FISD Local Meeting & Networking Reception in Toronto
May 20, 2010
FISD along with host SIX Telekurs was pleased to provide the Canadian financial information community an opportunity to meet, network and share ideas.
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3:30 - 6:00
Welcome & Operations Report
Tom Davin, Managing Director, FISD/SIIA
Member Briefing: The Increasing Importance of Transparent Evaluations
Perry Beaumont, Head of Evaluated Pricing Research & Operations, SIX Telekurs
Member Roundtable: Recent Developments of Inventory Control, Usage Tracking and Reporting Systems
Moderator: Nick Merritt, Program Director, FISD/SIIA
Panelists:
Brad Firminger, Director, Customer Relations, MDSL
Dave Hill, Vice President Sales Canada, Thomson Reuters
Michael McCrea, Senior Manager, TSX Datalinx Services, TMX Group
Alex Tait, Director, Market Data Solutions & Control, RBC
Member Briefing: Bloomberg Open Source Symbology- BSYM
Peter Warms, Manager of Mutual Funds, Bloomberg
Member Briefing: The Changing Face of Wealth Management Technology
Matthew Spedden, Vice President Wealth Management, Interactive Data Corporation
FISD Update: Business Issues Update
Nick Merritt, Program Director, FISD/SIIA
6:00 - 7:30 Networking Reception
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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