FIMBank President moderator at East Africa conference

22.05.2013

FIMBank plc President Margrith Lütschg Emmenegger was recently the moderator of one of the workshops held as part of the 5th Annual East Africa Trade & Commodity Finance Conference, between the 16th and 17th May in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ms Lütschg Emmenegger moderated the session on ‘The growing importance of financial services in boosting trade’, which addressed issues such as the importance of trade to banks, collaboration between regional and international banks, the increasing relevance of trade credit and political risk insurance for local banks, as well as future pricing trends and the impact of Basel lll.  A few days before, the FIMBank President, together with Sean Aston from the Singapore office of London Forfaiting Company Ltd, part of the FIMBank Group, had also participated in the 2nd Mongolia trade & Commodity Finance Conference held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Both conferences were organized by Exporta, a leading independent publishing house which focuses on international trade, commodity and export finance, and the risk world. FIMBank plc has teamed up with Exporta to be the Gold Sponsor for a series of conferences which are being organised around the globe throughout 2013.

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