7th Annual Asset Based Lending in the Capital Markets Summit Comes to Scottsdale,...

7th Annual Asset Based Lending in the Capital Markets Summit Comes to Scottsdale, AZ- Feb. 13-14, 2008

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--Strategic Research Institute and the Commercial Finance
Association present the 2008 pre-eminent lending conference structured
for asset based and commercial finance professionals active in Asset
Based Lending Syndications and the Upper Tier Asset Based Lending
Markets, both in the U.S. and Europe.

The Turmoil in the Financial Markets prompted by the Sub-prime
Mortgage Meltdown has spread to sectors such as the structured
commercial paper market and Collateralized Loan Obligations, among
others. Universal bank and investment bank earnings have been
adversely affected and financial institutions are counting pennies and
uttering the dreaded RIF. How has the Liquidity Squeeze impacted the
ABL Market? Are tightening Loan Restrictions favoring secured Asset
Based Lenders? Will the Distressed Debt Market Take Off, as has been
expected for Years?

In its seventh year, the summit is endorsed and co-hosted by the
Commercial Finance Association and encompasses topical issues for
major asset based focused institutions, including:

- The State of the ABL Market: Turmoil and Opportunity in the
Financial Markets

- Hedge Funds and Private Equity: Are they Changing ABL Market
Dynamics?

- Asset Based Lending and the State of the CLO Market: The Current
Relationship

- Global ABL: A Quantitative and Qualitative Examination of
International ABL Opportunities

- ABL Applications in Capital Market Leveraged Buyouts

- ABL Firing Line: Lenders on the Spot - A Q&A ABL Roundtable with
Audience Participation

- Intangible Assets: Fully Integrated into the Asset Financing
Product Spectrum?

- When does ABL become a Stretch?

- Junior Capital: How is the Subordinated Debt Market Faring?

For complete list of speakers, detailed agenda, and registration
information:

Log onto: www.almevents.com/ABL

Contact: register@almevents.com

Phone: 800-599-4950 / 212-967-0095

Sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities are still available. For
more information, please contact:

Rita Karsadi

Senior Director, Business Development

Phone: 704-243-7540

E-mail: rkarsadi@srinstitute.com

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educational and networking events for business leaders and the legal
profession. The division offers more than 300 conferences and two
leading industry tradeshows annually, on a broad range of topics.

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Strategic Research Institute
George Kent, 302-691-6065
Managing Director
gkent@srinstitute.com

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