Reform Trends: Challenges and Successes

This panel examines recent reform efforts in secured transactions law, with a particular focus on developments across the Asian region in the global context. Presentations will highlight both the challenges faced during implementation and the successes achieved in enhancing access to credit and improving legal certainty, including through emerging practices that are shaping the future of secured transactions.

Moderator: Ms. Monica Canafoglia, Legal Officer, UNCITRAL

• Mr. Murat Sultanov, Senior Operations Officer, Financial Institutions Group Advisory, IFC

• Ms. Miha Isoi, Attorney-at-law, former JICA Senior Adviser, Legal Adviser to International Cooperation Department, Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice of Japan

• Ms. Angelia Chia, Senior Counsel, Trade and Supply Chain (Legal), Office of the General Counsel, ADB

• Mr. Julius Caesar Parreñas, Coordinator, APEC/ABAC Asia-Pacific Financial Forum; and Managing Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

• Ms. Stellah Kakwezi Olimi, Assistant Commissioner, Head of Chattels Securities Registration, Uganda Registration Services Bureau

• Mr. Charles Booth, Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law (IAPBL), William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Manoa & Senior Advisor, Parabellum Capital