FIMA Asia
September 16th-17th, 2008

FIMA focuses on the challenges of acquiring, cleansing and maintaining the securities and entity data that is essential to your operation.

Data is your building block for risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency and revenue generation. For over 5 years, the FIMA conference has brought North America & the United Kingdom strategies that will allow data management executives to measure the quality of their data, understand how to improve their internal processes, ensure data consistency across their enterprise, and deal with market challenges.

Here’s some of the issues we’ll be tackling at FIMA: Asia 2008…

• Developing An Integrated Data Management Operation That Will Immediately Improve Data Transparency
  
• Transforming Your Data Infrastructure From Silo-Based Disparate Master Files Into A Single, Enterprise-Wide Data Source
  
• Examining Methods For Accurately And Precisely Cross-Referencing Data Received From Multiple Sources
  
• Examining How To Effectively Measure Data Quality
  
• Maintaining High Quality Data From External Sources
  
• Establishing Processes To Drive Data Management Change And Improve Your Operational Infrastructure
  
• Creating An Effective Plan For Gaining Senior Management Buy-In For Reference Data Projects
  
• Making The Transition From The Concept Of Governance To The Reality Of Governance
  
• Developing An Effective Global Data Management Initiative
  
• Evaluating The Critical Issues Associated With Reference Data Integration
  
• Streamlining Your End-To-End Trade Lifecycle By Efficiently Managing Your Product Identifiers
  

Key speakers already confirmed for FIMA: Asia this September include:

• Credit-Suisse (Singapore): Andrew Nicholson, Global Head of Reference Data & Reconciliations
• DBS (Singapore): Philip Fernandez, Managing Director
  
• HSBC (Hong Kong): Dorraine Dempsey, Global Head of Business Liaison & Vendor Management, Enterprise Data Management
• EDM Council (USA): Mike Atkin, Managing Director
  
• Citi (United Kingdom): Julia Sutton, Global Head of Customer Accounts Operations
  
• Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): David Miller, Director, Credit Systems
  
• Morgan Stanley (Japan): John Sproat, Executive Director
  
• National Australia Bank (Australia): Christopher Butler, Project Director – Data Management, Basel II Data & Reporting
  
• Barclays Capital (Singapore): Andrew Clay, Director, Operations
  
• Barclays Capital (Singapore): Robert Ball, Director
  
• Citi (Hong Kong): Cindy Chu, Manager – Asia, Global Data Services, Citi Investment Research
  
• Macquarie Bank (Australia): Gillian Lunney, Division Director
• Bear Stearns (Japan): Ahmet Yetis, Managing Director
  
• RBS (Singapore): Richard Houghton, Global Head of Business Development

Speaking Opportunities - For Banks Only:
Are you responsible for Instrument/Securities and/or Client/Counterparty Data Management within your firm? If so, contact Jarrett Spagnoli at +1-212-885-2794 or email him at jspagnoli@wbresearch.com.

Solution Provider Speaking Opportunities, Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities:
Ariel Borkowsky, +1-212-885-2796 or email her at aborkowsky@wbresearch.com.