Standard & Poor's Risk-Adjusted Capital Framework
For Financial Institutions
Time: May 20, 2008 (Tuesday) 09:30 am ~11:30 am
Venue: Emerald Room (2F), Miramar Garden Taipei
(# 83, Civil Boulevard, Section 3)
Organized by: Taiwan Ratings Corp. and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is updating the way it evaluates the capital adequacy of financial institutions worldwide. So far, we've published information on our general framework for risk-adjusted capital and we are now requesting comments from the global finance practitioners.

With this opportunity, Standard & Poor's wishes to enhance the Risk-Adjusted Capital Framework to a more transparent, consistent risk adjusted capital assessment model to maintain the comparability and consistency of Standard & Poor's Global scale ratings. The framework will then provide a capital structure analysis and comparison with peers for the banking industry.

Craig Bennett, one of the speakers from Standard & Poor's, is a director within the Corporate & Government Services group, and is Team Leader for financial institutions ratings in Australia and New Zealand. He is also a member of the analytical team responsible for drafting the "Risk-Adjusted Capital Framework".

Speakers:

• Craig Bennett（Director of the Corporate & Government Services group, Standard & Poor's）- [Power Point Slides]
  
• Daisuke Fukutomi (Vice President and Chief Rating Officer, Taiwan Ratings Corp.）- [Power Point Slides]
  
• Susan Chu（Vice President of Financial Services Ratings, Taiwan Ratings Corp.）