Issue Brief & Reception - February 2010
February 18
Hosted by CME Group
One North End Avenue, New York
REGISTER ONLINE | REGISTERED ATTENDEES
SCHEDULE / PROGRAM
4:00PM-4:30PM Registration/Networking
4:30PM-6:00PM Program
Panel Discussion: Indexes: New Developments & Challenges - As indices and indexing play an increasingly important role in securities markets, vendors and their clients are focusing more attention on the sourcing and usage of index information. This FISD panel session will examine the recent developments in the creation and distribution of index information from the perspectives of index sponsors, data vendors, and financial institutions. We will discuss the trends that lead to a proliferation of new indices, current hot issues related to indexing, and the licensing challenges faced by sponsors, distributors, and clients.
Moderator:
Ronnee Ades, Data Solutions, Bloomberg L.P.
Panelists:
David M. Blitzer, Ph.D., Managing Director & Chairman of the Index Committee, S&P Indices
Steve Ellenberg, Global Index Licensing Coordinator, Credit Suisse
Rosanna Grimaldi, Director Business Development, STOXX Limited
David Krein, Senior Director of Institutional Markets, Dow Jones Indexes
Panel Discussion: The Practicalities and Realities of Working with Business Entity Data -With the urgent need to better identify and monitor risk associated with counterparties and related issuers, business entity data has emerged as a key requirement in today's operating environment. However, many firms are only beginning to get a full grasp of how business entity data can be applied to extend risk management capabilities. With experts from suppliers, integrators, and business users represented, this panel will provide an in-depth look at this complex data type and explore how it can be deployed to address some of today's most pressing information needs not only to risk management, but also to service applications across the organization.
Panelists:
Marc Alvarez, Senior Director, Reference Data Infrastructure, Interactive Data Corporation
Domenic Iannaccone, Director Business Development - Financial Services Industry, Sybase
Bill Fritz, Senior Product Director, D&B Enterprise Risk & Compliance Solutions
6:00PM-7:30PM Networking Reception
FISD members attend at no charge, however, pre-registration is required.
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: As a leader in its field, SIX Telekurs specializes in the procuring, processing and distributing international financial information. Financial market specialists at SIX Telekurs gather information from all the world's major trading venues - directly and in real-time. The SIX Telekurs database with its structured and encoded securities administration data for more than 5.7 million financial instruments is unique in terms of its depth of information and data coverage. With offices in 23 countries, SIX Telekurs combines the advantages of global presence and local know-how. SIX Telekurs is a SIX Group company. On a global scale, SIX Group offers first-rate services in the areas of securities trading, clearing and settlement, as well as financial market information and payment transactions.
Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's provides data solutions designed to enhance a wide variety of front-middle-and back office functions. Services include global securities identification and cross-referencing, comprehensive reference data matching, securities pricing, credit ratings and research and fundamental company information. Encompassing both Web-based products and direct feeds that integrate Standard & Poor's data into a company's internal systems, these solutions help organizations with STP, clearance and settlement, compliance and risk management and data management.
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