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Diversifying Participation Finance Offerings in Turkey
Is Turkey’s Sukuk market ready for more innovative Sukuk offerings: Convertible, exchangeable, perpetual or hybrid? Prospects for infrastructure and project capital financing via participation issuances With Turkey’s more liberalized trade, will we witness more Islamic trade finance transactions in the future? Commitment to renewable energy: Are there opportunities for green and SRI Sukuk? Moderator: Hulusi Horozoglu – Assistant General Manager, Head of Banking and Capital Financing, HSBC Turkey Panelists: Dr Ahmet Suayb Gundogdu – Country Representative- Turkey, Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) Emad Al Monayea – Board Director and CEO, Kuwait Finance House Investment Dr Feyzullah Egriboyun – Executive Vice President- Treasury, Financial Institutions, Investor Relations, Funding Development, Bank Asya Mufit Arapoglu – Partner and Head of Capital Markets Practice, Balcioglu…
The Challenge of Cross Border Distribution: What’s Holding the Industry Back?
Moderator: Dinesh Virik — Managing Director, Novagni Analytics & Advisory Panelists: Armin Choksey — Director, Head of Asian Investment Fund Center, PwC Singapore Roslina Abdul Rahman — Managing Director, Amundi Malaysia Sandeep Singh — Country Head, Malaysia, and Head of Islamic Business, Franklin Templeton Investments
Opening Panel: The G20 Vision for Long Term Investment Financing and Possible Role of Islamic Finance
Subjects for discussion; Linking long-term finance with economic development G20 vision on long term finance and sustainable economic development The funding gap in emerging markets to finance their long-term sustainable development and the role of Islamic capital market products Moderator: Zamir Iqbal – Head, World Bank Global Islamic Finance Development Center Discussants: Mohamed Rafe bin Mohamed Haneef – CEO, HSBC Amanah, Malaysia Waleed Abdul Wahab – Director, Infrastructure Department, Islamic Development Bank Michael Bennett - Head of Derivatives and Structured Finance, World Bank Neil D. Miller - Global Head of Islamic Finance, Linklaters LLP
Presentation: Exporting the Indonesian Success into Strategic Markets of CIS – Geo-Economic Collaboration for Sustainable Growth of Islamic Green Finance
Sheikh Bilal Khan, Chief Islamic Finance Officer, Astana International Financial Centre
Keynote Speeches
Invited Speakers Hakan Tokaç – Director General for Foreign Economic Relations, Undersecretariat of Treasury Zamir Iqbal – Head, World Bank Global Islamic Finance Development Center
Keynote Speech
Dr Sidi Ould Tah — Director General, Arab Bank for the Development of Africa (BADEA)
How Will REITs Spur Further Capital Market Activity and Economic Development?
Sylvain Vieujot - Deputy Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Emirates REIT
Keynote Address
Zainal Izlan Zainal Abidin — Managing Director, Development & Islamic Markets, Securities Commission Malaysia
Flourish or Flounder: How will Brexit Impact Islamic Finance Activity in Europe?
Moderator: Mike Rainey – Partner, King & Spalding Panelists: David Testa – Executive Director, DDCap Harris Irfan – Managing Director, Cordoba Capital Peter Kruschel – Director, International Directorate,Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Germany Waheed Qaiser – Chairman & CEO, IPS Ltd
Presentation: The Regulatory Environment Affecting Real Estate Transactions
Jake Green – Partner, Ashurst
Comparing Notes: From Financial Hubs to Fintech Hubs
Leading Islamic financial centers and Islamic fintech start-ups engage with each other on what makes a conducive Shariah fintech ecosystem, what measures are in place to attract start-ups, spur and support innovation among financial institutions. Moderator: Muneer Khan – Partner, Head of Middle East Financial Markets, Regulatory and International Islamic Finance, Simmons & Simmons Panelists: Bryony Travers – Head of Marketing and Communications, NOW Money Junaid Wahedna – CEO, Wahed Invest Thomas Hirschi – Executive Director, Banking and Insurance of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market