2010 FTA Congress

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23rd Annual Congress for Corporate Treasurers, CFOs and their staff involved in treasury, risk management and the financial markets

This year's program has been designed specifically to provide compelling topics for corporate treasurers, CFOs and other finance professionals. The program will feature many practical, indepth forums and discussion panels sharing current thinking and best practice amongst corporate treasurers.

Topics for 2010 include:

• The shifting landscape of bank regulation and implications for corporate treasury markets
• The pros and cons of a public credit rating
• The “new normal” in banking relationships
•  Finding flexibility in debt capital markets
• Credit and commodity risk management

Leading Australian company directors Linda Nicholls AO, Mark Johnson AO and Michael Traill AM, are confirmed to present keynote addresses at the 23rd annual Finance and Treasury Association Congress to be held in Melbourne from the evening of Wednesday 27 October to the afternoon of Friday 29 October.

Linda, Mark and Michael will be joined by an excellent line-up of corporate treasury professionals that include:

• Ryan Abbott CFTP, Group Treasurer, Crane Group 
• John Arentz CFTP, Treasurer, Australand 
• Jennifer Baker CFTP, Treasurer, AGL 
• Nell Bingham CFTP, Company Treasurer, Aurora Energy 
• Craig Busch CFTP, Group Treasurer, WorleyParsons 
• Michael Donohue, Treasurer, ME Bank 
• Kate Duffy FFTP, Treasurer, Yalumba Wine 
• Riko Eguchi CFTP, Treasurer, Cochlear 
• Kate Gillies, Acting Manager Treasury, Strategy & Risk, Hydro Tasmania 
• Marion Johnston CFTP, Treasurer, CSR 
• Greg Manning CFTP, Treasurer-Capital Markets, Qantas 
• Heather McGuirk CFTP, Treasury Manager, Lion Nathan National Foods 
• Alistair McLean CFTP, Treasurer, Metcash 
• Melvin Nunes CFTP, Deputy CEO WA Treasury Corporation 
• Stephen Rochester FFTP, CEO Queensland Treasury Corporation 
• Ayten Saridas, Treasuer, Santos 
• Erin Strang CFTP, Treasurer, Queensland Rail 
• Trevor Tilley FFTP, Assistant Treasurer, Alcoa Australia 
• Zlatko Todorcevski CFTP, CFO, Oil Search 
• Simon Ward CFTP, GM Finance, Foxtel 
• Jane Wedgewood CFTP, Manager Treasury, Western Power 
• Andrew Wilkinson CFTP, Managing Director, ALE Property Group 
• Paul Williams CFTP, Treasurer, Heritage Building Society 
• Eric Williamson, Group Treasurer, National Australia Bank

Other Speakers include

• Vijey Ananda, Head of Transaction Banking, Standard & Chartered 
• Bradley Anderson, Head of Accounting Solutions, BNP Paribas (London) 
• Steven Cunico CFTP, Executive Director, Ernst & Young 
• Geoff Faulder CFTP, Consultant, Faulder Consulting 
• David Hornery, Executive General Manager, Corporate, Institutional and Specialised Banking, NAB 
• Robert Kirk, Executive Director, Restructuring & Debt Advisory, UBS 
• Didier Leblanc, Managing Director, Head of Loan Syndication, Asia Pacific & Japan, BNP Paribas 
• Michael Liu, Head of Capital Management, UBS 
• Rory Manchee, Managing Director, Valuation & Risk Strategies Asia Pacific, Standard & Poor’s 
• Jiro Ockuchi, CEO, Reval 
• Ron Ross, Head of Bond Origination, Australia, Global Capital Markets, ANZ 
• Adesh Sarup, Director, Asia, Produce & Portfolio Management, Trade & Supply Chain, ANZ 
• David Simmonds, Head of Strategy & Research, RBS (London) 
• Kate Stewart, Managing Director, Debt Capital Markets, Australia & NZ, BNP Paribas 
• Natalie Wells CFTP, Senior VP, Moody’s Investor Services