The Fifth Annual Conference took place in Rio de Janeiro in November 2006. The Conference was hosted by Fundo Garantidor de Creditos-FGC (Brazil) at the Copacabana Palace Hotel from 15 to 17 November 2006. It was chaired by Antonio Carlos Bueno de Camargo Silva, CEO of FGC, Chair of the 2006 Conference Task Force, and member of the Executive Council of IADI.
The Conference was held under the theme "Raising the Bar" and the program featured presentations by internationally recognized experts and deposit insurance practitioners, regulators, policymakers and academics. Attention was focused on the discussion papers being developed by the Research and Guidance Committee, namely, governance, funding, claims and recoveries, mandates, as well as an important new training initiative for deposit insurance executives. The audience of 175 was truly international in scope as over 50 jurisdictions were represented.