Federal Reserve Bank of San Franciscos Annual Conference on Asian Banking and Finance

(June 18-19, 2008)

June 18, 2008

7:30 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast Opening and Welcome Remarks by Janet Yellen, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

8:45

Keynote Address: Global Outlook: Somethings Gotta Give Peter Fisher, Managing Director, BlackRock

9:30

Panel I . Asias Economic and Financial Outlook -Barry Eichengreen, Professor, University of California, Berkeley -Liqun Jin, Vice President, Asian Development Bank -Gillian Tett, Capital Markets Editor, Financial Times -Thomas Connors, Deputy Director, International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (moderator)

11:00 Break

11:15 Panel II. Development of Asian Financial Centers -Khiem Do, Head of Asian Multi-Asset Investment, Baring Asset Management -Yasuhiro Maehara, Professor, Hitotsubashi Univ. -Lucien Wong, Managing Partner, Allen & Gledhill -Mark Spiegel, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (moderator)

12:30 LUNCH

The Changing Landscape: Asias Role in Global Finance Agenda 2:00 Concurrent Breakout Sessions: Issues and Opportunities in Islamic Banking -Mohammad Faiz Azmi, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers -Agil Natt, CEO, International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance -Andrew Metcalf, Partner, King & Spalding (moderator) Financial Risk Management in Asian Banks -Edward Hida, Partner, Deloitte & Touche -Roy Ramos, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (Asia) -Ambi Venkateswaran, SMEO and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, Aozora Bank -David Wright, Group Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (moderator) Consumer Banking in Asia: Growth, Profitability & Risk -Chanda Kochhar, Joint Managing Director, ICICI Bank -David Marshall, Managing Director, Fitch Ratings -Rudjito, Chairman, Indonesia Deposit Insurance Corporation -Susan Baker, Financial Attach for Southeast Asia, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Singapore (moderator)

3:15

Break

3:45

Panel III. Financial Market Regulation: Lessons from Recent Turmoil -Masamichi Kono, Deputy Director-General, Financial Services Agency, Japan -Teo Swee Lian, Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore -William Rutledge, Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York -Paul Wright, Head of International Strategy & Policy Coordination, Financial Services Authority, UK -Michael Johnson, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (moderator) Reception

5:15

6:30

Dinner and Keynote Address New Financial and Economic Challenges for a New American President Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs (International) and Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co

The Changing Landscape: Asias Role in Global Finance Agenda

June 19, 2008

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30

Speaker: David McCormick, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

9:15

Panel IV. Chinese Financial Institutions as Global Competitors & Partners -Nick Lardy, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics -Anthony Walton, Vice-Chairman, Americas, Standard Chartered Bank -Thomas Wu, Chairman, President and CEO, UCBH Holdings -Haiying Zhao, Managing Director, China Investment Corporation -Nicholas Hope, Director, Stanford Center for Intl. Development (moderator)

10:45 Break

11:00 Panel V. Strategic Directions: A Conversation with Asian Banking Leaders -O.P. Bhatt, Chairman, State Bank of India -He Guangbei, CEO, Bank of China (Hong Kong) -Nobuyuki Hirano, Managing Director, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ -David Tang, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Managing Partner, K&L Gates (moderator) 12:30 Conference Concludes