The Global Borrowers & Asia Investors Forum

Keynotes:

On 16th October, Christophe Frankel, Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Managing Director from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will deliver a timely keynote speech just as the eurozone's permanent bailout fund becomes operational.

On 17th October, Satoru Shibata, Director for Debt Management and JGB Investor Relations from the Ministry of Finance of Japan, as Asia's largest issuer of bonds, will deliver the opening keynote with a speech on Japan's economic situation, JGB management policies and Japan-China economic relations.

Both speeches will be important bellwethers for us in Asia.

Speaker highlights:

· Christophe Frankel, Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Managing Director, European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
· Markus Rodlauer, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
· Brian Baker, Head of Asia ex-Japan, PIMCO Asia
· Sean Chang, Head of Asian Debt Investment, Baring Asset Management
· Andrew Economos, Head of Sovereign and Institutional Strategy for Asia, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
· Geoff Lewis, Global Market Strategist, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
· Uwe Parpart, Chief Strategist and Head of Research, Reorient Financial Markets
· Moritz Kraemer, Managing Director, EMEA Sovereign Ratings, Standard & Poor’s
· Woody Chan, Executive Vice President, Treasurer, Citic Bank International
· Peter Davis, Head of Treasury, BOC Aviation
· Francis Ho, Director, Group Treasury, CLP Holdings
· Sam Kwok, Treasurer, Airport Authority Hong Kong
· Including senior funding officials from EIB, IFC, AfDB, NIB, EBRD, CAF, L-Bank, MuniFin, Kommunivest and representatives from the Ministry of Finances of the Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, Poland and Thailand.

Topics:

· What effects will QE3-OMT have on G3 bonds in the medium term?
· What are the repercussions if China starts to slow?
· Will China ease?
· Corporate funding in the Asian dollar bond market
· How worried should investors be of inflation now?
· Fixed income and debt finance strategies
· Japanese RMBS (Hosted by Goldman Sachs)
· Japanese fiscal and FX overview (Hosted by Goldman Sachs)
· Investing in local currencies (Hosted by HSBC)
· Offshore RMB bond origination (Hosted by HSBC)
· Covered bonds (Hosted by Westpac)
· Asian Loan Liquidity – Is It Still There? (Hosted by DBS)
· Will Asia Continue to Benefit From the Easy Money Conditions? (Hosted by DBS)

At the Global Borrowers & Asia Investors Forum, bond issuers from around the world will meet with some of Asia’s biggest institutional investors.

Sovereign, supranational, agency and corporate issuers will gather in Hong Kong to take a closer look at the global funding environment and to share their fund raising plans. Debt investors will debate on the best ways to navigate these volatile markets.

How are Asian issuers and investors coping with the deteriorating situation in the Eurozone? Is capital flight from Euroland a real risk or will we see a greater commitment to the euro? Can confidence in the bond markets be restored? Euromoney will have these questions on the agenda and more for you on October 16 and 17.

This event will provide a unique opportunity to hear from government officials, treasury executives and institutional investors who shape the debt capital markets around the world.