General Meeting & Holiday Party - December 16
Location:
Eleven Madison Avenue New York (General Meeting - 2pm - 6pm)
One Madison Avenue (Holiday Party - 6pm - 8pm)
SCHEDULE
12:00 - 2:00 pm Constituency Group Meetings (Brown bag): The FISD constituency group sessions provide a unique opportunity to candidly address market data business issues and practices with your colleagues from firms in your same industry segment.
2:00 - 2:30 pm Registration / Networking
2:30 pm - 6:00 pm Program
Welcome & Operations Report: Tom Davin, Managing Director, FISD/SIIA
Keynote: Travels In Currency War Zones: The real world impact of misaligned exchange rates, quantitative easing, and a mountain of Western debt
Michael Casey, Managing Editor, Money, Dow Jones Newswires, Contributing to the Wall Street Journal
Former columnist on global financial affairs for Dow Jones and wsj.com, and prior to that was Dow Jones' bureau chief in Argentina. He is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and a regular guest on the WSJ News Hub web show, as well as on Fox Business and other affiliated media outlets.
Panel Discussion: International Night - Foreign Exchanges
This session provides a closer examination of several leading exchanges with significant operations outside of the U.S. Representatives from these exchanges will provide brief updates on recent changes and developments within their markets and will discuss how these developments and their own current market data environments compare and contrast with what those in the U.S.
Moderator:
Peter Clifford, Deputy Secretary, World Federation of Exchanges
Participants:
Richard Carleton, VP Corporate Development, CNSX Markets Inc.
Georg Gross, Director, Head of Front Office Data Analytics, Deutsche Boerse AG
Marcelo Gualda, Director, BM&FBOVESPA
Colin Clark, Senior Vice President, NYSE Euronext
Panel Discussion: A Day in the Life - The End-User Perspective
Although no two days are the same, Market Data managers within end-user firms have a sizable number of job responsibilities and relationships they deal with on a regular basis. This panel presents the unique perspectives from several of these managers who provide insight on detailing their organizational structure, staff recruitment and development, their myriad relationships with internal and external constituents, and decisions regarding outsourcing.
Moderator:
Barry Raskin, President, SIX Telekurs USA, Ltd.
Panelists:
Lila Gordem, Vice President, Credit Suisse
Manny Pandya, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
Steve Hansen, VP Global Services Technology, Societe Generale
Ludwig D'Angelo, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase
5:30pm FISD Staff Updates --
Tom Davin
Nick Merritt
Service Level & Communications Working Group
Presentation of the 2010 'Outstanding Data Provider' Award
Susan Mannix - Thomson Reuters
Sara Banerjee - SIX Telekurs
6:00pm - 8:00 pm Holiday Party One Madison Avenue, New York
The party will include a full bar, a robust menu and a festive atmosphere
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.
