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IFR’s Sub-Saharan Capital Markets conference reviews a range of topics so that delegates are fully appraised with what’s happening across the African capital markets landscape.
Topics covered will include the outlook for international and domestic debt issuance, international and domestic equity issuance, structured products and currency performance.
As well as continent-wide issues, the conference will also include a series of country-specific sessions covering the countries with the best potential to accommodate international investors and investment banks.
Key Topics include:
- Development of local capital markets
- Creation of domestic institutional investors
- Activities of international investors
- The emerging group of African international debt issuers
- Economic and currency outlook
- Regulation and corporate governance
- Development of private equity
- Prospects for structured finance
- The role of South Africa in sub-Saharan Capital Markets
- The newly emerging role of China in Africa
Expert speakers include:
- Abbai Belai, Managing Director, Head of Financial Solutions Group and Origination, Africa, Renaissance Capital
- Charles Blitzer, Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF
- Stuart Culverhouse, Chief Economist, Exotix
- Trevor de Kock, Division Manager, Treasury Department, African Development Bank
- Eric Lalo, Lazard Frères
- Florian Von Hartig, Head of Global Debt Capital Markets, Standard Bank
- Ade Adebajo, Head, Debt Capital Markets – Africa, Standard Chartered Bank
- Inosi Nyatta, Senior Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Alex Garrard, Managing Director, UBS
- Orli Arav, Senior Investment Advisor, Frontier Markets Funds Managers
- Nick Rouse, Managing Director, Frontier Markets Fund Managers
- Guido Haller, Head of Global Markets Africa, Standard Bank
- Chris Vermont, Head, Debt Capital Markets, GuarantCo
- Michael Ashong, Managing Director, Ecobank Group
- Marc Fidelman, Executive Director, Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities, Goldman Sachs International
- Alex von Sponeck, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Markets, Merrill Lynch
- Matthias Chika Mordi, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive, UBA Capital & Member Board of Directors, United Bank For Africa PLC
- Kayode Akinkugbe, Director, Sub-Saharan Africa Coverage, Global Markets/Banking, Deutsche Bank AG
- Christopher Hartland-Peel, African Equity Research, Exotix
- Sarah Mathies, Investment Principal, Actis
- Tobias Webb, Head of Sales, Coronation Fund Managers
- Francois Ekam-Dick, Managing Director, Iroko Securities Ltd
- Ike Chioke, Deputy Managing Director, Afrinvest West Africa
- China Danforth Onyemelukwe, Managing Director/CEO, Zenith Capital Ltd
- Florian M. Witt, Associate Director, Financial Institutions Africa, Commerzbank AG
- Roger Woodbridge, Head of Global Markets, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited
- R. Yofi Grant, Executive Director, Databank Financial Services Limited and Chairman, Databank Brokerage Limited
- Ebenezer N. Essoka, Country Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered Ghana
- Maina Mwangi, Head of Investment Banking East, Central and Southern Africa, Renaissance Capital
- Henry K. Hall, Managing Director, Emerging Market Equities – EMEA, Merrill Lynch
- Fred Mweni, Managing Director, Tsavo Securities Limited
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