Euromoney Seminars and Trade Finance Magazine present:

Global Trade and Supply Chain Financing Conference
9th and 10th June 2008
Mövenpick Hotel, Istanbul

In the face of current market volatility, trade and supply chain finance are becoming increasingly more popular as a method for financing trade and to enhance the whole supply chain, not just with traditional trade finance bankers and corporate clients, but with a number of new players in the market. Alternative liquidity providers such as hedge funds are entering the trade finance market with an appetite for commercial paper, and buyers continue to seek out additional ways to secure transactions and mitigate risk in the form of trade-credit insurance.

In this context, Trade Finance Magazine and Euromoney Seminars are proud to announce the inaugural Global Trade and Supply Chain Financing Conference.

Key topics to be covered at the event:

• Charting the move from documentary credit to open account trading – what does this mean for Global Supply Chain Finance?
• What role can banks play in developing supply chain finance solutions for FIs and corporates?
• Who is responsible for working capital governance and optimisation? Challenges facing corporate teams
• What is the future of the LC and other forms of documentary credit in international trade?
• Overcoming challenges to engaging SME exporters in supplier financing programmes
• Tying in logistics and finance – how does this affect the supply chain as a whole?
• EIPPs, e-invoicing and e-procurement – de-materialising the financial supply chain
• What is the future for supply chain finance?

UPDATE: Confirmed speakers so far include:

• Andrew Betts, Global Head Trade Finance and Supply Chain, Global Transaction Services, RBS
  
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