Event summary

Hear and discuss critical issues

The last two years have been extremely challenging for the European automotive finance industry. Frozen credit markets coupled with stagnant economies impacted both the consumer and leasing industries, with former propped up by government scrappage schemes and the latter struggling with falling residuals, frozen corporate budgets and a slew of environmental and regulatory demands. The combined impact of stimulus packages, recession and discounting may resonate throughout the industry for years to come.

This event has been designed to highlight opportunities arising from the difficult market conditions, moving beyond cost-cutting to innovation in product and service offerings and indentifying sustainable, profitable trends over the longer term.

Critical Issues to be discussed include:

• How does the role of automotive finance companies need to change to keep ahead of constantly shifting operating environments?
• How can the residual value model move away from historial forecasting to real-time driven market intelligence?
• Which opportunities in the leasing sector are sustainable, and how do you capture your share of the market?
• How can captives exploit the full potential of trade cycle management?
• Collaborating with banks vs in-house captive financing; does one offer greater ROI than the other?

This year's highlights:

• Rethinking your approach to captive finance
• Achieving the full potential of your profit centres
• Driving innovation in adapting current offerings to new trends
• Maintaining a global approach to a local market
• Understanding the trends that must shape your plan and product portfolio

Who should attend

This programme has been researched extensively and convened with the cooperation of senior executives responsible for auto finance within their organisations. The executives that will realise the greatest benefit through attendance are:

OEMs/Captive Finance companies and Leasing organisations

CEOs, COOs, Managing Director and Board Members, executives in charge of:

• International Startegy / Development
• Marketing and Sales
• Business Development

Financial Institutions

Executives responsible for:

• Consumer Finance
• Leasing
• International Strategy / Development
• Automotive