China’s Financial Markets V

Thursday, October 12, 2006
9:00am-5:00pm
The Pierre, Fifth Avenue at 61 st Street, New York City

Feature a Keynote address by:

Dr. Harry Harding, Director, Research & Analysis, Eurasia Group

Panel 1: Developments in China’s Banking System

• What is the outlook for China’s banking industry?
• Will a market-driven financial sector evolve?
• Are NPLs a serious continuing problem?
• Has the role of the regulators changed?
• What is the progress of Chinese bank IPOs? Will internationally competitive banks emerge?
• What role will strategic foreign investors play in Chinese banks?

Panel 2: China’s Domestic Capital Markets

• Will G share reform improve the outlook for China’s A share market?
• How do G share reforms work?
• Which companies have been through G share reforms and when will others follow?
• Will A share markets be impacted by QFII investors or the new policy permitting strategic investors?
• Will the corporate debt market expand through the recent experimentation with more bond issuances and securitization?
• The re-emergence of domestic IPOs -- how big an impact will they make and will they really compete with offshore IPOs?
• What is the outlook for Chinese domestic securities firms and will they globalize?
• What role has the CSRC played in recent policy and share reforms?

Panel 3: Overseas Listings by Chinese Companies

• What Chinese overseas listings are in the pipeline? How many are private equity backed?
• How important are Chinese IPOs to the global investment banking community?
• Will China listings drive Hong Kong to the top tier of international financial capital market?
• Why have other stock exchanges -- London, Singapore, Australia and Tokyo -- attracted Chinese listings?
• How have Chinese listings performed around the world?

 Panel 4: The Rise of M&A in China

• Why are strategic and financial investors now eager to acquire in China and in which sectors?
• Which companies are attractive acquisition targets: SOEs, private companies, foreign invested companies, domestically listed companies?
• What are the critical impediments to M&A activity: political, legal and commercial?
• Which exit strategies are financial investors in Chinese companies choosing?
• How are exist strategies affected by developments in Chinese listings overseas and the domestic A share market?

*Agenda subject to change

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