Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Opening Remarks

Forum Chairman: Mr. William Seidman, first Chairman, US Resolution & Trust Corporation, and Mr. Emmanuel Daniel, Founder, The Asian Banker

Keynote Address
With Mr. Suparat Kawatkul, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Thailand,
On behalf of H.E. Dr. Thanong Bidaya, Minister of Finance, Thailand

Keynote Address
With Mr. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., former US Congressman and sponsor of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on “Unlocking the Value of the Institution in a Global Marketplace.” As one of the principal architects of the legislation that enabled the US financial-services industry to find synergies across business lines, Mr. Bliley will examine the trends he thinks have altered the US banking system since the Glass-Steagal Act was repealed.

Followed by a presentation by Dr. Wei S. Yen, Managing Director, Financial Institutions, Asia Pacific, Moody’s, on “Institutional Reforms: Creating Winning Structures for Asian Banks”. Unprecedented challenges are forcing Asia’s banks to rethink how their institutions are structured to maximise shareholder value but at the same time to be competitive. This session contextualises the US’s experience within current structural issues faced by Asian institutions.

Leadership Dialogue on Institutional Responses to Competition in Asia

Asia Pacific Industry Outlook 2006-2007: A CEO Level Assessment

Presentations by and dialogues with Mr. David Marshall, Managing Director, Financial Institutions, Asia, Fitch Ratings, and other prominent analysts. The panelists will be focusing on how banks should deal with the era of excess liquidity, rising interest rates and the impact of global capital markets on financial services. The potential impact of contingent events such as an avian flu pandemic will also be discussed, with a conclusion by the chairman of the forum.

The Asian Banker Achievement Awards 2005 Dinner
Guest of Honour
Former Congressman Mr. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr.,
The Minister of Finance of Thailand, H.E. Dr. Thanong Bidaya

Cocktails from 1830 for Dinner at 1900

Welcome and Introduction by The Asian Banker

Welcome Address
Mr. Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President, Bangkok Bank

Opening Keynote Address
"Western Structure of Governance: Missing Link and What Not to Follow"
M.R. Pridiyathorn Devakula, Governor, Bank of Thailand

Dialogue with
Professor Arnold Schilder, Chairman, Accounting Task Force, Basel Committee, Bank of International Settlements & Executive Director, Netherlands Bank
Dr. Ishrat Husain, former Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
Mr. Donald MacKenzie, Chief Risk Officer, Kookmin Bank, Korea

Keynote Session chaired by
Mr. Emmanuel Daniel
Mr. Gordian Gaeta

Welcome and Introduction by The Asian Banker

By Chairman of The Risk Management & Governance Conference
Dr. Michael Ong, Professor of Finance, Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology

The Risk Management & Governance Conference Keynote Session

Reforming Compliance ~ An Effective Framework For An Interconnected World

Keynote Presentation
Prof. Arnold Schilder, Chairman, Accounting Task Force of the Basel Committee, Bank of International Settlements & Executive Director, Netherlands Bank

Keynote Discussion
Mr. Nick Minogue, Executive Director, Risk Management, Macquarie Bank, Australia
Dr. Guan Seng Khoo, Group Chief Risk Officer, RHB Capital, Malaysia
Mr. Il-Yong Ko, Team Head, New Basel Accord Office, Financial Supervisory Service, South Korea

Chairman
Dr. Michael Ong

The CFO & CRO Roundtable:

Mobilising The Finance And Risk Management Functions Into An Enterprise-Wide Risk-Based Culture: Issues For Asian Banks

•	How will Basel II affect the finance function and the role of the chief financial officer (CFO)?
•	Preparing the CFO for the new demands that come with Basel II compliance
•	How will the CRO and CFO work together in a risk-based regime?
•	Key performance indicators for a risk-based environment

Speakers & Panelists
Ms. Deborah Schuler, Senior Vice President, Regional Credit Officer, Moody’s
Mr. Andrew Alcid, Chief Operating Officer, Banco de Oro Private Bank, the Philippines
Mr. Charles A. Richard III, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, QRM
Mr. Henry Norwood, Senior Vice President, QRM

Chairman
Dr. Michael Ong

Breakfast Forum

The Impact Of An Avian Flu Pandemic And Other Disasters On Financial Services In Asia

•	Presentation of research by The Asian Banker on Asian banks’ preparedness for an avian flu pandemic
•	Justifying the cost of being prepared
•	Dealing with infrastructure failure and the role of technology
•	Staff training and education
•	What can be learnt from the way Asian banks handled the SARS outbreak?

Keynote Forum

The Impact Of Financial Innovation On Market Risk Management

•	Risk-related issues in offering sophisticated financial products to a relatively unsophisticated retail market
•	How are swaps, derivatives, other structured financial products and sophisticated trading strategies changing market risk and the managing of market risk?
•	What new risks are emerging as a result of the widening use of complex financial products and trading strategies?
•	How are risk managers responding to these risks?
•	What compliance issues are developing in tandem with the rise of complex hedging and trading strategies?

Financial Innovations And Hidden Concentrations Of Risk

•	A survey of current innovations in financial products and developments in trading strategies. What new risks, including market risk, legal and contractual risks, are these products introducing into the financial system?
•	When risk is transferred away from the balance sheet or is dispersed via sophisticated financial structures, where does it go?
•	Is the industry creating new but unacknowledged systemic risks, especially in Asia?
•	The effect of derivative products on liquidity risk, and developments in managing liquidity risk.

Risk-Adjusted Information In An Enterprise-Wide Risk Culture

•	Issues in collecting, analysing, interpreting and disseminating risk-adjusted data for enterprise-wide risk management
•	Data and information accuracy issues
•	Data privacy in an enterprise-wide risk management environment
•	The capability and limitations of technology in managing risk-adjusted data for Basel II and IAS compliance

Closing Keynote Address

Banking’s Next Frontier – Serving The Underbanked Profitably Is A Real Business Proposition Today

Even as the global movement to eradicate poverty takes hold – through populist movements like that of Bono's as well as serious gestures by donor countries on debt reduction – there is emerging a new proposition that enables banks to be part of this global initiative, and in a profitable manner as well. Businesses like Grameen Bank in Bangladesh have pointed out that micro-financing is a commercially viable model. Today, global banks like Citigroup and HSBC are "upscaling" and "downscaling" to create linkages with micro-finance initiatives around the world. Surely after the promise of retail banking, the technology and business skills available are all set to make this new frontier possible for the financial-services industry. This session probes pressing issues in an area of banking that is real to many developing countries.

Keynote presentation by
Mr. Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance and Founder & first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Presentation by
Mr. David Piesse, Head of Alternate Channels Group, SUN Microsystems

Moderator
Mr. Gordian Gaeta