Loan Operations Conference, 10 July 2025

Loan Operations Conference, 10 July 2025
Cavendish Venues - The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AG
Gearing Up for Change
The loan market can only improve on efficiency and reach its common goals with all business partners interlocking and moving in a unified direction.
Join us at the LMA Loan Operations Conference 2025 for an exciting day, covering an in-depth exploration of the challenges shaping loan operations today. As operations teams navigate an evolving landscape, collaboration and respect for your business partners is key. Each function within operations (and beyond) is mutually dependent on the others for individual, institutional, and market-wide success.
The event will be held at Cavendish Venues - The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, Billingsgate, London, EC3R 7AG.
Registration will open at 8AM along side a networking breakfast, and the Conference will commence promptly at 9AM. The sessions will finish at 5PM and will be followed by a drinks reception open to all attendees, speakers, and sponsors.
New for 2025 – Afternoon Training for Juniors
In addition to the main stage, this year’s conference will feature a dedicated breakout room in the afternoon, focused on training. This session is tailored to provide quality content for junior colleagues or those who may benefit from a refresher. The smaller, more interactive format will offer participants the chance to engage directly with industry professionals in a focused learning environment.
If any of your junior colleagues are interested in joining hte afternoon training, they can register via Afternoon Training - Loan Operations Conference, 10 July 2025 :: LMA (One place per firm.) Please note, there are limited places available, and places are allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Why Attend?
This conference brings together seniors from across the industry to share valuable insights and strategies for thriving in today’s loan markets. By connecting with peers, and subject matter experts you will gain first-hand perspectives on market developments, collaborate on the trends, and discuss challenges shaping European loan operations.
Together, we can drive progress and align for the future.
How to Register:
This event is free of charge, and open to LMA members and selected non-members by invite only.
- LMA members will first need to have logged on using their individual username and password in order to register. If you do not have a username and password, click here to create one. If you have forgotten your password, click here.
- Invited non-members will need to follow the link provided in their invitation email to register or contact registration.lmaevents@lma.eu.com to request a new link.
Please note:
Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to member quotas, which vary by event depending on popularity and venue capacity. This is to ensure we give all member organisations the opportunity to be represented at the event.
Quotas for this event are as follows:
Full members: 4 places
Associate members: 3 places
Press Policy:
Speakers and attendees should note that media representatives may be in attendance. However, no coverage will be published without prior consent and approval.
Media representatives should review the LMA press policy carefully. If you have any questions or specific press inquiries, please contact Leyla Ghaffar-Zadeh at leyla.ghaffar-zadeh@lma.eu.com.
Cancellation Policy:
This is an extremely popular event which attracts a long waiting list. You can cancel your attendance by 5.00 pm (UK time) on 3 July 2025, emailing registration.lmaevents@lma.eu.com. Failure to notify us or cancelling after this date, will result in your place being forfeited at the conference next year.
Data Protection and Consent Notice:
By registering for this event, you consent to the collection and storage of your personal data by the Loan Market Association (LMA). Your data will be used for managing your registration and participation in this event, as well as for sending you relevant marketing communications and updates in the future. The LMA will handle your data in accordance with their respective privacy policies.
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Who can attend: Members Only
Price: Free Event
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Contact Email: registration.lmaevents@lma.eu.com
Loan Operations Conference, 10 July 2025
Cavendish Venues - The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AG
Opening remarks by the LMA CEO outlining goals and aspirations of the LMA, setting the pace for the day ahead.
A current view of the market metrics (settlement times) as provided by both LMA and S&P (Clear par). Speakers will look back at “challenging the timeline” and discuss some of the difficulties over the last year. Speakers will take a detailed look through the metrics and identify where the market has moved forward and discuss areas for improvement and seek out opportunities for a more efficient market.
A discussion on why the transfer provisions and the transfer mechanism are an integral part of the lifecycle of a trade. Why is this so important to get this right, and what can be done to smooth the process and drive efficiency. Understand and appreciate the perspectives of both the Agent banks and the Lenders.
A brief overview of two key LMA/market initiatives for 2025 and beyond. An update of the secondary fault based delayed compensation proposal and evolution of the guidance on fault based primary delayed compensation.
Loan Operations Conference, 10 July 2025
Cavendish Venues - The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AG
Lead Sponsor
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence
Lead Sponsor
FIS is a financial technology company providing solutions to financial institutions, businesses and developers. We unlock financial technology that underpins the world’s financial system. Our people are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests, by helping our clients confidently run, grow and protect their businesses. Our expertise comes from decades of experience helping financial institutions and businesses adapt to meet the needs of their customers by harnessing the power that comes when reliability meets innovation in financial technology. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit FISglobal.com. Follow FIS on LinkedIn, Facebook and X (@FISglobal).
Technology Sponsor
Oneiro (‘dream’) was founded to see change through the expert leveraging of next generation technology. We are specialists in corporate & commercial lending; complex syndicated, agency & bilateral lending; and enterprise software development. Many of our customers are already live and experiencing the competitive power of DLX, our cloud-native loan management platform. DLX removes the separation between parties (and front and back-office teams) and empowers all financial institutions – no matter their size – to innovate, scale, and grow revenue while lowering operational costs and total cost of ownership.
https://www.oneirosolutions.com
Networking Sponsor
The financial services industry relies on CGS’ unrivaled experience in uniquely identifying instruments and entities to support efficient global capital markets. Its extensive focus on standardization over the past 50 years has helped CGS earn its reputation as a trusted originator of quality identifiers and descriptive data, ensuring that essential front- and back-office functions run smoothly. CGS is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association (ABA) by FactSet Research Systems Inc., with a Board of Trustees that represents the voices of leading financial institutions. For more information, visit www.cusip.com.
https://www.cusip.com/index.html
Cocktail Sponsor
SRS Acquiom delivers the smartest way to run a deal™ with solutions that reduce the administrative burden throughout the entire deal lifecycle. Our services include paying and escrow agent services, online document solicitation and reporting, professional shareholder representation, and virtual data rooms. For loan and credit transactions, we provide independent administrative, collateral, and sub-agent services. Since 2007, we have helped sophisticated deal parties reduce administrative drag, enabling them to focus on building great businesses and maximizing value.
Exhibitor
vc trade, based in Frankfurt and London, is the largest and fastest-growing loan platform fully dedicated to the syndicated loan and Schuldscheindarlehen (SSD) market. As the central marketplace and infrastructure for debt transactions, vc trade has already facilitated the financing of more than €62 billion.
With a market share of over 70% in the SSD/promissory note segment, vc trade offers an end-to-end value chain, from syndication, native digital document creation and negotiation to legally binding execution. This includes agency services such as automated settlement, lifecycle management, calculations, and the preparation and supervision of payments.
Over the past year, vc trade has supported more than 1,400 lenders including Europe’s leading arrangers in the SSD and syndicated loan market. It has also successfully migrated portfolios for leading agencies.
https://www.vc-trade.de/welcome/
Exhibitor
Alfa has been delivering leading-edge technology to the global asset finance and leasing industry since 1990 and is now powering commercial lending.
Alfa Systems, our class-leading SaaS platform, is at the heart of some of the world's largest and most progressive finance operations. Alfa Systems is proven at volume and across borders, and trusted by leading brands to manage complex portfolios, drive efficiency and sustainability, and enhance the customer experience.
With full functionality for originations, servicing and collections, Alfa Systems is live in 37 countries, representing an integrated point solution, a rapid off-the-shelf implementation, or an end-to-end platform for the complex global enterprise. Alfa Systems 6, a breakthrough iteration of our software platform, was launched in 2024.
Our specialised expertise enables us to deliver the most challenging systems transformation projects successfully. Alfa maintains exceptional customer satisfaction through an impeccable track record, with our experience and performance unrivalled in the industry. Our customers stick with us for the long term, because we deliver value that lasts for decades.
Alfa has offices all over Europe, Australasia and the Americas. For more information, visit us at alfasystems.com or on LinkedIn.
(Our LinkedIn page is at https://www.linkedin.com/company/alfasystems)