GUANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The second Halter Financial Summit "2012, the End or the Beginning?" will be held in Guangzhou from December 10th to 12th. It is an industry event gathering financial and economic elites all over the world.
The honorable Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States of America, and the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, MP, 2007-2010 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, have confirmed their attendance to the summit, who joined by other great minds will unveil the blueprint of the global capital market. Around 100 selected companies, over 400 executives from prominent Chinese companies and over 300 global institutional investors will gather at this annual event of the global financial community, making it an excellent communications platform between Chinese enterprises and the global market.
2011 Halter Financial Summit Kick-off Conference was held in Guangzhou on September 15th. Ms. Li Xiaolin, Vice-President of CPAFFC; Mr. Tim Halter, Founder & CEO of Halter Financial Group; Mr. Yuxing Ruan, Vice President, Listing & Issuer Services of Deutsche Borse AG; and Mr. Xie Hong, General Secretary, Guangdong Council for the Development Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises, attended the Kick-off Conference and delivered speeches.
The Summit with the theme of "2012, the End or the Beginning?" is co-hosted by Halter Financial Group and CPAFFC, and organized by Guangdong Council for the Development Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises.
The two-day Halter Financial Summit consists of a main forum and several sub-forums. The main forum will analyze the current state of the global economy, while the sub-forums will provide solutions to specific investment and financing problems. The Main Forum will feature Mr. Jimmy Carter and the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown as keynote speakers. In addition, executives of financial institutions, government officials, notable economists, investors and entrepreneurs will discuss the current conditions and trends of the global economy in the context of financial crises, price bubbles, exchange rate fluctuations, speculation waves, political unrests, natural calamities and other dangers, so as to forecast the global economic trend for 2012.
The sub-forums at the 2011 Halter Financial Summit will be hosted by world-renowned stock exchanges, accounting firms, law firms and financial institutions. Global financial experts will address the specific issues faced by the summit attendees in investment, financing and management.
The summit will also launch Company Presentations & One-on-One Meetings designed to facilitate the communication between global institutional investors and Chinese enterprises. This year’s Company Presentations & One-on-one Meetings will be presented on November 12th, with a scientific matching system designed to maximize the efficiency and chance of success for the participating enterprises and institutional investors.
According to Ms. Li Xiaolin, promoting economic cooperation is a major task of CPAFFC, and they have been very glad to cooperate with Halter Financial Group for Halter Financial Summit since last year. Both China and US have great influences on the world, and Halter Financial Summit is significant in promoting economic exchanges between China and the United States.
Tim Halter said that Halter Financial Summit was held successfully with the support from all social circles. China is the most quickly developing and the most powerful country recovering from the financial crisis and has overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest economy. The investment opportunities in China are drawing the attention of more and more global investors. Halter Financial Summit held in China can provide them with the most valuable industry insights, helping them seize China's opportunities in a changing world.
Mr. Xie Hong said that Guangdong Council for the Development Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises aims at promoting business communication and strategic cooperation. As a communications platform between Chinese enterprises and global investors, Halter Financial Summit offers enterprise owners perfect opportunities to contact and meet with the world’s well-known investors.
Deutsche Borse AG is a two-year participant for Halter Financial Summit. Mr. Yuxing Ruan said that Halter Financial Summit provides overseas investors with a great platform to know Chinese enterprises. As the incident of Chinese concept stocks indicated, although Chinese enterprises are recognized and trusted by many overseas investors, few of them are familiar with Chinese enterprises. If possible, they should come to China more often and learn more.
The speakers confirmed to attend the Summit are as follows: The Honorable Jimmy Carter, The 39th President of the United States of America; The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, MP, 2007-2010 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Mr. Pieter Bottelier, Economist and China Scholar Former Chief of the World Bank's Resident Mission in China; Mr. Xia Bin, Counsellor, Counsellor’s Office of the State Council Director-general of the Financial Research Institution of DRC of the State Council; Ms. Li Xiaolin, Vice-President of CPAFFC; Mr. Tim Halter, Founder & CEO of Halter Financial Group and etc.
The first Halter Financial Summit was held successfully in Shanghai in April 2010 with a gathering of the world's top-level executives, government officials, financial professionals, economists and investors. Distinguished guests attending the Summit were as follows: The Honorable George W. Bush, The 43rd President of the United States of America; Mr. John Snow, Secretary of the Treasury (2003-2006); Mr. Yu Zhengsheng, CPC Central Committee & Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee; Ms. Li Xiaolin, Vice-President of CPAFFC & Joint Chairman of HFS; Mr. Pieter Bottelier, Economist and China Scholar Former Chief of the World Bank’s Resident Mission in China; Mr. Norbert Walter, Former Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank; Mr. Xia Bin, Counsellor, Counsellor's Office of the State Council Director-general of the Financial Research Institution of DRC of the State Council; Mr. Zhang Yujun, General Manager Shanghai Stock Exchange; Mr. Rainer Riess, Member of Management Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and etc.
About Halter Financial Summit
Halter Financial Summit is an annual event that gathers financial professionals worldwide. Initiated and organized by Halter Financial Group, it is attended by top-level executives, government officials, financial professionals, economists, and investors. Besides the Main Forum, Halter Financial Summit also includes The Company Presentations & One-on-One Meetings which are to facilitate the interactions between international investors seeking for projects and Chinese enterprises looking for financing. These activities offer both parties a communications platform in an most effective and efficient way.
About Halter Financial Group
Found by Tim Halter in 1995, HFG is a comprehensive financial group that specializes in providing enterprises with financial services. HFG CHINA, established by HFG in 2003, focuses on providing high-growth Chinese enterprises with all-around financial services. Its businesses cover investment banking, asset management and ect.; and detailed services include public-listing advisory, securities underwriting, M&A advisory and etc.
HFG CHINA can help Chinese companies go public-listing in major global capital markets such as US, Germany and Hong Kong. So far it has successfully assisted twenty Chinese companies in going public on major US exchanges, and helped a few complete their pre-IPO financing.
In 2009, HFG CHINA became a listing partner of Deutsche Borse, the largest exchange in the world. In June of the same year, it helped a client company successfully entered the senior market of Deutsche Borse.