Company website: https://www.smbcgroup.com/emea/home/

Profile

With over four centuries of history and rooted in the stability of Japan and growth of Asia, SMBC Group reaches out around the world to provide the advice, connections and support that create value. Our customers in Africa and MENA choose SMBC Group because we offer local knowledge and global expertise.

With one of the most extensive domestic and international branch networks of any Japanese bank, SMBC Group uses the strength of its extensive footprint with powerful capabilities in loan and debt capital markets, project and trade finance, and a wide range of other financial services to deliver customer-focused, integrated solutions.

African & MENA customers benefit from SMBC Group's position as a world leader in loan capital markets bookrunning and arranging of loan facilities, including structuring, pricing, advising, executing and distribution of syndicated loans. A specialist debt capital markets team can provide expert advice and execution in core markets for public and private bond issuance, and offer issuers with guidance through the process from structuring, documentation and legal requirements, to execution of relevant funding solutions and investor relations. Particular focus is dedicated to corporate and structured finance and emerging market benchmark transactions for distribution to an international investor audience.

Event sponsorships

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020 - Platinum Sponsor

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2020 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Andes 2020 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Andes 2019 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Saudi Arabia 2019 - Silver Sponsor

Project Finance & Capital Markets Latin America 2019 - Gold Sponsor

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2019 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Turkey 2019 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2019 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2019 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2018 - Gold Sponsor

Virtual Event sponsorships

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference - Gold Sponsor

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference - Gold Sponsor

Project Finance & Capital Markets Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference - Gold Sponsor

Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference - Gold Sponsor

Contributors

Aaron E. Franklin

Speaker at these virtual events:

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Transitioning finance: Why issuers will increasingly incorporate ESG and SDG themed bonds and loans to drive down cost of funding

Pablo Pulido

Speaker at these virtual events:

Project Finance & Capital Markets Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

• How to reactivate USD investment into Colombia’s peso-denominated 5G infrastructure projects

Marc de Saint Gerand

Speaker at these virtual events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Structurally changed and adapted: How to manage oil and gas assets in a rapidly transitioning marketplace

Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Developing projects amidst ratings downgrades and falling oil price: How to make projects bankable in oil-reliant economies

Laughlan Waterston

Speaker at these virtual events:

Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference

• SMBC opening remarks

Olivier Nicolas

Speaker at these virtual events:

Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Balancing ESG with structure and liquidity: Is there a liquidity and/or price advantage for green and sustainable debt?

Raphael Dumas

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020

Leonardo Osorio

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020

• How is COVID-19 and the fall in oil prices impacting infrastructure deals in Latin America?

Sara Pirzada

Speaker at these virtual events:

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Underwriting and syndicating loans in 2021: Who is lending, at what price and on what terms?

Project Finance & Capital Markets Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Bank’s perspective on committing to projects: What has changed in the COVID- era? What are banks thinking from a lending perspective?

David Gonzalez

Chao Li

Speaker at these events:

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2019

• Funding MENA’s renewable energy future: How is the increasing shift to sustainable energy impacting investment into renewable projects?

Semih Ozkan

Speaker at these events:

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2019

• Optimising trade finance efficiency and performance: What products and solutions are borrowers using to raise and free-up working capital?

Duncan Allison

Speaker at these events:

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2019

• The take-off of the PPP market - trends, opportunities and challenges

Speaker at these virtual events:

Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Sponsors, banks or capital markets: Where will project risk be (re)allocated post-COVID19?

Thomas Waterhouse

Speaker at these events:

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2019

• Chairman’s opening remarks
• Chairman’s closing remarks followed by networking cocktail reception hosted by Shearman & Sterling

David Gonzalez

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Andes 2020

• Assessing lenders’ and investors’ appetite for the 2020 infrastructure project pipeline

Project Finance & Capital Markets Latin America 2020

• Chairman’s opening remarks
• Chairman’s closing remarks followed by networking cocktail reception

Speaker at these virtual events:

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Dollar funding for local projects: How to re-attract international investors to Colombia’s 5G infrastructure programme

Luis Fernando Perdigon

Rodolfo M. Valente

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2018

• Project finance: How can Brazil efficiently channel private sector investment into infrastructure projects?

Eric Zimny

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Saudi Arabia 2019

• Loan Financing in Saudi Arabia: How can borrowers and lenders work together to extract maximum mutual benefit?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2019

• Underwrite-to-distribute vs. Club vs. Bilateral: How to lend in Africa in 2019
• Chairman’s opening remarks

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2018

Speaker at these virtual events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• How are syndicated loan bankers balancing structure and liquidity to meet client pricing expectations

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference

• How have banks’ approach to lending in the syndicated market changed in the COVID era?

Alexandre Miranda

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2019

• Funding post-BNDES: How to finance infrastructure concessions in the new Brazil

Arthur Rubin

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2019

• The Bulls, the Bears and the Heads of Debt Capital Markets: Gauging investor sentiment for Brazil and its outlook

Speaker at these virtual events:

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Optimising capital structures in a crisis: How top tier corporates have adapted their finance and investments during and in response to the health crisis

Achilles Suarez

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2019

• Chairman’s opening remarks

Philip Watkins

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020

• From green to transition: Has the sustainable development goal (SDG) linked bond fundamentally redefined the market’s approach to ESG-capital markets?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Antony Gurton

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020

• Analysing the supply and demand factors that will drive syndicated loan markets in 2020

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Articles from Bonds & Loans

• 16 Jul 2020: #BondsLoans24 - How is COVID-19 and the fall in oil prices impacting infrastructure deals in Latin America?
• 13 Jul 2020: #BondsLoans24 - Size, price, tenor… but what are global banks’ criteria for lending to the region?
• 8 Jul 2020: #BondsLoans24 - Bonds vs. loans, USD vs. local currency: How can borrowers access short, medium and long term capital?