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Speakers

 

Neil Chantry

Independent Consultant on Trade Finance & Compliance, UK. 40 years with HSBC - on the international executive staff, serving countries in the Middle East & East Africa, on the UK Group executive staff, specialising in Trade Finance operations, procedures, finance, compliance. Recently, consultancy with Standard Chartered Bank. Neil held many ICC positions, e.g. Former Chair, Wolfsberg Group Trade Finance Committee; Joint Wolfsberg Group; Financial Crimes & Anti-Terrorist Financing Group; ICC & BAFT drafting group for the “Compliance Principles Paper; former Chair of the Executive Committee;

 

Nataliya Frolova

Independent consultant, UK, has worked for major international banks and corporates performing various roles in international trade, cash management, syndications, corporate affairs, trade and corporate finance. For more than 7 years in her last corporate role Nataliya was leading a trade and corporate finance team at an international energy trading group of companies headquartered in London (UK) with subsidiaries in Singapore, Switzerland, France, Germany and USA supporting global commodity trading (gas, LNG, power, oil and oil products) in Europe, Americas and Asia.

 


Andrea Hauptmann

Senior Director, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Austria; Chair and founding member ICC Task Force on Bank Guarantees; regular speaker at international conferences since 1991; member of the Executive Committee of ICC Banking Commission;

 

 

  

Gabriele Katz

Director, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany. She is in charge in Global Transaction Banking in Product Management for the Documentary Trade Business for Europe and MENA. She has a more than 25 years’ experience in the documentary and guarantee business. After her apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank AG, Freiburg, Germany she earned a degree as Bankfachwirt from the Bankakademie in Germany and also is certified as a training supervisor of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Düsseldorf, Germany. She is also member of the National Committee of the ICC Banking Commission in Germany.    

 

 

Glenn Ransier

Head of Documentary Trade and SBLCs, Wells Fargo, USA; Glenn is furthermore one of the Technical Advisors of the ICC Banking Commission; He maintains strong ties to domestic and global trade communities; has been actively involved in trade finance for more than 35 years;

 

 

 

 

 

Don Smith

President, Global Trade Advisory, Ltd., USA. Chair of ICC-IFA drafting group for Uniform Rules for Forfaiting, member of the US delegation to the ICC Banking Commission since 1998, co-chair of the original International Standard Banking Practices (ISBP), Docdex Expert, former VP Trade Product Management Citibank NY, with over 40 years international banking experience;


 

Christina Elisabeth Seierup

Vice President Trade Finance Operations, Dankse Bank AS, Denmark; Member Danish Banking Committee. She joined Danske Bank A/S in 1985 and has been working with International corporates since 1989. Since 2010 she is Head of training and education for the Trade Finance product suite within the Danske Bank Group and responsible for corporate Trade Finance and related subjects such as AML trainings;  

 

Hugo Verschoren

Independent consultant, and owner of goVer Trading Technologies. Previously with ING in various positions inside and outside Trade Finance. Regular training provider and frequent speaker at conferences world-wide. Member of the ICC Belgian National committee. Technical Adviser to the International Chamber of Commerce, member of the ICC Regulatory Advocacy Group, the ICC Trade Finance Register Steering Group; the ICC Financial Crime Risk & Policy Group.