While the Federal Budget provided a blueprint for our ‘new normal’, we will spend the next several weeks addressing the challenges and opportunities affecting lenders and their customers in order to help you navigate these unprecedented and uncertain times.
These include sessions with our industry experts across:
More sessions to be added across Manufacturing, Real Estate & Construction, Health & Aged Care and Energy, as well as a tailored presentation for Family Businesses over the coming weeks.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
Despite generational droughts, floods, trade wars and global pandemics, the Australian agribusiness, food & beverage sector has been remarkably resilient – and regularly, the envy of the world. With this also comes significant global demand on the industry, which is expected to grow. In fact, farm gate industry output is expected to grow from $59 billion to $100 billion by 2030. But this is only achievable if post farm output also grows.
So how will the industry – and its players – meet these ambitious targets? What are the opportunities to chase? But also, what is needed to do so?
We bring together our industry experts to cover the opportunities for the sector, as well as the role of innovation and policy in supporting the Australian businesses within the sector to meet this demand and grow.
This session is ideal for all bankers who want to better understand the risks, challenges and opportunities of the agribusiness, food & beverage sector and to the bank’s customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
Following the highly anticipated Federal Budget announcement last week, we will unpack what the Budget means for financial services organisations.
In 2020 the role of the financial services sector is far more important in supporting the economy. Financial services organisations are the shock absorbers and the policy partners – integral in implementing the many initiatives put forward by the Federal Government and providing hardship support for those most impacted by COVID-19. For banks to continue to provide support there needs to be continued support and guarantees from Government.
In this session, we will discuss what we were pleased to see in the Budget and areas we were expecting more, as well as the future of the sector.
This session is ideal for bankers who want Budget insights and its implications on the financial services sector and its customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
Matt Byrnes will lead our expert panel through a discussion on the status of the restructuring environment and the impact of recently announced changes, including:
This session focuses on all bankers who want to better understand the restructuring options available to the bank’s customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
With the retail sector being one of Australia’s largest employers, the industry will be central to the country’s recovery from the COVID-19 recession. It’s a sector that traditionally – and naturally – does well when consumers are doing well. When jobs are up and interest rates are down, people spend. When times are tough, purchasing habits take a hit.
What will be different coming out of this downturn to others is a new shopping landscape: where consumers now expect or need to make their purchases differently.
There is a range of options for retailers to consider as they revise and reshape their operations and business models to meet this changing demand – both within their organisations and outside.
Join us for a webinar with our retail experts, as they discuss how retailers can respond to this new shopping environment, from optimising their operations both online and offline, as well as the Government incentives and other measures available to the sector.
This session is ideal for all bankers who want to better understand the risks, challenges and opportunities of the retail sector and to the bank’s customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
In times when the bank’s customers may be experiencing some form of financial distress, acting early and understanding your rights are key.
Tianne Nagy-Jones and Lisa Gibb will provide an overview of formal insolvency administrations, with a focus on the impact on the bank when a customer appoints. This session will identify the key early warning signs to look out for in a customer, and highlight issues in relation to restructuring and turnaround options.
Consideration will also be given to the assets available to the bank, and the priorities and rights of different creditors, including the bank, in a formal insolvency scenario.
This session is ideal for bankers who are new to the asset management or workout areas, or those wanting a refresher on how formal insolvencies will impact customers post-COVID.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
The option to engage an IA or IBR can provide the bank with transparency and visibility into the customer’s business in order to better inform future lending decisions. It can also assist the customer in navigating through key challenges they may be facing in their business.
Said Jahani will consider the following as part of this session:
This session is ideal for bankers from all areas who are interested in understanding the purpose and value to the bank and the customer from undertaking a limited scope review on a customers’ business.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
Matt Byrnes will facilitate a panel discussion with experts including Paul Gooley, National Head of Corporate Finance, exploring the role of Alternate Debt and Private Equity (PE) in a post-COVID environment.
Both Alternate Debt and PE can provide a solution for the bank’s customers in the right circumstances, and there is an expectation that opportunities for these solutions are likely to increase in 2021.
What are providers looking for in a customer? What do bank customers need to be doing to best position themselves to attract funding? Our expert panel will tackle these and other questions.
This session is ideal for any banker interested in understanding the opportunities for Alternate Lenders and Private Equity to provide solutions to the bank’s customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
Innovation will be a driving force for growth and recovery from the recession. The life sciences sector attracts $1.5 billion in R&D investment each year.
This year’s Federal Budget sees the Government investing $2 billion in R&D tax incentives, removing the cap on refunds, lifting the rate and rewarding those businesses that invest the most. Additionally, the Government announced $460 million for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Sukvinder Heyer, Partner, Innovation Incentives and Lorraine Chiroiu, CEO of Ausbiotech, will discuss outcomes from the budget and the future of the sector, including the R&D tax incentive, increasing the manufacturing capability in Australia, the risk of a capital shortfall, funding for universities and regulation of the sector.
This session is ideal for all bankers who want to better understand the risks, challenges and opportunities of the life sciences sector and to the bank’s customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
In the current VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world and like no time before, the bank’s customers are challenged to improve profitability, and to adapt, restructure and grow.
In this session, Graham Killer will look at a number of strategies and concepts available. He will also share questions for bankers to use to challenge customers in the way they optimise their business today, while focusing on their business of the future. Graham will reference client stories and well-known case studies from the corporate and sporting world to support bankers to engage with customers.
This session is focused on the traditional business banking segment and their related mid-market customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
Higher education and schools face an economic period with continued pressure on future enrolments and intensified competition to attract students.
This presents an opportunity to refocus and consider the manner in which back-office functions operate or have evolved over time to deliver the intended value.
Kristy Fotiadis and Lindy Richardson, Partner at Maddocks, will explore how to maintain or reduce costs and achieve better outcomes at the same time.
This session is focused on all bankers who want to better understand the risks, challenges and opportunities of the education sector and to the bank’s customers.
This session runs for approximately 45 minutes plus time for Q&A.
In late 2019, our Grant Thornton industry panel session explored key issues facing the sector including delayed and failed settlements, fewer offshore investors, tighter development finance, the impact of a changing retail sector on valuations, and increased regulation.
Less than two months later, COVID-19 was identified in China. By March this year, many sectors were forced to close as the country braced for an extended lockdown and dire economic forecasts. Soon after, the Government announced some of the most significant stimulus packages and mandated financial relief for businesses in our lifetimes, resulting in a boom in certain sectors.
As State and Federal Government stimulus packages expire, what are the key areas of risk and opportunity for participants in the real estate and construction sector?
Phil Campbell-Wilson will lead our expert panel comprising alternate lending, development and building specialists drawing on their experiences to provide insights into the key risks and challenges facing new and existing developments, and solutions for navigating through the current crisis.
This session is ideal for any banker interested in understanding the risks, challenges and opportunities in this key sector.
