- Date: 14 - 15 April 2026
- Venue: Mövenpick Grand Al Bustan Dubai, UAE
Agenda
08:30 AM Registration and Morning Coffee
Opening and Welcome Remarks from the Chairperson
Keynote Address:
Plenary One: IFRS 9's Impact on Financial Reporting
This session examines how IFRS 9 has transformed financial reporting and debt recovery practices. Participants will explore core components, including recognition, classification, measurement, and impairment frameworks for financial instruments. The discussion compares IFRS 9 with IAS 39, highlighting key improvements, and covers practical applications for managing financial asset categories and implementing real-world impairment assessments.
Plenary Two: Essential Lending Fundamentals
This session reviews core lending concepts, frameworks, and operational systems. Participants will explore best practices for borrower data collection and evaluation, authorisation procedures, and collateral standards. The session covers loan disbursement processes, fund allocation, and comprehensive loan administration. Discussion includes how IFRS 9 and CRD IV regulations impact lending methodologies and capital adequacy requirements.
Morning Refreshments
Plenary Three: Risk Identification and Prevention Strategies
This session develops skills to recognise early warning signs and deploy proactive risk detection methods. Participants will learn the importance of comprehensive data collection and ongoing monitoring systems while optimising risk-return balance. The session provides practical guidance on implementing security protocols and timing corrective interventions effectively.
Plenary Four: Critical Initial Response to Financial Distress
This session covers essential early-intervention measures for troubled borrowers. Participants will explore operational recovery methods, financial reorganisation tactics, and root cause analysis. Key topics include selecting remedial strategies, internal credit ratings, loan viability assessments, foreclosure procedures, and restructuring solutions. The session emphasises strategic planning, recovery management, legal considerations, and post-intervention monitoring.
Plenary Five: Formal Restructuring Methodologies and Leading Practices
This session examines shadow director involvement and related insolvency implications. The discussion covers moratorium arrangements, forbearance frameworks, and creditor coordination committees. Participants will address formal restructuring obstacles and explore developing market practices, gaining systematic approaches for complex recovery situations.
Lunch
Plenary Six: Default Response Strategies – Formal versus Informal Interventions
This session examines decision-making models for actual or anticipated defaults. It covers when intervention is cost-effective, mandatory action circumstances, and the principle that "early losses minimise total exposure." Participants will explore managing difficulties for both institutions and borrowers, coordinating syndicated loans and multi-bank relationships. Key themes include proportionate responses, objective decision-making, and maintaining a business-focused approach throughout collections.
Plenary Seven: Initiating the Recovery Process
This session provides practical guidance on immediate response measures, including assessing liquidation versus restructuring alternatives and selecting appropriate receivership arrangements. The discussion covers moratorium mechanisms, creditor responses, and available pathways for lenders and borrowers. Key areas include cost-benefit evaluation, risk-return analysis, and considering strategic, political, and reputational factors in decision-making.
Afternoon Refreshment
Plenary Eight: Cash Flow Analysis – Validating Restructuring Viability
This session covers assessing restructuring effectiveness through comprehensive cash flow modelling and developing realistic repayment frameworks. Participants will learn to conduct appropriate stress testing, implement client-specific sensitivity analysis, and value distressed assets while comparing going-concern versus liquidation scenarios. The session includes benchmarking repayment capacity, constructing practical banker cash flow models, and ensuring compliance with internal protocols and IFRS 9 requirements.
Plenary Nine: Immediate Restructuring Solutions
This session examines tactical restructuring approaches including interest deferrals, write-offs, debt-to-equity conversions, principal forgiveness, asset disposals, and third-party debt transfers. The discussion focuses on evaluating whether immediate interventions can halt deterioration, formulating recovery plans, clarifying borrower-lender responsibilities, and establishing implementation frameworks with ongoing monitoring mechanisms.
Closing remarks
End of Day One
Registration and Morning Coffee
Opening and Welcome Remarks from the Chairperson
Plenary Ten: Sustainable Financial Recovery Through Long-Term Restructuring
This session focuses on restoring borrowers to enduring financial stability through comprehensive long-term restructuring. It covers reorganisation of troubled entities, cash flow optimisation, and credible forecasting across multiple scenarios. The discussion includes expense reduction and revenue enhancement viability, strategic realignment, management improvements, suitable financing arrangements, realistic timeframes, and ongoing monitoring protocols for successful rehabilitation.
Plenary Eleven: Navigating Real-World Implementation Challenges
This session covers implementing standstill agreements in practical scenarios and determining their appropriateness across different circumstances. Participants will learn to obtain necessary approvals, measure standstill success, and balance conflicting stakeholder expectations. The discussion includes setting attainable milestones, utilising security assessment techniques, handling terminally distressed borrowers, and ensuring IFRS 9 Stage 3 compliance.
Morning Refreshments
Plenary Twelve: Managing Complex Large-Scale Defaults
This session addresses substantial default challenges, including relationship-based lending and corporate group structures. Participants will explore handling special-purpose vehicles, inter-company dependencies, and corporate guarantee frameworks. The discussion covers letters of comfort, affiliated party risks, leverage ratio assessments, emergency rescue scenarios, and implementing actionable strategies for large-scale recovery operations.
Plenary Thirteen: Optimising Recovery Performance
This session develops effective collection strategies through realistic goal-setting and objective case analysis while recognising individual borrower characteristics. The discussion covers understanding borrower behavioural patterns, applying the "three C's" framework, identifying success drivers, strategically deploying relationship managers, and determining optimal collection methodology combinations for maximum recovery outcomes.
Plenary Fourteen: Managing Failed Negotiations and Stalled Discussions
This session examines scenarios when negotiations deteriorate or collapse. Participants will explore setting limits for renewed attempts, the strategic role of legal proceedings, evaluating reputational consequences, maintaining credit protocol adherence, pursuing assertive collection actions, and utilising arbitration or mediation as alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
Lunch
Plenary Fifteen: International Insolvency and Restructuring Procedures
This session covers managing insolvency and restructuring cases across multiple legal jurisdictions. Participants will examine the UNCITRAL Model Law framework, explore the "Center of Main Interest" (COMI) concept, distinguish between "Main Proceeding" and "Non-Main Proceeding" categories, coordinate multi-jurisdictional insolvency efforts, and develop cross-border collaboration protocols for international restructuring scenarios.
Plenary Sixteen: Non-Judicial Debt Restructuring Solutions
This session explores extrajudicial restructuring approaches within the influence of insolvency legislation. Participants will apply INSOL guidelines for multi-creditor arrangements, utilise Asian Bankers Association template agreements, and implement moratorium mechanisms and forbearance frameworks. The discussion covers coordinating creditor committees for effective restructuring and addressing challenges specific to developing market environments.
Afternoon Refreshments
Plenary Seventeen: Determining When to Cease Recovery Efforts
This session addresses critical decision-making for discontinuing recovery initiatives. Participants will learn to identify appropriate cessation points, distinguish between viable and hopeless situations, and conduct risk-reward assessments. The discussion emphasises maintaining objectivity, balancing public responsibilities against financial costs, and covers effective foreclosure management and strategic utilisation of external agencies for support and enforcement.
Plenary Eighteen: Advanced Analytics and AI – Integration of Advanced Technologies
This session explores the strategic implementation of digital solutions to enhance lending decision-making processes. Participants will examine how advanced analytics improve credit risk assessment and discover AI-powered tools that drive operational efficiency. The discussion covers automation opportunities across the complete lending lifecycle and evaluates Generative AI's transformative potential in optimising corporate lending operations.
