Innovations in Trade Finance Solutions

Event Review

Senior professionals joined Exporta recently at the traditional University Club just off Fifth Avenue for a packed day of presentations.

With supply chain topics, risk mitigation techniques, regional overviews and an expert led legal panel being discussed throughout the day, delegates were kept up-to-date with the latest products and trends.  The audience were forthcoming with plenty of questions for each speaker and the breaks maximised the opportunity to meet and greet.

If you wish to review the presentations, please select the delegate pack icon.  If you are interested in sponsoring or speaking at the 2008 Innovations in Trade Finance Solutions, please email events@exportagroup.com

Description

The one-day programme of speakers covers supply chain finance, post-implementation updates, new risk mitigation techniques, regional overviews and much more.

Now in its fourth year, we expect to welcome in excess of 100 delegates and provide a day of interactive discussion and learning.

We hope you can join us. 

To register please download the brochure and complete the registration form or book now online or alternatively, please email events@exportagroup.com

An early booking discount is available until September 14, 2007.

Brochure

Programme

08.15  Registration

08.45  Chairman's opening remarks
Stacey Facter, Vice-President, JPMorgan Chase

Finance and the supply chain

09.00 New strategies for financial supply chain optimisation
Beth Enslow, supply chain industry analyst and author

09.30 Bringing trade development services to SMEs
Etienne Vauchez, Chief Executive Officer, Export Entreprises                          

10.00 Financing the supply chain
Jonathan Heuser, Vice-President, JPMorgan Chase

10.30 Networking Break

Post-Implementation Update   

11.00 Standardisation efforts in international trade business
Dan Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer, IFSA

11.30 SWIFTNet Trade Services Utility: facilitating transactions on open account
Christopher Conn, Regional Solutions Manager, Supply Chain Services, SWIFT

12.00 Financial management of supply chains for increased profit
Jim Wilson, Vice-President, Trade Management Consulting, JPMorgan Chase

12.40 Lunch sponsors' address
Derek Ennis, Chief Executive Officer, Coastline Solutions

12.50 Lunch

New risk mitigation techniques

14.00  Overview of receivables put products
Gerald Topitzer, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase and John C Barone, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase

14.45  Hedge funds as sources of risk mitigation
James Parsons, Portfolio Manager, BlueCrest Capital Management

15.30  Networking Break

Legal panel           

16.00   Open account trade transactions: challenges in structuring receivables purchases
Harriette Resnick, Vice-President and Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase
Steve Weise, Partner, Heller Ehrman
Boris Kozolchyk, President and Director, National Law Centre for Inter-American Free Trade                            

Regional focus

16.45 Market trends in Sub-Saharan trade: a view from IFCs GTFP
Scott Stevenson, Head, Trade Operations, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

17.15 The expanding market for trade finance from Central and Eastern Europe to the Former Soviet Union
Vincent O’Brien, Director eBSI and Technical Trade Advisor, China Systems

17.45 Closing Remarks

Venue

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.

Exporta's events have a global reputation, renowned for superb networking opportunities and educational presentations by high-profile speakers.

Time after time our events attract the leading companies in our market as sponsors.

See below for a full list of our Event Sponsors, Institutional Partners and Media Partners and click on the logo to visit their web site. 

Delegate Packs