Case Zone Programme

Discussion questions:
• The age of high-yield (HY) bonds: how many HY issuers can the market handle?
• Characteristics of HY bond issuers: risk evaluation, transparency
• Individuals form a central portion of the demand for SME bonds: the search for effective risk limitation
• When will institutional investors enter the HY bond market?
• Green bonds: how does a business’s level of social responsibility affect their search for financing?

Not only has the development of various digital platforms in areas like finance, energy, mobility, food, healthcare, and education provided opportunities for creating higher quality products and services and changed investment perceptions – it has also created new opportunities for economic growth.

This session will be held as a discussion between five investment leaders, who will review the trends they have observed on a global scale and the related opportunities that the Russian market ought to consider.

Discussion questions:
• Key investment market events from 2019 and their effects on strategies in 2020
• 2020 forecast: Is there change ahead? Market trends
• How the Russian market compares to international ones (profitability, market volume, number of deals)
• Sources of capital for developing the investment market
• The main risks and challenges in 2020
• Russian IPO: headhunter and 2020 plans
• Russian investment market prospects

The Business Priority Open Acceleration Platform takes on a new role as business architect and integrator: facilitating interactions between corporations and start-ups from start to finish, reducing the amount of labour required in dealmaking, and ameliorating participants’ financial and technological risks. What are the crucial elements of a model for effective cooperation between corporations and the start-up industry?

Participants of this Business Priority project event will discuss the prospects of creating networks of start-ups, accelerators, venture funds, and industry companies.