International Reinsurance Congress to be held in Bermuda between October 20 and 23.

The conference is designed to provide reinsurance professionals, accountants, lawyers, regulators and others with the latest developments in reinsurance.

Overseas speakers will include Mr. John T. Baily, partner and chairman of insurance industry practice, Coopers & Lybrand, Connecticut; Mr. Ian Dilks, partner of Coopers & Lybrand, London; Mr. Steven Gilford, partner of Mayer Brown & Platt in the US; Mr. Philip Singer, partner of Coopers & Lybrand and head of insurance industry insolvency of Cork Gully, London; and Mr. John Hyland, vice president/claims of General Reinsurance.

Local speakers taking part include Registrar of Companies Mr. Malcolm Butterfield, Mr. Roger Gillett, senior vice president, Johnson & Higgins (Bermuda); and Mr. David Lines, partner in Coopers & Lybrand, Bermuda.

Sessions will be held on "Changes in the Regulatory Environment'', "Changes in the Commercial Environment'', "Current Products and Management Issues'', "Legal Issues'' and "Insolvency.'' Topics they will cover include: The Feds are coming! US regulatory changes.

Lloyd's -- wrecked or recovering? UK, EC and Bermudian regulatory developments.

US and European market reports.

What do FASB 105 and FASB 113 mean to you? Fronting and captives.

What future for financial reinsurance? Catastrophe and environmental cover.

Cutting legal costs.

Current legal problems.

Commutations and run off.

Do schemes of arrangement work.

Insolvency -- are we over the worst.