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

Business Wire, Dec 12, 2007

NEW YORK -- 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/A0508

Contact: info@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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