Issue Brief & Reception - September 29, 2010
Citi: 388 Greenwich Street - 26th floor, New York
ATTENDEES
SCHEDULE
4:00-4:30PM Registration/Networking
4:30-6:00PM Program
Panel Discussion: Financial Reform Bill: Friend or Foe?
The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill has now been passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. This session will provide insight on the details and consequences of this landmark legislation on financial data, examining new requirements placed on FISD member firms in areas like data retention, reporting and the impact on credit ratings data. We’ll also discuss the status and implications of the Office of Financial Research and what benefits it might provide.
Moderator:
Srini Giridhar, Banking Lead, IBM
Panelists:
Tony Brownlee, Principal, Kingland Systems
Steve Lachaga, Director, Credit Suisse
Jonathan Thursby – Associate Director of Information Products, CME Group
Marty Williams, VP, Reference Data Product Development, Interactive Data
FISD Staff Updates:
*Professional Certification program – Completion of Early Adopter Program and next steps for Financial Information Associate certification
*Service Level & Communications Working Group
*Business Issues Policy and Practice Standards (BIPPS)
*Anti-Piracy Working Group
Member Update: "Briefing from the Standards World" – Bill Nichols, Principal, r-cube
- Latest developments in ISO standards – ISIN, Business Entity Identifier, ISO 20022
- Report on annual ISO TC68/SC4 meeting in Tokyo
- Standards Coordinating Group – recent discussions with U.S. regulators and policy makers
- Implications of financial services reform bill on data standard
6:00-7:30PM Networking Reception
Dow Jones Indexes: Dow Jones Indexes is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones Indexes employs clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of CME Group Index Services LLC, a joint venture company which is owned 90 percent by CME Group Inc. and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation company. 
Interactive Data: Interactive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data’s offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. Interactive Data is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and has over 2,400 employees in offices worldwide..
For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.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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