Welcome to Asia 2024: Agency, Energy & Infrastructure Finance!

Hesham Zakai

Managing Director,

TXF

Geopolitical tensions and the knock-on effect of these on the Asian project landscape from supply chain challenges to difficulty pushing projects over the line. Join us for an opening keynote panel breaking down the current geopolitical landscape to help you plan with projects and pipelines.

- In todays high IR environment, can ECA's support and ease the pressure by providing longer covers under the new OECD consensus?
- How can commercial banks compete in competitive markets for local currency financing
-  Explore how alternate financing methods / financiers can capitalize on the competitive nature of the market currently to secure business in the region?

Edward Hui

Managing Director,

Deutsche Bank

Sumanta Panigrahi

Managing Director, Asia Head – Export & Agency Finance, Treasury & Trade Solutions,

Citi

Hugh Kim

Export Finance Korea,

Credit Agricole CIB

Michael Georg Lutz

Head of Trade & Export Finance APR,

DZ Bank

Manav Futnani

Global Co-Head of Export Finance,

HSBC

Makoto Fujiwara

Head of Structured Export Finance Japan,

ING Bank

Xian-Lin Mah

Executive Director,

JP Morgan

Sunjung Lee

Managing Director,

Santander

- What role will emerging technologies play in the renewables pipeline?
- Where are the hotbeds of activity in Australia? How do we think about the country as individual regions rather than one whole, and what logistical challenges does this bring to deal flow?
- Discuss PPP and traditional infra pipelines in Australia.
- The Growing role of BESS and storage to the Australian Energy sector.

Amanda Copping

Chief Investment Officer - Project & Structured Finance,

Export Finance Australia (EFA)

- How can Ksure and KEXIM best utilise their products to support Korean business across Asia?
- How significant will the KDB backed future energy fund be to boosting renewables capacity in Korea?
- Offshore Wind is a big part of Korean renewables strategy, but progress on wind transactions has been tough - what is needed to get these back on track?

-          Explore the role of Gas as a transition fuel in the Asian region – with 10GW of Gas projected to come in the next 5 years

-          With a need for baseload power – do ECAs and DFIs need to do more to support the region’s growth?

-          Large renewables auctions happening across Asia, however in some cases E.G Thai 5.5GW auction lots of the capacity is going to few key players – is this slowing down the growth of renewables capacity across APAC?

Welcome back to day 2 Asia 2024: Agency, Energy & Infrastructure Finance!

Max Kallmeier

Content Manager,

TXF

- How far are we from Hydrogen becoming a commercially viable asset?
- With lots of hydrogen which is produced going to waste, how may hydrogen create more opportunities for storage?
- How can other emerging asset classes such as biofuels also support the Asian Energy transition?

- How will the power produced be sold / distributed and what role will PTAs play in this?
- How can we upscale grid networks to support Asian growth as countries increasingly rely on imported power?
- How can we mitigate supply chain and logistical challenges that come with the ambitious plans for transmission lines stretching as far as from Australia to Singapore?

- Do stricter penalties for Data Center failures across APAC impact upon insurance coverage? What impact does this have over pricing of data centre deals?
- Given Asia's warmer climate, how can ESG challenges around heat emissions be mitigated?
- Is there pressure on financiers to be more flexible with digital infrastructure transactions to support the development of the APAC region? Do we need other financial institutions to support to allow these deals to get done?