10th Annual Asset Backed Commercial Paper Summit, March 20-21, 2007, New York City.

NEW YORK -- ALM's Strategic Research Institute presents the 10th Annual Asset Backed Commercial Paper Summit, scheduled for March 20-21, in New York City. Asset backed commercial paper outstandings have surpassed the $1-trillion milestone. As the leading ABS industry event in commercial paper, this year's forum will host more than 50 faculty participants and address such topics as:

* ABCP: Warehousing Options and Strategies for Whole Loan Securitization/MBS/ABS/CDO Requirements

* State of the ABCP Market: One Trillion Dollars and Counting

* BASLE II: A Thorough Evaluation of Regulation on the ABCP Market

* An Examination of Market Drivers in the Euro ABCP Market

* Buyside! A Comprehensive Evaluation of Investor ABCP Strategies and Funding

* Best Practices in Surveillance, Reporting and Transparency in ABCP

* Searching for and Finding Relative Value in ABCP and Differentiating Among ABCP Issuers

* Commercial Credit Insurance in ABCP Transactions - Alternative to Wraps?

* SIV or Conduit: The Direction of Financial Engineering and ABCP

* Use of ABCP in CDOs and SIV Lites

* Refinements and Innovation in Extendible-Note Programs: Liquidity Driven Innovation

* Trader's Panel: Selling and Placing Paper - Dynamics and Strategies

* ABCP in a Company's Capital Structure: Integrating ABCP Efficiently to Solve Corporate Needs Economist Presentation

Sponsors for this year's event include:

* Moody's Investors Service

* Standard & Poor's

* CALYON

* JPMorgan

* Dominion Bond Rating Service

* Fitch Ratings

* ABN AMRO

* Banc of America Securities LLC

* Global Securitized Markets (GSM) Group (Citigroup)

* Credit Suisse

* Deutsche Bank

* Goldman Sachs

* Lehman Brothers

* Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

* Morgan Stanley

* Chapman and Cutler LLP

* JPMorgan Commercial Paper

* Lord Securities Corporation

* Principia

* SunGard's AvantGard

Sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities are still available. For more information, please contact:

Rita Karsadi
Senior Director, Business Development
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The Strategic Research Institute is part of ALM's Conference and Trade Show Division, one of North America's largest producers of educational and networking events for business leaders and the legal profession. The division offers more than 300 conferences and two leading industry tradeshows, as well as conferences in Europe and Asia. Attendance at the division's events, which span a broad range of topics including law, finance, natural resources, life sciences, multi-cultural marketing, real estate and healthcare, will exceed 40,000 executive-level decision makers this year.

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