Fitch to Host Brazilian Corp Credit Rtg Roundtable Conf in Sao Paulo.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2000 Managing corporate credit risk in Brazil will be the focus of an upcoming Fitch roundtable conference, "Gerenciando Risco de Credito Corporativo no Mercado de Capitais Brasileiro". The conference to be held at the Sheraton Mofarrej Hotel in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2000, will feature a panel of guest speakers including key issuers, investors, investment bankers Investment Banker A person representing a financial institution that is in the business of raising capital for corporations and municipalities. Notes: An investment banker may not accept deposits or make commercial loans. and government officials involved in the Brazilian debt capital markets. Discussions will cover topical credit issues facing Brazilian corporates, sector-specific issues in the Brazilian telecommunications and energy industries, and strategies for successful debt offerings, which are designed to lower capital costs for Brazilian corporate borrowers. "Fitch's series of credit rating roundtable conferences throughout the region have become some of the premier events covering the local credit markets," said Rafael Guedes, managing director and head of Fitch's Brazilian office. "Our roundtable conferences are attended by hundreds of leading institutional investors Institutional Investor A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. , investment bankers, CFOs and other parties interested in Brazil and the Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. region." Scheduled speakers for the roundtable include Luiz Kaufman, Superintendant, Association of Brazilian Investment Bankers (ANBID ANBID Associação Nacional dos Bancos de Investimento (Brazil, National Association of the Banks of Investment) ), Marcelo Guidfrida, vice president, Anbid, Banco CCF CCF abbr. Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada Brasil, Luiz David Travesso, presidente, AES Brazil, and Marcio Guedes, managing director, Unibanco. Scheduled speakers will also include senior managers of Fitch's Brazilian and Latin American rating team including; Rafael Guedes, managing director and head of Fitch's Brazil office, Jayme Bartling, Brazil corporate finance analyst, William T. Hayes, CFA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986) Signed into law in 1986, the CFA was a significant step forward in criminalizing unauthorized access to computer systems and networks. The Act applies to "federal interest computers" that include any system used by the U.S. , managing director and regional director of Fitch's Latin America group, and Daniel R. Kastholm, CFA, senior director of Fitch's Latin American corporate finance group. Fitch is an international rating agency that provides global capital market investors with the highest quality ratings and research. Dual headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London with a major office in Chicago, Fitch rates entities in 75 countries and has some 1,100 employees in more than 40 local offices worldwide. The agency, which is a combination of Fitch IBCA IBCA International Braille Chess Association IBCA Institute of Burial and Cremation Administration IBCA Integrated Business Communications Alliance IBCA International Barbeque Cookers Association IBCA Department of Interior Board of Contract Appeals and Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., provides ratings for Financial Institutions, Banks, Corporations, Structured Finance, Insurance, Sovereigns and Public Finance Markets worldwide. For more information about Fitch's Brazilian Corporates roundtable conference please contact Luciana Simoes, Fitch Brazil at 011/287-3177 or email: maria.simoes@fitchratings.com. |
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