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Sir Brian Pitman, Previously Chairman and CEO, Lloyds TSB and currently Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley
" We used to consider ourselves a bank. Then we considered ourselves providers of services. Now, we see ourselves as creators of value " - Sir Brian Pitman

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“ESTABLISHING THE PILLARS OF SUSTAINABLE GROWTH”
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
5-7 May, 2004


The Asian Banker Summit, held annually, is the financial-services industry’s preeminent gathering of decision-makers in this region.

This year’s theme, “Establishing the Pillars of Sustainable Growth” focuses on banks building sustainable franchises for the long-term. Establishing sustainability is a multi-faceted issue for financial institutions. Indeed, there are many current challenges, such as the threat of terrorism, fraud, regulatory requirements and/or increased access to the local marketplace and the competition for capital as well as new opportunities in payments and even in the traditional lending business.

The Asian Banker Summit 2004 will focus on three key areas as the pillars of sustainable growth:

  • Risk Management – A core competency for excellence
  • Payments – The new profit proposition
  • Lending – Strengthening the basic business

MAIN SESSIONS

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.

FORUMS AND WORKSHOPS

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.

The agenda for the Asian Banker Summit is designed for the different layers of professionals in the financial services industry and in related industry:

• Chief executives and senior management of financial institutions in the region
• Senior executives in corporate and strategic planning
• Senior executives in risk management
• Senior executives in corporate lending and asset securitisation
• Senior executives responsible for payment products and services
• Senior executives in operations and technology
• Investors and analysts with an interest in financial institutions
• Regulators, policy-making and government officials

* Previous year’s delegates
 
   
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