Facilitating South-South Trade and Investment

Background

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Private Sector Operations Department and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) India are jointly co-organizing a one-day conference entitled Asia Finance and Risk Mitigation Forum 2013 (AFRM 2013), Facilitating South-South Trade and Investment on 30 April, 2013 in Mumbai, India.

Objectives

The conference will feature prominent representatives from both the public and private sectors discussing the following topics:

• Using risk mitigation products to finance cross border investments
• Creating bank links to support south-south trade
• Financing medium to long term trade
• Mitigating contractual risks related to trade and investment

Target participants

• Project developers
• Financial institutions
• Project advisory companies
• Exporters
• Law firms
• Government officials
• Policy makers responsible for trade and investment
• Export credit agencies
• Export import banks
• Insurance companies
• Members of the press
• International development agencies
• International finance institutions

Registration fee

USD$100.00 for private sector/organizations

Resource speakers

• Lakshmi Venkatachalam, Asian Development Bank
• Michael Barrow, Asian Development Bank
• Steven Beck, Asian Development Bank
• Luigi de Pierris, African Development Bank
• Francis Mbroh, African Export-Import Bank
• Nicolas Banerjea-Brodeur, Bombardier 
• Fabien Conderrane, Coface
• Manohari Swarnamitta Gunawardhena, DFCC Bank
• Josal Luiz Pellegrino, Embassy of Brazil
• N. Shankar, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd.
• T.C.A. Ranganathan, The Export-Import Bank of India
• Didar Singh, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
• Chris Vermont, GuarantCo
• Khawar Iqbal, HSBC Securities & Capital Markets India Pvt. Ltd.
• Emil Elastianto Dardak, Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund
• Gema Sacristan, Inter-American Development Bank 
• Mohamud Hussein Khalif, Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of the Investment and Export Credit
• Hideo Naito, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
• Arvind Mayaram, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
• Stefan Schussele, Munich Re
• Abu Rashed, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Bangladesh 
• Lav Chaturvedi, Reliance Capital
• Rajat Misra, SBI Capital Markets Ltd.
• Ramesh Subramanyam, Chief (F&A), Indian Subsidiaries, The Tata Power Company Limited
• Pankaj Gupta, Manager, World Bank
• Tim Warren, Zurich
• Yaw Adu Kuffour, African Export-Import Bank
• Sanjay Kedia, Marsh
• Paul Mudde, Sustainable Finance and Insurance

Partners

• Compagnie Française d'Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur (COFACE)
• The Export-Import Bank of India (EXIMBANK)