Wednesday, 19 August 2020
2pm Singapore | 3pm Tokyo

Charting the Path Back to Growth

A New Landscape Is Driving New Thinking with Corporates. Here Are the Key Actions Banks Should Take to Get Them on Track.

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Why attend

The current landscape has upset supply chains and left Corporates scrambling for liquidity and cash. Banks, on the other hand, are now facing rising default risks and credit losses.

And with today’s unfolding global disruption, all eyes are on Asia-Pacific to start the long, hard journey back to growth. Decisions and key initiatives taken today will impact how soon we get back on a path of growth.

A rising curve, and a rising challenge in 2020: S&P estimates that in Asia-Pacific, banking's non-performing assets and consequent credit losses could rise by as much as US$600 billion and US$300 billion, respectively, as a result of COVID-19’s domino effect that has triggered oil price shocks and market volatility.

To flatten this curve, banks need to understand their customer's capital requirements in real-time. Clarity around working capital is becoming increasingly critical, but banks still need to address digital and data gaps in order to provide the insights that their customers are reliant on to get them through this difficult landscape. Corporate banks have historically been slow at enabling this.

In this webinar, the panel will:
👉🏼Decipher the impact on Asia-Pacific corporates, banks and supply chains
👉🏼Address expectations around recovery cycles and preparing for recovery
👉🏼Understand critical actions Corporates need to take now, and in the future
👉🏼Gauge Corporate sentiment today and what will drive confidence ahead
👉🏼Examine new digital capabilities to drive better clarity through lending, working capital management, and payments

The key take-aways

Decipher the impact on Asia-Pacific corporates, banks and supply chains

Understand critical actions Corporates need to take now, and in the future

Gauge Corporate sentiment today and what will drive confidence ahead

Examine new digital capabilities to drive better clarity through lending, working capital management, and payments

The webinar panel

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Balaji Natarajan, Head, Payments & Cash Management | ANZ

Balaji is a Senior Banker with 18+ years' experience in Transaction Banking and Treasury Services, covering Payments, Cash Management, Clearing and Digital banking services in Asia.

Sen Ganesh, Partner | BAIN AND COMPANY

Sen Ganesh is a partner in Bain & Company's Bangkok office. He leads Bain's Southeast Asia Enterprise Technology practice and is an expert in the firm's Financial Services practice. He has more than 10 years of management consulting experience with Bain. Sen advises clients across a range of industries, including financial services, private equity and industrial goods and services. He has extensive experience working with clients in insurance and banking sectors, especially transaction banking. He holds deep expertise in topics related to information technology (IT), including IT transformations, cost effectiveness, cost management, strategy and delivery assurance. Sen holds a Master of Science in Computing and a Master of Engineering from Imperial College London.

Christopher Wee, Executive Director, Head of Trade Product Development, Group Wholesale Banking | UOB

Christopher joined UOB in 2017. He currently leads UOB's Trade Transformation program in the product development office within group wholesale bank and is tasked with transforming the trade finance capabilities and enhance the trade target operating model for the bank. Prior to UOB, Christopher spent 15 years in Standard Chartered Bank in multiple trade & supply chain finance product management roles in country, regional and group office focusing on trade finance for SME Banking, Local Corporates and MNCs and in his last role was the group head of receivables solutions management covering 12 countries.

Gaurav Arora, Head of Banking - Asia Pacific & Middle East | GREENWICH ASSOICATES

Gaurav has extensive experience working with global, regional and local banks across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Greenwich Associates, Gaurav worked with Deloitte Consulting, where he primarily focused on advising wholesale/Institutional banks/global markets group on growth strategies and performance improvement initiatives. Gaurav earned his MBA from HULT International Business School (Boston) and his Bachelors of Business from Delhi University.

Parag Ekbote, Head Business Development - Corporate Banking for APJMEA | ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Parag is a proven leader and comes with over 20 years of banking technology experience. He has been responsible for building and rapidly scaling businesses for leading banking technology companies namely, Fundtech, Misys (both part of Finastra) and Intellect Design across APAC, ANZ, EMEA and South Asia markets. Parag comes with a deep domain understanding of the Corporate and Transaction Banking market and has been a regular speaker at industry forums such as SIBOS, The Asian Banker Summit, Euro Finance, and the ICC Summit among others.

He has a good understanding of Transaction Banking, Cash Management, the payments domain in Corporate Banking, and Retail Lending in Consumer Banking.

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Oracle Corporate Banking Solutions: Helping Banks Clear a Path to Capital Clarity
A fundamental approach of our Corporate Banking product suite is to equip banks with modern, componentized solutions that enable them to drive better working capital clarity, and in turn build impactful relationships with their Corporate customers.

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