Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets II

Credit Suisse and ACCION International invite you to register now for Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets II, the second ACCION conference on microfinance investment, held in New York March 19-20, 2007, in cooperation with The Council of Microfinance Equity Funds.

Who Should Attend? Institutional and private investors, investment bankers, wealth managers, hedge funds, rating agencies, and emerging markets specialists.

What Will You Learn: The conference will explore the latest microfinance deals; discuss investment risks, hedging & exit strategies; determine the investment potential for VCs, pension, emerging markets and social investment funds; hear from fund managers & individuals that have already invested; discuss future structures that meet investment grade criteria, and suggest what it will take to market microfinance paper on a broad scale to both individual and institutional investors.

Speakers include: Vikram Gandhi, Managing Director & Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group,Credit Suisse; Scott Budde, Managing Director, Head of Social & Community Investing, TIAA-CREF; Robert Annibale, Global Head of Microfinance, Citigroup;Robert Weissenstein, Chief Investment Officer, Private Banking, Credit Suisse; Gary Kochubka, Director, Emerging Markets Structured Finance, Standard & Poors; Joost Zuidberg, Capital Markets Product Manager, FMO, The Netherlands.

To review the program and register: http://ga1.org/accion_international/events/cracking_the_capital_markets_clone_753002/details.tcl