Pro- and anti-offshore senior figures in the public and private sectors discuss the impact of the global recession and political and legislative initiatives to clamp down on tax evasion and other financial crimes.

• How have the core offshore sectors of banking, financial and corporate services, insurance and hedge funds coped with the turmoil?
• Which jurisdictions are hurting, surviving or thriving?
• What other political and legislative initiatives are in the works?
• What is a sustainable business model for OFCs in the modern era?

For over 20 years, private banker Rudolf Elmer worked for the Bank Julius Baer group, first in Switzerland, then in the Cayman Islands, where he was Chief Operating Officer until he was dismissed in 2002. Now living in his native Switzerland, Mr. Elmer has turned whistleblower, accusing Julius Baer of helping its clients to commit tax evasion on a grand scale.

In his first public appearance, Mr. Elmer will discuss the circumstances surrounding his departure from Julius Baer, the inner workings of the bank while he worked there, his evidence of tax evasion and his decision to pass on information about the bank's clients to the world's tax authorities.

The US authorities handsomely pay whistleblowers whose information leads to the recovery of assets. Our panel will discuss how Whistleblower programs work, including those run by the IRS and, in response to the recent glut of major fraud cases, a proposed new program by the SEC couched in The Investor Protection Act of 2009, which is designed to reward whistleblowers in securities fraud actions by paying them up to 30% of monetary sanctions of more than $1 million.

This session will also look at the pros and cons of convicted criminal Bradley Birkenfeld's attempt to claim "billions of dollars" for whistleblowing on his former employer, UBS.

Soccer is the world's most popular sport and the FIFA World Cup – which will next be held in South Africa between June 11 and July 11, 2010 – is the world's biggest sporting event, bigger even than The Olympics.

British investigative reporter and film-maker Andrew Jennings will present evidence of bribery and corruption on a grand scale involving the most senior figures in soccer's governing body, FIFA, and CONCACAF, which governs the sport in the North America, Central America and the Caribbean.

Among other things, you will learn how corruption determines which countries host the highly-lucrative, four-yearly World Cup tournament, not the quality of bids.

Mr. Jennings poses the questions:

• Why do the world's major governments, including the USA and the UK (which are both currently attempting to hold near-future World Cups) and other major countries tolerate such conduct if they are serious about clamping down on serious financial crime?
• Why do banks ignore glaring red flags and continue to launder funds for those involved?
• Has soccer become so big that it is off-limits to regulators and law enforcement?
• Is this yet another example of Switzerland – where FIFA is headquartered – willfully turning a blind eye to financial crime on a massive scale?