Mohammad Farrukh Raza – Managing Director, IFAAS

• North Africa’s changing political landscape and its impact on the development of Islamic finance in Morocco
• Establishing Casablanca as North Africa’s Islamic finance hub: Does Morocco have the political will to succeed
• Significance of the new banking rules on establishing Morocco’s Islamic finance sector
• Entry of foreign banks into Morocco’s Islamic finance sector — regulations, ease of entry, bank ownership rules
• How will the introduction of participation banking alleviate the sluggish growth of the financial services industry
• Pursuing investment flows from key trading partners: How can Morocco distinguish itself from its competitors

Boubkeur Ajdir – Director of France, North and West Africa Business, IFAAS Group
Mohammed Ghiyath Sheikhah – Head of Local & International Investments, Treasury & Investments, QIIB
Youssef Baghdadi – Chairman of the Board, Dar Assafaa

Boubkeur Ajdir – Director of France, North and West Africa Business, IFAAS Group

• Vital considerations in creating a legislative framework and taxation regime aimed at advancing Islamic banking transactions
• Developing an enabling regulatory framework that will promote financial innovation
• Ensuring a collaborative strategy to encourage the success of both Islamic windows and fully fledged participation banks
• Can Islamic finance play a meaningful role in increasing banking penetration and intermediation?
• What does the absence of a comprehensive regulatory framework mean for potential Sukuk issuers

Alain Verbeken – Director, Cross-Border Tax, Deloitte Tax & Consulting Luxembourg
Mohammad Farrukh Raza – Managing Director, IFAAS
Salima Bennani – Managing Director, Compensation Fund of Morocco

• Vital considerations in setting up a Shariah board
• Emergence of foreign banks in the domestic Islamic finance space — what impact will this have on how the market develops
• Encouraging cross-border collaboration and facilitating market players’ knowledge transfer for further growth
• Examining critical issues affecting Islamic finance and steps to overcome them: Governance and risk, ratings, standardization of documents, harmonization of laws

Anas Jaffal – Consultant, IFAAS
Stella Cox – Managing Director, DDCAP group

• Increasing access to funding sources for Moroccan corporate and sovereigns through the development of a dynamic Islamic capital market
• Outlook for sovereign and corporate Sukuk issuances in 2013: What’s in the pipeline for Morocco
• The urgent need for a tax and regulatory framework and how issuers may sidestep regulatory impediments
• Developing  Shariah compliant instruments to alleviate Morocco’s liquidity shortage
• How Islamic finance structures can facilitate funding infrastructure development in Morocco

Farid Mohamed Masmoudi – Business Development and Partnership Director, Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD)
Houda Chafil – Managing Director, Maghreb Titrisation
Laurence Toxe – Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright, France

• Developing Islamic retail banking products to stimulate Morocco’s underdeveloped retail banking sector
• Tapping the latent demand for Shariah compliant retail offerings: Discussing suitable structures and Shariah considerations
• Market outlook for private investment funds and wealth management products
• Identifying current trends and innovations in product structures globally and application in the Moroccan context
• Outlook for commercial banking products and Shariah compliant trade finance
• Initiatives and developments in Takaful and reTakaful – future growth prospects and challenges

Ahmed Tahiri Jouti – Member, Islamic Finance Project Team – Societe Generale
Khalil Labniouri – Commercial Director & Member of the board, Dar Assafaa
Said Amaghdir – Chairman, Moroccan Association for Participative Finance Professionals – Sharia Compliant (AMFP)