The
main sessions will feature extensive presentations and
dialogues to benefit executives in each of the key areas
listed below:
Risk
Management – A core competency for excellence
The risk management track will explore risk from various
angles and in different areas that are critical to a
bank’s success:
• The Regulator’s Forum – how Hong
Kong, Singapore, China, Malaysia and India are interpreting
Basel II and responding to new issues?
• Dissenting views on Basel II – what are
Basel II’s weaknesses and some alternative ways
of approaching risk management?
• How can banks improve shareholder value through
risk management?
• Inculcating a risk culture in the business decision
making processes of the bank.
• Taking a risk based approach to capital management.
Payments
– The new profit proposition
Payments is a core business in any bank and is in a
phase of renewal today. The Summit’s track on
payments will explore various issues:
• Potentially profitable payments propositions
such as remittance services.
• The cost of preventing fraud and decreasing
fraud costs through managing risk
• Technological, collaborative and other pressing
issues facing the payments industry today, such as new
roles for the ACH and cheque truncation
• The effect of the Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism
and anti-money-laundering regulations on Asia’s
banks.
Lending
– Strengthening the basic business
Asian banks are aggressively building their loan books
once more. What can they do to ensure that their lending
activities can grow sturdily in the long term? The Lending
track will feature discussions on:
• Successful cases of turning around non-performing
assets and debt restructuring
• Credit derivatives as means of hedging risk
• The evolution of internal credit risk models
• Building a successful small- business loan portfolio
• Innovation in the way banks have been working
with their corporate customers.
In addition, the Summit will feature
the following short workshops to keep CEO level delegates
and their key executives on track of current issues:
The
CEO Advisory Forum - The Importance of Corporate Governance
The legendary Sir Brian Pitman, former Chairman of Lloyds
TSB and current Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley, will
lead a panel of CEOs from a few of Asia’s forward-looking
banks in what promises to be a stimulating discussion
on the role of corporate governance in today’s
banking environment. Indeed, increasingly demanding
shareholders, the rise of public interest in such issues
as corporate accountability and transparency, and the
recent misdemeanours at major US firms like Enron and
the NYSE has re-coloured the meaning of “corporate
governance”. In his keynote address to the CEO
Advisory Forum, Sir Brian will speak about corporate
governance from the practitioner’s point of view.
The
Regional Outlook Forum – From Crisis to Building
Sustainable Growth
Asia’s economies are on the mend once more and
the region is replete with opportunities for the FSIs.
The Regional Outlook Forum is designed to give Summit
delegates a clearer perspective of what lies ahead.
Speakers and panelists at the forum will explore some
possible developments and a few areas to be caution
of:
• Regional Banking Analysis:
Are Asia’s banks repeating mistakes that could
lead to another crisis?
• Sustainable Growth for Asian
Banks – Returning to Basics: Based on startling
survey results recently released, this session examines
the importance of customer relationship in long-term
growth.
• Capital Management after
Basel II: How can Asia’s banks allocate
capital more efficiently by capitalizing on Basel II
requirements?
• Country Focus-China:
Gain perspective on recent developments in the world’s
largest financial services markets.
The
Annual Technology Evaluation Panel Forum
This year’s Summit will feature a panel of distinguished
heads of technology of leading banks who will both provide
their own perspectives on trends in the industry as
well as respond to presentations make by various service
providers on new offerings in the marketplace.
• Core Banking and IT architecture:
Resolving key issues of the day, such as the cost of
building and maintaining an efficient IT infrastructure,
return on investment into technology, integration and
other concerns?
• The Cost of Management Agenda
– Outsourcing and Business Continuity:
What are the long-term strategy issues and cost-benefit
of outsourcing IT-related and business processes versus
managing them in-house?
• Business Agility and the
move towards customer centricity: The advent
of new technologies is enabling banks to reach and service
customers at new levels. But how do banks benchmark
their own commercially viable service levels.
• Risk Management: As
the cost of compliance increases, banks have many new
onerous responsibilities that have to be administered
to in a cost-efficient and business friendly manner.
• The Revenue Enhancement Agenda:
How can banks be involved in participating in the business
goals of their organizations.S
Summit
Workshop I: Islamic Banking : This special session
will answer the questions most bankers have about Islamic
banking: What is the business proposition, where are
the markets, what is the revenue potential, what are
the restrictions and other issues. This half-day workshop
is designed for CEOs and senior executives of banks
that are considering Islamic-banking services as a business
proposition.
Summit Workshop II:
Anti-Money Laundering Initiatives & Asian Banks:
Money laundering has become of pressing problem in the
current state of heightened terrorism. This session
will look into legislations that have been put in place
to deter money laundering and its implication for financial
institutions.
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