Presentation materials can be downloaded from the agenda page

Dr. Sammy Ho, Managing Director of Euro Events, welcomed all the delegates and sponsors to the conference. Nearly 400 delegates packed the Westin Taipei ballroom along with representatives from all the leading financial institutions, regulators and of course the key companies.

Opening keynote address was carried by Mr. Richard Shih, Chairman of Taiwan Futures Exchange; who highlighted the development of the Exchange and its future plans for the years ahead.

Mr. John Duggan, Senior Vice President of the Singapore Exchange gave a very special presentation on The Singapore Exchange's new product, DRAM Futures, which will be launched in a few months time. Mr. Duggan gave a very comprehensive overview of this new product and explained how it could help the Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturers in tackling the issues of volatility of the DRAM prices.

Ms. Christina Lam, Director and Chief Representative of Euroclear Bank outlined today's settlement challenges to the audience and explained the trend by showing the key statistics of the investment fund industry. The Fundsettle solution, which helps to tackle the operational challenges of third party distribution, was discussed.

Followed a coffee break, keynote address by Professor Norman Yin set the theme for the session in which he shared with the audience his views on the securitization market in Taiwan. He shared his optimism on the development so far and he believes that there will be more cases to come. Of course, the first securitization case of Taiwan was discussed in great details.

Professor Norman Yin's presentation was followed by a comprehensive review of synthetic securitization by Mr. Kenneth Aboud and Chin-Chong Liew, partners of Allen & Overy, in which the concept, the process and the various issues such as legal, accounting etc. were discussed.

Mr. Thomas Chan, Vice President, ABN Amro highlighted ABN's experience in the Asset Securitization market and explained to the crowd the process and benefits by citing the Diner's Club's case as an example.

The afternoon session started with the Keynote speech from Dr. C. Chen of Taiwan Ratings, who gave an overview on the developments of the financial holding companies and the achievements and failures so far. He also provided a very detailed explanation on the issue of cross sector risk within the financial holding companies and how they should utilize their resources more effectively. He indicated that companies must be cautious in their strategy if they are considering in forming financial holding companies at this stage.

Mr. Albert Cobetto, chief executive officer of BondsInAsia provided an update on the area of Regional Bond Markets. Mr. Cobetto explained the structure of BondsInAsia in various countries and how their electronic trading platform BTX has helped many customers to make more effective trading.

Ms. Sophia Cheng, Director, Equity Research of Merrill Lynch, gave a very extensive overview of the financial industry, including banks and insurance companies. She started off with an overview of the various key indicators such as NPL ratio, interest rate trend etc. Then the financial landscape of Taiwan was illustrated. She also highlighted the potentials and challenges of Taiwanese banks in China.

Mr. Suresh Sankaran, Principal Advisor of IPS Sendero gave a very interesting talk on credit risk modeling, which he skillfully explained to the audience the concept of how to choose a credit risk model. More importantly he outlined how financial institutions should prepare for Basel II by collecting the meaningful data now.

EuroEvents would like to thank all the sponsors, speakers and delegates for supporting the event. It was indeed another very successful events with informative and up to date topic of interest, great speakers of renown status and expertise, and a strong turnout by senior management of the Taiwan and international banking and Corporate community; along with government officials and senior regulators.

For details of our conference materials and sponsors/participation of our next Taiwan Conference, please contact Dr. Sammy Ho at 852-2810-6269.

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