<
p>The FP Show has released its extensive 2014 Conference Programme…
The FP Show has revealed it will be holding three exciting seminars starting from 12:30pm, where each seminar holds a diverse and experienced panel, and are chaired by leading professionals in the sector, including a guest from the FCA.
Please read below for more details on the seminars:
Introduction – Adam Tyler, CEO of the NACFB
Opening Address – TBC
NACFB AGM – 11am
Seminar Session 1 – 12.30pm – The future of the Alternative Funding Market
It is recognised that the High Street banks cannot provide SMEs with all the funding that is required now to stimulate growth in the UK economy.
So, we have to ask ourselves, is it time to stop using the word “Alternative” for the emerging number of funders that have appeared in the SME lending space? Additionally, can these firms offer businesses a real, long-term, sustainable solution to traditional lenders? What more can, and should, be done by Westminster to promote the availability and access to this huge group of funders with money to lend? As a consequence of this unique growth in numbers of lenders – the NACFB now has 120 – is the right kind of regulation being considered to ensure UK SMEs are protected?
Chair: Anne Marie Morris – MP, Chair of the APPG for Micro Businesses
Panel
Adam Tavener – Clifton Asset Management
James Meekings – Funding Circle
David Penston – Assetz Capital
Irene Graham – British Bankers Association
Andrew van der Lem – Executive of The British Business Bank
Seminar Session 2 – 1.30pm – Regulation in the Commercial Lending Market with FCA guest Martin Goulden
After nearly 24 months of planning, lobbying, consulting and implementation of FCA regulation for the Consumer Credit Act, this seminar aims to explore whether too many unanswered questions for commercial finance brokers caught up in this regulation still remain, and indeed, should they have been brought into the scope of this Act in the first place?
Other topics to be discussed include:
– Should all professionals arranging finance for businesses hold permissions from the Financial Conduct Authority?
– Is enough being done to help those caught by regulation for the first time through this process?
– What does the future landscape look like for those brokers who specialise only in Commercial Finance, not only under the CCA rules, but with regulation as a whole?
Chair: Marcus Grimshaw – NACFB Chairman
Panel:
Joanne Davis – DWF Solicitors
Gary Kershaw – SimplyBiz (NACFB Compliance Services)
Nick Simpson – NACFB Director
Stephen Johnson – Shawbrook Bank
Suzanna Walker – Bridgebank Capital
Seminar Session 3 – 2.30pm – The future for Commercial Finance Brokers
Commercial finance brokers have long had the support from industry body the NACFB, established in 1992 to provide a Code of Practice for its members. Now, as the market works through the early stages of FCA regulation, this seminar questions: what is next for the commercial finance broker? Is this sector’s future soon to follow the IFA space and see a reduction in numbers due to legislative changes? What can be done by the lenders and funders to assist what is effectively their sales force? Typically, most brokers in this sector have worked as individuals, but are there any advantages to working within larger firms? Finally, as a group of brokers trading in the business funding space, what can the industry do to improve its position?
Chair: Andy Bishop – Lloyds Bank
Panel:
Wesley Harfield – Investec
Brian Dhenin – Close Brothers
Michael Nicholls – IFS
Allan Ross – First Independent Finance
Paul Mildenstein – Liberis
The FP Show has released its extensive 2014 Conference Programme….
Leave a comment