Trade & the Credit Crunch Business Briefing

Description

The day will cover regional and global outlooks; commodities, structured trade and syndications; legal aspects; insurance and reinsurance; alternative liquidity and bespoke instrumentation; capital release; with several panel discussion opportunities for attendees to put questions and ideas to speakers and the audience.

The day will afford plenty of networking opportunity and will include a lunch.

VAT at 17.5% is added to the fee payable.

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Programme

Trade & the Credit Crunch Business Briefing
May 21, 2008
Lansdowne Club, London

08.30 Registration

09.30 Chairman's introduction
Robert Parson, Partner, Clyde & Co

Regional Outlooks

09.40 Middle East
James Howarth, Deputy Director of Middle East & North Africa Division, Exclusive Analysis

10.05 Eastern Europe & CIS
Rudolf Putz, Deputy Director, Financial Institutions Unit, EBRD

10.30 Asia
John Turnbull, Global Head of Structured Trade & Commodity Finance,
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Market Observations

11.25 Twin shocks: commodities and the credit crisis
Paul Schuilwerve, Global Head of Commodities, Fortis
• Derivatives as financial weapons of mass destruction
• Sub-prime crisis impact timeline
• Liquidity and solvency in commodity markets
• Economic downturn and contagion for commodities
• Will restricted credit lead to an Armageddon?

11.55 Deal experiences through the crunch
Celia Gardiner, Partner, Watson Farley & Williams
• Trends in trade finance structures before the credit crunch
• Effect of reduced bank liquidity: flight to structure?
• Effect of Basel II capital adequacy requirements on trade finance transactions
• Examples of recent transactions

12.25 Panel discussion: how have insurance and reinsurance been affected?
Chairman: Andy Lennard, Vice-President, Product Strategy & Acquisitions, Texel Finance
Nick Ayres, Senior Production & Marketing Broker, Benfield
David Neckar, Product Development Director, Willis
Andrew Underwood, Head of Political Risks, Hiscox

Response & Opportunity

14.00 Alternative liquidity and bespoke instrumentation
James Parsons, Portfolio Manager, BlueCrest Capital Management
• Identifying the constraint: risk, capital, or funding cost?
• Sources of alternative risk cover, capital, and liquidity
• Setting up the relationship
• Using the right instrument for the job

14.30 Releasing capital using trade
Peter Sargent & Steve Lotito, ANZ
• Working capital and trade finance: an alternative to more traditional forms of liquidity?
• Managing corporate cashflow using trade techniques
• Squeezing the liquidity value from supply chains

15.30 Opportunities for structuring using trade finance techniques post credit crunch
Geoffrey Wynne, Partner & Head of Trade & Export Finance, Denton Wilde Sapte
• What history teaches for the future of trade finance structuring
• Risk analysis and its place in trade finance
• Will it be more of the same or just more?
• Use of trade finance structuring outside conventional trade transactions
• How to read warning signs early on and what to do

16.00 Panel discussion: weathering the crunch - where now ?
Chairman: James Parsons, Portfolio Manager, BlueCrest Capital Management
Jeffrey Blum, Director, Interlink International Trading (UK) Ltd & Visiting Professor to World Maritime University Sweden & Shanghai Maritime University
Torsten Richter, Director, Project & Export Finance, Standard Chartered Bank
Adnan Ghani, Global Head of Trade, ABN AMRO
Paul Schuilwerve, Global Head of Commodities, Fortis

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