Company website: http://www.smbcgroup.com

Profile

About SMBC Group:

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 140 offices and 86,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges. As of December 31, 2021, its total assets were $2.18 trillion.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities Canada, Ltd., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Event Sponsorships

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023 - Gold Sponsor

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Turkey 2022 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds & Loans Mexico 2022 Virtual - Gold Sponsor

Bonds & Loans Latin America & Caribbean 2022 - Platinum Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023 - Gold Sponsor

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds & Loans Latin America & Caribbean 2022 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Turkey 2022 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds & Loans Brazil 2021 - Virtual Conference - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds & Loans Andes 2021 - Virtual Conference - Gold Sponsor

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

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

Contributors

Alfredo Santillan

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Bonds & Loans Mexico 2022 Virtual

• What is the outlook for project finance given the limited pipeline of projects and political uncertainty?

Juan Arbelaez

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Bonds & Loans Mexico 2022 Virtual

• Strategies for banks to optimize capital allocation and increase the supply of loan transactions

Lydia Brookes

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• LIBOR transition: What are the remaining challenges for the GCC banking sector? How could this affect pricing?

Abdulaziz Al Megren

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Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023

• Underwriting and syndicating loans post-COVID: Which banks can support Saudi Arabia’s corporates funding needs?

Naa Aku Jäätma

Karim Jaroudi

Cristhyan Rey

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Bonds & Loans Latin America & Caribbean 2022

• The pathway to fund Latin American renewable energy projects: To what extent does diversification in PPAs make these projects (more) bankable?

Nicholas Samara

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• CAPEX vs refinancing: How much funding do MENA corporates need?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• So much demand and not enough supply: Are sukuk market technicals stacking up?

Natalya Tueva

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ESG & Capital Markets Africa 2021 - Virtual

• To what extent is there a mispricing of African risk when it comes to ESG?

Guilherme Alice

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Bonds & Loans Brazil 2021 - Virtual Conference

• From market-maker to market facilitator: How is the infrastructure funding gap left by BNDES going to be filled?

Bernardo Ramirez

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Aaron E. Franklin

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Bonds & Loans Brazil Virtual 2022

• Transitioning towards sustainable financing and navigating “greenwashing” risks

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

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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

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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

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Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023

• Channelling domestic wealth into domestic projects: Understanding the key players, frameworks and incentives to build the Saudi project finance market from within

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• GCC Structured and project bonds: Is the market finally taking off?

Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference

• SMBC opening remarks

Olivier Nicolas

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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

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020

Leonardo Osorio

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020

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

Sara Pirzada

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Bonds & Loans Latin America & Caribbean 2022

• How is the lending landscape in Latin America & the Caribbean changing amid market turbulence? What will it look like in 2023?

Bonds & Loans Latin America & Caribbean 2022

• Underwriting and syndicating loans in 2022 and beyond: Who is lending, at what price and on what terms?

Bonds & Loans Brazil 2021 - Virtual Conference

• How are deals being priced for Brazilian borrowers and issuers looking to raise both short and long-term debt?

Bonds & Loans Andes 2021 - Virtual Conference

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

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

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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

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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

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Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference

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

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2019

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

Thomas Waterhouse

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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

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Bonds & Loans Latin America & Caribbean 2022

• Reshaping Latin America’s project finance sector: How are financing strategies of Latin American projects being affected by the new interest rate environment?

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

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

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

Luis Fernando Perdigon

Rodolfo M. Valente

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Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2018

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

Eric Zimny

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Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Africa’s loan market under the microscope: unpacking supply, demand and the impact of COVID-19

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• Syndicated loan markets: Can banks bridge the gap between borrower demands for better pricing and longer tenor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Turkey 2021 Virtual Conference

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

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?

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

Alexandre Miranda

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Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2019

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

Achilles Suarez

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Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2019

• Chairman’s opening remarks

Philip Watkins

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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

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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

Roger Horn

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Bonds & Loans Mexico 2022 Virtual

• Evaluating the economic and financial implications of the energy reform proposals

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Argentina 2018

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Brazil 2018

• Ratings and Brazil’s capital markets: When will agencies act and what will be the impact on the markets?

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?