February 28, 2005

Banking Production Center (BPC) will be sponsoring the 1st International conference "Consumer Lending in Russia 2005", which will take place in the framework of the exhibition "CreditEXPO 2005" from 14 to 15 April 2005 at "Expocenter" Exhibition Center, Moscow.

The conference "Consumer Lending in Russia 2005", as well as the exhibition "CreditEXPO 2005", will be held for the first time. The event will bring together professionals in the consumer lending market, who are supposed to discuss a wide range of issues focusing on crediting policy of the Russian Federation, international experience of consumer lending, specific features of the payment card market in Russia etc.

The conference will be attended by government representatives, executives of management companies, investment banks, law firms, insurance companies, leading financial and industrial holdings, IT-companies. The event will be featuring speakers from top-level Russian and international financial institutions — Citibank, Home Credit & Finance, Alfa-bank, MDM-bank etc.

BPC Consulting Director Alexander Gorunov will take the floor in the 3rd conference session presenting "The integrated solution supporting all stages of credit processing as the reflection of today's lending business demands". In his presentation Alexander will address the opportunities arising for the financial institutions challenged by the retail business, cover the major obstacles on the way of consumer lending development and provide in-depth view on how the whole credit lifecycle can be supported by an integrated solution, incorporating all consumer lending functionality from application processing to debt collection.

More information about the conference is available at http://www.creditexpo.ru.