Issue Brief & Networking Reception - December 1
Bloomberg LP: City Gate House 39 - 45 Finsbury Square London
SCHEDULE
4:00-4:30PM Registration/Networking
4:30-6:00PM Program
Welcome: Tom Davin, Managing Director, FISD/SIIA
What's new in the world of Audits and Market Data Compliance?
This panel will explore this sometimes vexing, but ever important subject, with a special emphasis on where we find ourselves at the end of 2010. It will cover the separate aims and objectives of actors involved during an audit: consumers, exchanges, vendors and third parties. Is there a level playing field for audit settlements or is everything negotiable depending on other variables? Are the frequency and size of settlements increasing and if so why, and is there a better way to manage this process? Is there a trend building for Index Vendors and Exchanges to contract directly with consumer firms and how will this impact the audit function?
Moderator: Paul Serjeant, Euro Market Data
Panelists:
Derek Walsh, Manager Market Data Administration and Audit Real Time Data, London Stock Exchange Group
Antoine Meyers, Head of Market Data Competence Center, BNP Paribas
Rory Quinlan, Principal, Exchange Ancillary Services
Stuart Richardson, Head of Compliance, Thomson Reuters
Janet Wigglesworth, Head of Market Data Compliance, UBS AG
Member Presentation: Bloomberg Symbology Initiative
Davina Senderowich, Bloomberg ID and Symbology
Exploring best practices for Evaluated Pricing within the broader context of Valuations
This panel will probe the way ‘Evaluated Pricing' is generated, but will focus much more on how it is assessed and used within the broader context of asset management. The panel will help to shine a light on this occasionally esoteric topic by discussing current best practices for the operational use of this type of data and the lessons learnt through the tumultuous times of the credit crisis just passed. The panel will reveal some of the nuts and bolts of how this sector of the data industry works and will offer insight to those who are expert in this field and at the same time useful education to those less familiar with it.
Moderator: Tine Thoresen, Editor - Inside Reference Data, Incisive Media
Panelists:
Anthony Belcher, Director, European Fixed Income, Interactive Data Corporation
Ian Blance, Head of Evaluated Pricing, Business Development, Six Telekurs
Jon Deighton, Head of Data Administration Strategic Operating Model, BNP Paribas Securities Services
Bruce Manson, Product Manager, BVAL, Bloomberg
Nick Haining, Managing Director, EMEA, Numerix
6:00-8:00PM 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.