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Attendance list

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Speaker Biographical Information

CHAIR

Katharine Morton, Editor-in-Chief, Trade & Forfaiting Review

Katharine Morton is a financial journalist, editor, presenter, analyst and

communicator with extensive knowledge of the world of international finance.

Most recently, Katharine was Editorial Director at EuroFinance Conferences,

part of the Economist Group. She edited Treasury Perspectives magazine and

has researched, written and moderated financial conferences worldwide. She

has been a consultant on capital markets, and has edited on risk, economics,

environment and finance for Finance Asia and Euromoney, Dow Jones and

Bloomberg. Katharine has a degree in economics from King’s College,

Cambridge.

Dr Rebecca Harding, Co-founder and CEO, Equant Analytics

Dr. Rebecca Harding is the co-founder and CEO of Equant-Analytics and the

Chief Economist of the British Bankers Association. She is a technology

entrepreneur and has also held senior roles in business, academic institutions

internationally. These include founder and CEO of Delta Economics, Senior

Fellow at London Business School, CEO of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

worldwide, Head of Corporate Research at Deloitte and Chief Economist at the

Work Foundation. In her early career she was a Senior Lecturer at the Science

Policy Research Unit, Sussex University and a Reader in Economics at the

University of Brighton. She was a Specialist Adviser to the Treasury Select

Committee and Chief Economic Advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group

on Entrepreneurship. She has published 8 books and over 200 articles and

reports. Rebecca is a Director of the German British Forum, a Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Arts, and an Academician for the Academy of Learned

Societies for the Social Sciences and a member of the Society of Business

Economists.

Mark Evans, Managing Director, Transaction Banking, ANZ

Mark Evans is Managing Director, Transaction Banking, Institutional, at ANZ.

Mark is an experienced banker and has held senior roles across relationship,

product and operations. Based in Sydney, he has been Managing Director of

Transaction Banking since June 2016.

In his current role, Mark is responsible for end-to-end Transaction Banking

services – including payments, cash management, trade finance and supply

chain finance solutions – across ANZ’s home markets of Australia and New

Zealand and the bank’s footprint globally.

Mark joined ANZ in 2009 as Global Head of Trade and Supply Chain, and in

2013 was appointed ANZ’s Chief Compliance Officer. In this role he was

responsible for developing and implementing a global compliance framework

and ensuring high compliance standards in all the jurisdictions in which ANZ

operates.

Prior to ANZ, Mark spent five years at HSBC, initially as Head of Trade and

Supply Chain for Australia and New Zealand and then three years in Hong Kong

where he was responsible for the Trade and Supply Chain business across Asia

Pacific.

This is part of a lengthy career that started with a graduate position with

National Australia Bank and also various roles with St George, State Street and

Commonwealth Bank.

ANZ

ANZ is a leading regional bank that connects 34 countries, including the bank’s

home markets of Australia and New Zealand, its Asia-Pacific footprint and

presence in Europe, Middle East and the US. Founded in 1835, it has grown to

be one of the world’s leading financial services groups, a Top 4 Corporate Bank

in Asia, a Top 5 listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange, the

largest bank in New Zealand and “AA-” credit rated by Standard & Poor’s,

Moody’s and Fitch.

Michael O'Kane, Senior Partner, Peters & Peters

Michael O’Kane, senior partner at Peters & Peters is highly experienced at

dealing with the international aspects of business crime, in particular economic

sanctions, cartels, fraud, extradition, and private prosecutions.

Under Michael’s leadership, Peters & Peters was named Sanctions Law Firm of

the Year (Europe) at the World ECR Awards 2015. Michael regularly advises

corporate clients on sanctions related issues, such as global compliance,

contractual disputes, criminal risk, and licensing requirements. Recent work

includes:

• Devising and implementing a comprehensive global sanctions policy for a large multi-national company operating in 122 jurisdictions, including Iran, Belorussia, Zimbabwe and Cuba.

• Challenged EU sanctions imposed on 123 Zimbabwean persons/entities before the EU’s General Court:-the largest ever challenge of its kind.

• Acting for a leading Russian businessman sanctioned by the EU and US.

• Representing former Egyptian Minister and his wife in an action to challenge the legality of an EU asset freeze.

• Acting for the close relatives of a former President subject to EU sanctions.

• Advising a large Russian multi-national on the compliance of a corporate re-structuring with EU sanctions.

• Representing the UK subsidiary of a US parent company exporting electrical equipment to Iran.

Michael was called to the bar in 1992, and prior to joining Peters & Peters was

a senior specialist prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service Headquarters

where he had responsibility for a number of high profile complex cases. He is

consistently recognised as a leader in his field by Chambers & Partners, Legal

500 and Who’s Who Legal. Most recently, Michael featured in The Lawyer ‘Hot

100’ list for 2017.

Michael co-writes the leading blog on sanctions law at

www.europeansanctions.com.

Peters & Peters

Peters & Peters is best known as a leading firm in business crime, civil fraud,

commercial litigation and regulatory work. We act for governments,

corporations, financial institutions, professionals, executives and high net

worth individuals, and also regularly advise foreign regulators and

international organisations. Many of our cases are high profile, complex and in

recent years the vast majority have been international. Peters & Peters has

been ranked as ‘top tier’ by the leading legal directories across its practice

areas for many years and is a previous winner of Niche Law Firm of the Year at

The Lawyer Awards, and in 2015 winner of Sanctions Law Firm of the Year,

Europe. Our key practice areas include: anti-money laundering, bribery and

corruption, commercial litigation, competition litigation, corporate

investigations, criminal antitrust (cartels), economic sanctions, extradition and

mutual legal assistance, financial regulation, fraud (civil and criminal), insider

dealing, international asset tracing, private prosecutions and trust litigation.

Peters & Peters is recognised as being a leading practice in providing a

multidisciplinary approach on behalf of its clients across both civil and business

crime spectrums.

Jean-Francois Lambert, Founder & Managing Partner, Lambert Commodities

Binyamin Ali, Editor, Trade and Forfaiting Review

Binyamin Ali is the deputy editor of TFR. He has been in the trade finance

space since June 2016, when he joined the magazine. Binyamin has reported

on a range of sectors involved in trade including the supply chains and

longevity of key global commodities, the digitisation and standardisation of

global trade and commodity finance, through to international trade pacts such

as the ASEAN and TPP. He has also reported from trade conferences such as

Sibos and Felaban. Binyamin was previously the editor of Private Client Adviser

magazine.

John MacNamara, Global Head of Structured Commodity Trade Finance,

Deutsche Bank

Kris Van Broekhoven, Global Head of Commodity Trade Finance, Citibank

Kris Van Broekhoven is Global Head of Commodity Trade Finance at Citibank.

The business has teams in London, Singapore, Houston, New York and

Johannesburg financing commodity traders, producers and processors, on a

bilateral or syndicated basis.

His career began in 1994 at KBC Bank NV in Belgium where he had various

assignments related to foreign trade. In 1999 he moved to KBC Bank London

where he was appointed Head of Structured Trade Finance in Central &

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. He joined Deutsche Bank AG in

May 2002, where he helped build a Structured Commodity Trade Finance

platform, most recently as EMEA head. He moved to his current position at

Citibank in August 2012 based in London. Commodity Trade Finance offers a

number of trade solutions including transactional finance, borrowing base

finance and performance risk finance.

André Casterman, Chief Marketing Officer, INTIX

André is Chief Marketing Officer at INTIX, a Fintech company providing Data

Management solutions to financial institutions and corporate treasuries. André

is also an advisor with Treasury Peer which is a global corporate CFO network.

Between 2010 and 2016, André was a Member of the Banking Executive

Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) where he focused

on trade digitization initiatives. During the same period, he was SWIFT’s global

head of corporate & trade markets in charge of strategy, governance and

product initiatives. André joined SWIFT in 1991 after having spent 4 years in

two Belgian start-ups. André Casterman has two master’s degrees from Vrije

Universiteit Brussels and a master’s degree from ICHEC Brussels.

Ian Kerr, CEO, Bolero

Ian Kerr was appointed CEO of Bolero in May 2014. He has over 25 years’

experience in financial technology in a range of organisations including NCR

and IBM and has been based in the US and Singapore during his career. More

recently Ian was the CEO of Level Four Software who were acquired by

Clear2Pay in 2011 with Ian leading the integration with two other companies

to form a specialist payments testing business unit. Ian joined Bolero from

Creditcall, a growing PSP gateway and payment technology company, where

he was COO. Ian has the responsibility to lead Bolero through the next phases

of global growth through the development of the company’s digitised trade

solutions. Ian holds a BSc from the University of Manchester Institute of

Science and Technology and is a member of the Chartered Institute of

Marketing.

Bolero

Bolero is a global leader in the electronic settlement of contracts between

buyers and sellers. From initial purchase order to final payment including

supporting trade financing and the documentary control of goods, Bolero helps

organisations to improve cash-flow and working capital whilst increasing

efficiency, control and visibility as well as mitigating risk and fraud.

Bolero has led the way in driving the digitisation of global trade transactions,

bringing the industry's first electronic Bill of Lading solution to market. Today

we power more than 6 million trade documents and $80bn worth of global

trade transactions per annum connecting buyers, sellers, financiers, credit

underwriters and payment providers & networks.

David Hennah, Head of Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Misys

David Hennah leads the trade and supply chain finance product management

team at Misys having re-joined the company from SWIFT, where he spent eight

years driving the industry body’s financial supply chain strategy.

David spent over twenty years in a variety of senior roles at Barclays, spanning

all areas of the transaction banking business. He is credited with bringing to

market the world’s first international direct debit service.

Outside the UK David has worked in France, Belgium and Germany, including a

three year secondment to the Associated Banks of Europe Corporation

(ABECOR) in Brussels and was once based literally “overseas” managing the

Barclays branch on board RMS QE2.

David has become well known for his work in recent years to bring the ICC

Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) to market as an established business practice.

David was a member of the ICC BPO Rules Drafting Group and is the author of

the best-selling ICC Guide to the Uniform Rules for Bank Payment Obligations.

He is a regular speaker at industry events and a regular contributor to industry

publications including Trade & Forfaiting Review. He has previously run his

own consulting business and is a distinguished Member of the Institute of

Financial Services. In 2016 David was appointed Special Advisor to the World

Trade Board and Expert Advisor to the trade faculty of the ICC Academy.

Misys

Misys is at the forefront of the financial software industry, providing the

broadest portfolio of banking, capital markets, investment management and

risk management solutions available on the market. With more than 2,000

customers in 125 countries our team of domain experts, combined with our

partner eco-system, has an unparalleled ability to address industry

requirements at both a global and local level. We connect systems, collect data

and create intelligent information to drive smarter business decisions. To learn

more about how our Fusion software portfolio can deliver a holistic view of

your operations, and help you to solve your most complex challenges, please

visit www.misys.com and follow @MisysFS on Twitter.

Jacco de Jong, Managing Director, essDOCS

With over 30 years in the International Trade Finance business environment,

Jacco de Jong has gained hands-on experience in all major areas such as

operations, client service, sales (commodity) finance, training, digitalization

and system implementations.

By being a trusted advisor to many corporates and financial institutions, Mr De

Jong stays abreast of the latest developments in the market. In his role as

Managing Director at EssDOCS Consulting and head of Trade Finance he is

supporting banks and corporates in the transition towards digitalization in

Trade and Supply Chain Finance.

Abhijit Prasad, Global Product Head, Open Account Solutions, HSBC

Cliff Evans, Vice President, Head of Digital for Banking and Capital Markets,

Capgemini

Cliff is Head of Digital at Capgemini for Banking and Capital Markets. He is a

thought leader in digital transformation and the creation of new business

models. He is now applying his experience of digital transformation in retail,

consumer goods and other sectors to the Banking area, helping organisations

respond to the wave of disruption that technology is bringing.

Cliff was previously Global Digital CTO for Capgemini and prior to that Chief

Digital Officer for Capgemini UK where he started Capgemini on its digital

journey, creating its digital technology strategy and delivering its first major

digital transformation, for a UK client. Cliff joined Capgemini from the media

industry where he led the successful digital transformation of a multi-national

organisation.

Cliff publishes regular thought leadership and his most recent points of view

have been on the subject of Crypto-currencies and Blockchain, as well as

Digital Marketing.

Cliff has a PhD in the application of machine learning to Aeronautical

Engineering and is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer.

Geoffrey Wynne, Partner and Head of Trade & Export Finance Group, Sullivan

& Worcester

Geoffrey Wynne is head of Sullivan & Worcester’s London office and also head

of its Trade & Export Finance Group. He has extensive experience in banking

and finance, specifically trade and structured trade and commodity finance

corporate and international finance, asset and project finance, syndicated

lending, equipment leasing and workouts and financing restructuring.

Geoff is one of the leading trade finance lawyers and has advised extensively

many of the major trade finance banks, multilateral financers and companies

around the world on trade and commodity transactions in virtually every

emerging market including CIS, Far East, India, Africa and Latin America. He

has worked on many structured trade transactions covering such diverse

commodities as oil, nickel, steel, tobacco, cocoa and coffee. He has also

advised on ownership structures and repos for commodities and receivables

financings.

Geoff sits on the editorial boards of a number of publications and is a regular

contributor and speaker at conferences. He is also the editor of and

contributor to The Practitioner’s Guide to Trade and Commodity Finance

published by Sweet & Maxwell and A Guide to Receivables Finance, a special

report from TFR published by ARK. In Chambers and Partners 2016 Geoff is

listed as “a trade finance expert with extensive industry experience” -

Commodities: Trade Finance.

Sean Edwards, Chair, International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA)

Sean Edwards is an English solicitor, formerly with Clifford Chance, and is now

Head of Legal at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited. He is

Chairman of the International Trade & Forfaiting Association (ITFA).

He is one of the principal draftsmen of the Uniform Rules for Forfaiting (URF)

(ICC Publication no. 800), a joint initiative of the ITFA and ICC and published by

the ICC.

He was also a member of the drafting group for the Standard Definitions for

Techniques of Supply Chain Finance published by ICC, ITFA and a number of

other international trade finance organisations.

He sits on the Executive Committee of the ICC Banking Commission.

Sean has written articles on trade finance, particularly on forfaiting and other

forms of receivables finance, for all the major trade finance magazines and is

on the editorial boards of Trade & Forfaiting Review (TFR) and Global Trade

Review (GTR). He is a frequent presenter at trade finance conferences speaking

on a wide range of subjects.

International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA)

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association, ITFA (www.itfa.org),

previously known as IFA, is a global association for financial institutions and

intermediaries including insurers and insurance brokers engaged in receivables

finance, supply chain finance and forfaiting. It has around 150 members in over

20 countries.

ITFA has drafted, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the

Uniform Rules for Forfaiting (URF) (ICC Publication no.800) the only

international set of rules for receivables financing.

ITFA’s recent activities include:

• Co-author of the recent ICC Standard Definitions for Techniques of Supply Chain Finance

• With BAFT raising their market-leading master risk participation agreement

• Publication, by the Insurance Committee, of a guide to Basle compliant credit risk insurance policies

• Publication of a CRR Article 194 opinion on the BAFT MRPA upon which bank members can rely to obtain capital relief

• Engagement with Moody’s over issues regarding the re-classification of trade debt as market debt to result in a paper in the coming months – this work has already influenced Moody’s methodology

ATTENDANCE LIST

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Mike Backhouse Relationship Director The London Institute of Banking & Finance

Martin Betts Manager, Trade Finance

FCMB Bank (UK) Ltd

Daniel Bolschun Trade Solutions and Export Finance

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited

Alex Bryant Business Development Director

HSBC Bank PLC

Andre Casterman Chief Marketing Officer

INTIX

Nicholas Clavel Scipion Capital LLP

Oliver Colman Political & Credit Risks, Financial Solutions

Willis Towers Watson

Jacco de Jong Managing Director essDOCS

John Dial Senior Manager, International Strategy

HSBC Bank PLC

Sean Edwards Chair International Trade and Forfaiting Association

Tom Eldridge Partner Mayer Brown International LLP

Mark Emmerson Head of Global Trade and Receivable Finance, UK

HSBC Bank PLC

Mark Evans Managing Director, Transaction Banking

ANZ

Cliff Evans Vice President, Head of Digital for Banking and Capital Markets

Capgemini

Zara Fountaine Willis Towers Watson

Alexander Frost Head of Global Risk Intelligence & Data

Axco

Rebecca Harding Co-Founder and CEO Equant Analytics

David Hennah Head of Trade & Supply Chain Finance

Misys

Okey Ihejirika African Export-Import Bank

Robert Kelsey CEO Moorgate Communications

Ian Kerr CEO Bolero

Henrikas Kotenkovas Vice President Corporate Trade Sales, EMEA

Wells Fargo Bank N.A

Ajay Kumar Commodity Business Centre

Bank of China (UK) Ltd

Jean-Francois Lambert Founder & Managing Partner

Lambert Commodities

David Leggott Partner Hogan Lovells International LLP

Mark Ling Head of Trade & Working Capital

Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking Santander UK plc

John MacNamara

Global Head of Structured Commodity Trade Finance

Deutsche Bank

James Morris GML Capital LLP

David Morrish Relationship Director The London Institute of Banking & Finance

Katharine Morton Editor-in-Chief Trade & Forfaiting Review

Peter Mulroy Secretary General FCI

Lilia Nasri Senior Vice President International Trade Services

Wells Fargo Bank N.A

Teddy Ngidjol African Export-Import Bank

Michael O'Kane Senior Partner Peters & Peters

Nick Ollerenshaw Executive Director, Structured Credit and Political Risks

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Lucy Palfreeman Reporter TXF:Trade and Export Finance

Abhijit Prasad Global Product Head, Open Account Solutions

HSBC

Rudolf Putz Head Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP)

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Bruce Richards Director, Global Trade and Receivables Finance

HSBC Bank PLC

Andrew Robison Head of Commodity & Structured Trade Finance Europe

HSBC Bank PLC

Susan Ross Trade Credit Broker Aon UK Ltd

Pierre Saint-Hubert Investment Analyst Scipion Capital LLP

Steve Scott Common Bank of Australia

Nigel Smith Head of Global Trade & Receivables Finance

HSBC Bank PLC

Paul Smith Media Relations Manager

HSBC Bank PLC

Irina Smit-Zakharova Credit Analyst Trade & Commodity Finance

Rabobank International

Ben Storrs Vice-President Scipion Capital LLP

Andrew Taylor Partner Hogan Lovells International LLP

Charles Thain Associate Mayer Brown International LLP

Sandro Valladares Senior Manager/Trader

London Forfaiting Company Ltd

Kris Van Broekhoven

Global Head of Commodity Trade Finance

Citibank

Ad van der Poel Senior Vice President Financing Services

Basware UK Ltd

Felix von Studnitz Global Information Analyst - Insurance

Axco

Fred White Investment Analyst Scipion Capital LLP

Geoffrey Wynne Partner Sullivan & Worcester

Dyna Yates Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP

Pelin Yazgan

Associate Director, Global Specialised Finance, Capital Financing

HSBC Bank PLC