Myanmar Corporate Finance Summit 2015

Key Topics

• Myanmar Foreign Banks Roundtable
  • New opportunities and restrictions
  • Wholesale banking, trade finance opportunities for foreign banks in Myanmar
  • Preparing for incremental or exponential growth
  • Lending to foreign businesses, Myanmar-foreign joint ventures
  • Lending to Myanmar banks and financial institutions
• Myanmar Bankers Roundtable
  • Managing inter-bank transactions
  • Managing currency volatility, declining liquidity, default risks & asset/liability management challenges
  • Strategies to achieve profitability
  • Risk management best practices and standard operating procedures in Myanmar banks
  • When should Myanmar banks consider a cash management desk?
  • Building a banking relationship with companies preparing for listing on YSX
  • Forex and interest rate management by Myanmar banks
• Myanmar Corporate & Financial Law Roundtable
  • Foreign holding company structure
  • Investment structures and vehicles
  • Foreign exchange flows
  • Approvals, permits and registrations
  • Insights on the new, to-be-updated Myanmar Companies Act
  • Update on Myanmar banking and securities regulations
  • Transfer of shares
  • Foreign ownership issues
  • On the upcoming revised Myanmar Investment Law and implications for bankers and stock market players
  • Titles and security
  • Investor rights and protection
  • Update of Bankruptcy and Mortgage legislation in Myanmar
  • Interpretation
  • Legal recourse and dispute settlement
  • Updating accounting and audit practices and tax management
• Myanmar CEO & CFO Roundtable
  • Financial management challenges and constraints faced by Myanmar corporations
  • Corporate leadership renewal and succession in Myanmar
  • New sources of financing for new deals
  • Managing capital raising challenges in the new era
  • Arranging corporate loans and syndicated finance
  • Managing forex challenges
  • Corporate diversification strategy
  • New merger and acquisition opportunities
  • Financial controls and audit
  • Foreign joint-ventures and partnerships
  • Strategic cash flow management, improving financial flexibility and asset-liability management
• Myanmar Company Directors, Corporate Governance & Financial Reporting and Disclosure Roundtable
  • Indemnity for company directors
  • Appointment of company directors, qualifying, roles, responsibilities and liabilities
  • Tackling potential insider trading challenges
  • Cross shareholdings and multiple directorship issues
  • Dealing with conflict of interests
  • Corporate governance challenges and transparency issues
  • IFRS or the latest best practice - What to disclose
  • Suitable financial reporting protocols
  • Clarification on shareholder rights and protecting minority shareholder rights
  • Evolution of Audit Committees in corporate governance
• Myanmar Project & Trade Finance and Insurance Roundtable
  • Trade Credit as a new business for Myanmar banks and insurers
  • Meeting the increasing demand for trade finance and insurance solutions in Myanmar
  • Risks and rewards of adopting multi-bank trade finance solutions in Myanmar
  • Can strategic correspondent relations and partnership with foreign banks and insurers be formed with their Myanmar counterparts?
  • Foreign banks finally providing trade finance services in Myanmar
  • Political risk and export credit insurance for Myanmar deals
• Myanmar Securities Underwriting, Trading & Distribution Roundtable
  • Foreign-Myanmar securities joint-ventures
  • Professional underwriters for YSX
  • The training of dealers, brokers, financial advisors
  • The upskilling of new securities analysts and underwriters in Myanmar
  • Placement and equities underwriting
  • Certification and licensing
  • Valuation issues
  • Price discovery
  • China walls for securities companies allied with banks in Myanmar
  • Developing your equities distribution channels
• Myanmar IPO Listing Roundtable
  • The necessity for stringency and quality control
  • Requisites for eligible candidates for listing
  • Pre-IPO preparation and investment rounds
  • Financial reporting and preparation
  • Dealing with the existing OTC trades
  • Capitalization, rights issues
• Myanmar Securities Settlement & Banking Infrastructure/IT Architecture Roundtable
  • Online trading and settlement provisions
  • T+2, T+1, STP considered for the new market?
  • Banking ICT investments and rollouts
  • Investing in a new securities IT infrastructure
  • The advent of Mobile Money & Trading
• Myanmar Investor, Fund Manager & Private Equity Roundtable
  • Whetting the investor appetite
  • Onshore or Offshore?
  • The potential for launching Myanmar funds
  • Risk intelligence and risk appetite
• Myanmar Real Estate Developer, Investor & Funding Roundtable
  • Market supply and demand
  • New real estate projects in Myanmar and funding needs
  • Land rights, tenure of projects and financing rounds
  • Mortgage financing options, caps and new issues
  • Rights on leased land
  • Mortgage on land
  • Transition following the Farmland Act 2012
  • Deed registrations, encumbrances, dispute settlement
• Myanmar Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Roundtable
  • How to prepare your corporation to go public
  • Financial education of an investing public
  • Strategising your roadshows and corporate communications
  • Attracting investor interest
• Corporate Lending in Myanmar: The advent of Syndicated Loans in Myanmar?
• Financing New Infrastructure Projects & Deals in Myanmar - Commercial, Mezzanine & Developmental Finance as Sources of Finance
  • Transportation projects - rail, ports, roads, river transport
  • Electricity Generation, Distribution and Transmission
  • Agricultural infrastructure projects
  • Telecom, satellite and ICT infrastructure projects
  • Special economic zone infrastructure
  • Oil, Gas, Refinery, Petrochemical and LNG projects
  • Mining infrastructure
  • Healthcare infrastructure
  • Aircraft leasing and airport infrastructure
  • Shipping sector
  • Manufacturing and factories sector
  • Tourism and hotel sector
• Mergers & Acquisitions in Myanmar
• Expanding the Myanmar Consumer Finance Market
• Strategic Marketing of New Banking Services & Products in Myanmar: The Training of Relationship Bankers, Product & Advisory Managers in Myanmar Banks
• Treasury Bills, Corporate Bonds Issuance and Take-Up in Myanmar
• Myanmar State-Owned Enterprises Corporatization & Restructuring in the Public Sector and Investor Implications
• Banking & Securities Consumer Protection and Fraud Management Challenges
• Challenges in Microfinance: Serving the Unbanked & Rural Sector