Trade & Supply Chain Solutions Europe

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Exporta's Maltese event started off in style the night before with an evening welcome reception at the Westin Dragonara Hotel, hosted by local bank Fimbank.

Description

• Innovations in Supply Chain Finance
• Best Practice for Balance Sheets
• Trade and Risk around the Mediterranean

Exporta's 3rd Annual Trade and Supply Chain Solutions Europe 2008 conference - lead sponsored by Bank of New York Mellon - will bring together Europe's leading experts and practitioners to report from the front of this push to unify the financial with the physical. The first morning will examine the supply chain itself from all available angles - finance, logistics and risk mitigation - before the afternoon session surveys additional solutions for lightening the balance sheet - from securitisation to new buyers of trade assets.

Speakers include: The Bank of New York Mellon, Fimbank, S1 Enterprise, Capco, EZD Global, SWIFT, Miller Insurance Brokers, Swedbank, EMCS Ltd, Sapienta Economics, Exclusive Analysis, Kiln Underwriting Syndicate, Watson Farley Williams, Piraeus Bank Egypt, IM Progetti Advisors & Partners.

Following an evening reception, the second morning will acknowledge the conference's beautiful location with a survey of trade opportunities around the Mediterranean - from North Africa to Turkey and the Balkans.

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Programme

Day One, June 17, 2008
Supply Chain Solutions & the Balance Sheet

09.00 Chairman's opening remarks
Dominic Broom, Trade Business Head, Europe, The Bank of New York Mellon

09:10 A strategic roadmap for the financial supply chain?
David Anderson, Principal Consultant, Capco
• The emerging market for supply chain solutions
• Co-operation versus competition: the challenge to banks
• Integration, execution and success

09:40 Adapting to open account business
Michael McDonough, Trade Product Head, The Bank of New York Mellon
• Internal differences in handling open account transactions compared to LCs
• Legal, operational, credit and risk management issues
• The hidden considerations of open account

10:10 Customer versus conformity: which side are you on?
John Mitchell, General Manager, EMEA, S1 Enterprise
• The challenge of corporate supply chains
• Delivering solutions in a collaborative environment
• Securing your customer relationships

11:15 The future of open account
Stuart Morrison, CEO, EZD Global
• Utilising information and transforming cost
• Collaboration and compliance: tapping new liquidity
• A new asset class for supply chain finance

11:45 The limits of open account: in defence of the letter of credit
Calle Nyquist, Senior Advisor, Trade Finance, Swedbank
• Increase in LC volume in the last 10 years
• Fraudulent usage: the need for skilled staff
• Mitigating risk in the next developing market

12:15 Supply chain roundtable: trends and issues
Chairman: Dominic Broom, Trade Business Head, Europe, The Bank of New York Mellon
David Anderson, Principal Consultant, Capco
Stuart Morrison, CEO, EZD Global
David Hennah, Senior Product Manager, Swift
Calle Nyquist, Senior Advisor, Trade Finance, Swedbank

14:30 Complementary and alternative products
Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger, President, Fimbank
• Forfaiting: how it works
• Factoring: how it works
• Comparison and benefits and how they can help

15:00 Interbank developments: Swift and the TSU
David Hennah, Senior Product Manager, Swift
Michael McDonough, Trade Product Head, The Bank of New York Mellon
• Open account trends and market drivers
• Physical and financial supply chain management
• Collaboration and competition between banks
• Key challenges

16:00 Supply chain disruption: covering the cost
Tim Press, Director-Special Risks, Miller Insurance Brokers
Paul Culham, Active Underwriter, Marine & Special Risks, Kiln Underwriting Syndicate
• Traditional approaches to supply chain cover
• Development of new products for integrated supply chains
• Examples of bespoke trade disruption policies

16:30 Legal implications for supply chain finance
Michael Kenny, Partner, Watson Farley Williams
• Tailoring facility structures: stock, pre-export and receivables financing
• Security issues: different types of asset, cross-border issues, collateral management
• Basel II and the sell-down of risk: syndication, forfaiting, trust structures, securitisation
• Recent trends: warehouse financing and ownership structures

Day Two, June 18, 2008
Mediterranean Trade Finance

9.00 Opening remarks
Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger, President, Fimbank

9.10 Strengthening Mediterranean trade finance for 2010
John Grech, Managing Director, EMCS Ltd
• Update on the Mediterranean banking network
• The case for a Mediterranean development bank
• The impact of EU-Mefta in 2010

9.40 The opening of Greece-Turkey trade
Fiona Mullen, Director, Sapienta Economics
• Seismic diplomacy: economic impact of rapprochement after 1999
• Who benefited? Key sectors benefiting from improved relations
• Longer-term outlook for Turkey: external and internal factors
• Longer-term outlook for Greece: external and internal factors

10:10 Egypt: an update on economic and trade prospects
Gamal Moharam, Chairman & CEO, Piraeus Bank Egypt

11.15 Italy & East Mediterranean trade
Giovanni Bracale, President, IM Progetti Advisors & Partners
• Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean comercial relationship
• Outlook for Turkey: why perception doesn't match reality
• Outlook for Syria, Lebanon and Cyprus
• Italy"s trade relationships with Greece

11.45 Libya & Tunisia
James Howarth, Deputy Director, Middle East & North Africa Division, Exclusive Analysis
• Strategic outlook 2008-09: investment and trade policies
• Influence groups: who shapes the operating environment?
• Political and violent perils: project implementation, contract risks and terrorism

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