- Friday, 11 September 2026
- 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- Bali
- In-Person Executive Workshop
Overview
Financial disputes demand precision, structural clarity, and strategic forum selection. In banking and investment transactions, arbitration clauses are often embedded within complex financing documentation long before disputes arise.
When enforcement, default, regulatory scrutiny, or cross-border exposure emerges, the strength of those drafting decisions becomes critical.
This executive workshop provides a structured and practical examination of arbitration in the financial sector, focusing on banking facilities, project finance arrangements, fintech operations, and institutional enforcement mechanisms.
Designed for professionals operating in high-value financial transactions, the programme bridges contractual architecture with dispute execution strategy.
Participants Will Gain Insight Into
- Arbitration of banking loans and project finance agreements
- Structuring effective dispute resolution clauses in financial contracts
- Practical guide to financial-sector arbitration mechanisms
- Fintech and digital payment disputes
- Case study analysis: Indonesian banking arbitration compared with international arbitration clauses
Who Should Attend
This workshop is structured for senior professionals managing financial and investment risk, including:
- Banking legal and compliance teams
- Fund managers and investment professionals
- Insurance and reinsurance specialists
- Arbitration lawyers handling complex financial and investment contracts
Agenda
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 09:30 AM | Registration and morning coffee |
| 10:00 AM | Session I |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch break |
| 1:00 PM | Session I (continued) |
| 2:20 PM | Coffee break |
| 2:40 PM | Session II |
| 6:00 PM | Workshop ends |
Key Highlights
- Arbitration of banking loans and project finance agreements
- Practical guide to financial-sector arbitral mechanisms
- Fintech and digital payment dispute exposure
- Structuring enforceable arbitration clauses in finance documentation
- Comparative analysis of domestic banking arbitration and international arbitration clauses
Facilitator
Grace Cheng, SFBiam
BIAMC Panel Arbitration Panelist and Senior Fellow, Barrister and Arbitrator at 39 Essex Chambers
Grace is an English barrister, Hong Kong solicitor and member of the Bar of the British Virgin Islands, with rights of audience before the Singapore International Commercial Court, the DIFC Courts (Dubai) and the AIFC Court (Kazakhstan). Ranked as an Arbitrator (International Arbitration) by Chambers and Partners and named a Future Leader in Arbitration by Lexology Index, she combines advocacy at the highest level with fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Grace’s practice centres on complex commercial disputes with an international element, acting for governments, FTSE 100 companies and high-net-worth individuals — including a SIAC arbitration exceeding SGD 400 million for a company ultimately owned by one of the world’s largest financial services groups. A sought-after neutral, she has received more than 80 appointments as arbitrator, adjudicator and expert, in matters administered under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, AIAC and SCCA, spanning the laws of England and Wales, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
A First Class Honours graduate of the LSE with the BCL from the University of Oxford, Grace has taught law at Oxford, King’s College London and universities in Taiwan, and previously worked at Slaughter and May before serving as judicial assistant to the Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court. At “Money Matters”, she brings this rare combination of counsel, arbitrator and educator directly to the workshop room.
Kim M. Rooney, SFBiam
BIAMC Panel Arbitration Panelist and Senior Fellow
International Arbitrator, Hong Kong Barrister and Mediator, Member of Rede Chambers
Kim is a Hong Kong barrister, international arbitrator and mediator practising from Rede Chambers, admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia. She has practised in Hong Kong since July 1990, beginning at Baker & McKenzie before becoming a partner of White & Case LLP, where she headed the firm’s Asian dispute resolution practice until joining the Bar in late 2009. A member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, her standing as a neutral is consistently recognised in Who’s Who Legal Arbitration, which records peers describing her “rigorous intellect” and noting that parties are “left with total confidence” in her command of a case.
Kim’s practice centres on serving as chair, presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator in complex, high-value disputes governed by both civil and common law jurisdictions and international conventions — with particular depth in banking and financial disputes involving private and public companies and regulated institutions, including global banks, alongside matters in aviation, construction and infrastructure, energy, investment and trade, and technology. She sits on the arbitrator panels of leading institutions including the AAA/ICDR, AIAC, CIETAC, HKIAC, JCAA, KCAB International, SIAC and the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation, and is also an HKMAAL and CEDR accredited mediator.
Beyond her arbitral practice, Kim chaired the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission’s Subcommittee on Third Party Funding for Arbitration, co-drafting the legislation that introduced third-party funding of arbitration in Hong Kong, and serves on the Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association as chair of its Arbitration Committee. She is editor of the IBA’s Dispute Resolution International and co-author of ICCA’s Guide to the Interpretation of the 1958 New York Convention: A Handbook for Judges. At the workshop, Kim joins Grace as co-facilitator, bringing decades of experience resolving high-value financial and commercial disputes directly into the room.
