General Meeting & Holiday Party - December 2009
December 16
Hosted by Credit Suisse, 11 Madison Avenue New York (General Meeting) / One Madison Avenue (Holiday Party)
REGISTERED ATTENDEES
SCHEDULE / PROGRAM
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Constituency Group Meetings
1:30 pm General Meeting Program
Welcome and Operations Report, Tom Davin, Managing Director, FISD/SIIA
FISD Professional Certification Program, Tom Davin, Managing Director, FISD/SIIA
Keynote: Regulation, Legislation & Trading: Thoughts & Impacts of a New Regulatory Framework
Larry Tabb, CEO, The Tabb Group
New EU Credit Ratings Rules: This session will examine the new EU rules for the handling of credit ratings for structured products (3642/09). Speakers will address the substance of the new regulations and how credit ratings agencies will respond to them.
David Teicher, Managing Director, Moody’s Investors Service
Member Roundtable: Industry participants will discuss recent regulatory activity effecting risk management and the industry’s response. Calls for more regulation and transparency are raising the profile and importance of data management in the risk management process. Risk management disciplines are being challenged to adapt to real-time demands and create metrics in an area notoriously difficult to measure. This session will examine the rapidly changing environment and the tools and techniques that are being used to address it.
Moderator:
Jamie Farmer, Senior Director, Global Index Operations/Head of Exchange Relationships, Dow Jones Indexes
Panelists:
Paul S. Atkins, Managing Director – Patomak Partners LLC
Richard H. Hulit, Jr., Executive Vice President, SunGard
Barry Raskin, President, SIX Telekurs USA Inc.
Marty Williams, VP, Reference Data Product Development, Interactive Data Corporation
Member Roundtable: Members participate in a discussion focused on recent
developments and the current status of Inventory Control, Usage Tracking and Reporting Systems.
Moderator:
Ludwig D’Angelo, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase
Panelists:
Sharla Carey, Vice President, Morgan Stanley
Bradley Firminger, Director - Customer Relations, Market Data Services Ltd.
Aaron Garforth, Market Data Manager with London Stock Exchange
Ed Koval, Product Manager, DACS/Open DACS, Thomson Reuters
Rob Leitner, President, The Roberts Group
Business Issues Briefing, Nick Merritt, Program Director, FISD/SIIA
Service Level and Communications Award Recognition: The Service Level and Communications Working Group recognizes an exchange that has closely adhered to the Group’s suggested recommendations regarding notification and communication with customers and downstream users of market data.
5:30 – 7:30 pm Holiday Party One Madison Avenue, New York
The party will include a full bar, a robust menu and a festive atmosphere.
REGISTER: FISD members $50; non-FISD members $500 USD, non-FISD members Holiday Party only $175 USD. Pre-registration for all is required.
We are grateful to our Global Sponsors for supporting the FISD 2009 Event Schedule:
Dow Jones Indexes: is a leading provider of market indexes, which it licenses for use as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes and provides a number of innovative measures for alternative asset classes, including hedge funds, commodities and energy. Dow Jones Indexes is a unit of Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com), a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com).
Interactive Data: (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder.
For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visitwww.interactivedata.com
SIX Telekurs:Since 1930, SIX Telekurs has been the world's best source of global securities information. Today, we deliver uniquely structured and encoded reference data, corporate actions/events, real-time market data and flexible portfolio-based pricing. Our database is distinguished for coverage, with nearly 4 million global securities as well as for depth, with approximately 850 sources. Our analysts and programmers in 23 countries provide local market expertise, control direct data inputs, ensure uniform global quality and deliver world-class service.
| ||||
