EMTA-RMA Panel: Emerging Markets Today and in the Future

EMTA/RMA Panel: Emerging Markets Today and in the Future

On June 3, 2009, EMTA and Risk Management Association (NY Chapter) hosted a panel entitled  “Emerging Markets Today and in the Future”. This event was held at J.P. Morgan’s offices in NYC.

The Panel was moderated by Vincent Truglia, Managing Director for Global Economic Research at NewOak Capital and former Head of Sovereign Risk at Moody’s Investor Services, and included Hari N. Hariharan, Chairman & CEO of NWI Management LP and former Division Executive of the International Corporate Finance Division for Citibank, and Dr. David Garlow, Vice President, Country Risk Manager, Political Risk and Trade Credit Insurance, AIU Holdings, Inc. and former Vice President, Latin America for Wharton Econometrics (WEFA), as panelists.

The Panel discussed the following:

• Global Commodity Prices: What are they telling us and where are they going?
• Emerging Market Securities: Global recovery or bear market rally?
• Sovereign Defaults: Why has this cycle been different?
• Corporate Defaults & EM Banking Systems: To what extent are EM Corporates and Banks affected by the Global Crisis?
• Trade Finance: What is the outlook going forward?
• Exchange Rates: Dollar/Euro/Yen?

This Panel is expected to be the first in a series of panels to be hosted jointly by EMTA and RMA and was designed to explore issues of relevance to risk management professionals in today’s Emerging Markets.

For more information, contact Aviva Werner at awerner@emta.org.