Argentina Trade & Export Finance Forum

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Description

Hear the experts, listen to the locals, maximise your contacts

A two-day forum in Buenos Aires, sponsored by Standard Bank, BBVA and Fimbank, gathering together senior-level of financiers, risk managers, traders and corporates with a particular interest in Argentine market opportunities.

The hot topics being covered are:
-post-crisis environment
-ratings perspective
-corporate viewpoints
-forfaiting and factoring
-solutions for financing soft commodities
-warehousing and security issues
-relationships within Latin America
-ECA coverage
-political risks

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Programme

Day One

08.30 Registration

09.00 Chairman's opening remarks
Ramon Gonzalez Nuñez, Head of Trade Finance - Sales Cash Management & Trade, BankBoston Argentina NA

09.10 Keynote speaker
Arnaldo Bocco, Director, Banco Central de la Republica Argentina

09.30 Has Argentina done enough to restore foreign investors' confidence?
Carlos Caicedo, Head of Latin America Division, Exclusive Analysis

10.10 Argentina: Can recovery be sustained?
Lorna Martin, Managing Director, Fitch Argentina

10.50 Networking Break

11.20  Legal aspects of trade finance in Argentina
Ignacio Nicholson, Partner, Hope Duggan & Silva – Abogados

12.00 Strengths and weaknesses of the Argentine wheat trade
Sean Cameron, AAPROTRIGO – Asociacion Argentina Pro Trigo

12.30 Lunch

14.15 Forfaiting, an effective source of financing
Ramon Gonzalez Nuñez, Head of Trade Finance – Sales Cash Management & Trade, BankBoston Argentina NA         

14.45 Factoring:  A structured product to support trade in Argentina
Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger, President, Fimbank;
Alberto Jose Wyderka, Senior Vice-President, Trade Finance Head, Banco de Galicia

15.15 Networking Break

15.45 International trade in Argentina
Alejandro Chiaradia, Head of Global Trade Finance, BBVA Banco Francés Argentina; Mariana Cordero, Relationship Manager, Global Trade Finance, BBVA Banco Francés Argentina

16.20 Risk mitigation in trade and export finance:  Collateral management and surveillance
Cristian Czar, Collateral Manager, SGS Argentina

17.00  Closing remarks for day one, followed by networking reception

Day Two

09.30 Political risk: The private market’s perspective
Anne Marie Thurber, Senior Vice-President, Zurich Emerging Markets Solutions

10.00 Networking Break

10.30 Winds of change: Latin America’s place among the world’s shifting trade blocs
Carlos St. James, Managing Director, Santiago & Sinclair, LLC

11.00 Brazil, Argentina and South America:  New steps towards integrations
Angela Carvalho, Head of Foreign Trade for South America, BNDES

11.30 Bolivia:  Important strategic move to Venezuela
Thiago de Aragão, Director of Political Risk Analysis, Latin America, Arko Advice

12.00 China and Argentina:  Increasing trade relations
Luis Bussio, Secretary-General, Argentine Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry

12.30 Close of conference followed by lunch

Sponsors

Sponsorship opportunities including exhibition stands are available for this event.

To become a sponsor, please contact Tom Whitehead, Head of Sponsorship Sales at twhitehead@exportagroup.com.

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