation
The volume Capital markets without borders explores how stock exchanges, depositories, clearing and settlement companies and new entrants react to the triple challenge of electronic trading, cross-border market integration and demutualization. Prepared in partnership with the Edmond Israel Foundation, this volume contributes to the dialogues on European and global market infrastructures and on the search for new levels of governance.

Contributors are CEOs and chairpersons of major financial institutions as well as the leading regulators from the United States and Europe. The book builds on the Vision for Europe Award of the Edmond Israel Foundation (Luxembourg), and on the process of “thinking without borders” that it fosters.

Edited by
Albert Bressand, Ph.D.
with Catherine Distler
Vision for Europe:
Willem F. Duisenberg, president European Central Bank
Strategic conversations with:
Douglas M. Atkin (president & CEO, Instinet, New-York), Howard Davies (chairman, Financial Services Authority, London), Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter (CEO, Swiss Exchange - SWX), Anthony W. Kirby (Executive Director, Global Straight Through Processing Association - GSTPA), Pascal Lamy (Commissioner, European Commission), Arthur Levitt Jr. (chairman, Securities Exchange Commission - SEC, Washington DC), Robert A. Mundell (Nobel laureate), Michel Prada (chairman, Commission des Opérations de Bourse - COB), Neil Record (chairman, Record Treasury Management, London), Stephan Schuster (managing director, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt), Jean-François Théodore (chairman, ParisBourse), Jean-Claude Trichet (Governor, Banque de France), Georg Wittich (chairman, Federation of European Securities Commissions)
Foreword:
André Lussi (chairman, Edmond Israel Foundation)
Postface:
Romano Prodi (president, European Commission)

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ISBN 2-907587-05-6

volume 3
Strategic conversations on
the network is the vision
In cooperation with SWIFT
The volume The Network is the Vision capitalizes on the Sibos “critical dialogue” catalyzed by SWIFT and, more broadly, on the SWIFT and PROMETHEE networks. The business implications of networks are discussed in terms of three strategic levels of operational excellence, of value-adding and of the architectures influencing re/dis-intermediation. The central focus is the e-challenge and the transformations it implies for market infrastructures, financial value chains, trust, governance and corporate identities.

Contributors are CEOs or Chairpersons of leading financial institutions (ABN AMRO, CrestCo, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, SWIFT) as well as eminent regulators (European Central Bank) and CEOs of innovative e-corporations (Bolero, Bermuda Stock Exchange, CLS, Identrus, GTA).

Edited by
Albert Bressand, Ph.D.
with Catherine Distler
Perspectives on e-identities by:
Rolf-E. Breuer, (spokesman of the Board, Deutsche Bank), Jan Kalff (chairman of the managing board, ABN AMRO), Sir George R. Mathewson (CEO, Royal Bank of Scotland), John S. Reed (chairman & co-CEO, Citigroup)
Strategic conversations with:
Peter W. Allsopp (CEO, Allsopp Consultancy Services), Charles Bryant (member of the executive committee, SWIFT), Hermann-Josef Lamberti (member of the Board, Deutsche Bank), Dr. Martin Kohlhaussen (Chairman of the Board, Commerzbank), Barry Morse (CEO, Bolero International Ltd.), Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (member of the executive Board, European Central Bank, Frankfurt), Larry Recknagel (CEO, CLS Services, New York/London), Iain Saville (CEO, CrestCo), Arthur B. Sculley (chairman, Bermuda Stock Exchange), Guy Tallent (chairman and CEO, Identrus)
Introductory dialogue:
Jean-Marie Weydert (chairman of the Board, SWIFT)
Conclusion:
Leonard H. Schrank (CEO, SWIFT)

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ISBN 2-907587-06-4