Reinventing Data and Risk in Operations

FIMA is the meeting place for the very best of the reference data and risk management community. Celebrating its 11th anniversary in 2013, the conference has a solid track record of bringing together over 200 senior data professionals from the major financial institutions in the UK and Western Europe, representing a spending power of over £3bn.

The programme focuses on the most pressing challenges faced by the community: keeping up with new regulatory initiatives, bringing costs down and achieve 100% transparency.

2 days of sessions, panels and interactive roundtables allowing you to:

• Stay on top of the latest regulatory developments: there will be 12 hours of regulatory content, focusing on: Solvency II, Basel III, Dodd Frank, FATCA, AML, MIFID. You will also have the chance to hear directly from the regulators and get first hand information from ESMA, FCA and other regulatory bodies in Europe.
• Mitigate risk: for the first time we are bringing you 2 days of case studies, panel debates and networking sessions focused on the role and impact of data in risk management.
• Find out how (and if!) collaborative data management works: instead of being responsible for all data, let others contribute, edit and take responsibility for data quality.
• Drive costs down through outsourcing: big banks are for the first time seriously looking at offshoring, outsourcing and nearshoring - could these change the way you do business?
• Learn from out-of-industry case studies: we’re bringing pioneering companies like eBay and Google to speak about how they go about data management.

Networking Opportunities: 20h+ of peer-to-peer networking and quality face time.

• Network with your colleagues and clients: there will be over 20 hours of networking time, some of it structured, some informal. Roundtable discussions, topic driven lunches and seminars will form parts of both conference days.
• Develop your business with the decision-makers in the industry: 70%+ of speakers and delegates are at director, head and VP level so you can meet with the people making real decisions and designing enterprise-wide strategies.
• Learn from content tailored to your business by attending private roundtable discussions, organised by industry: these are bespoke conversations specifically for your type of organisation
• Meet the data and risk management community: FIMA is the only industry event where buy-side attendees outnumber solution providers by 2:1
• 1-2-1 meetings with clients and prospects that you are targeting to boost lead generation to ensure measurable ROI

Get to grips with regulation. Regulation is not prescriptive and everyone is feeling their way in the dark. Every single data manager is affected by it and will be looking at advice and platform solutions that enables them to be compliant.

Outsource solutions that enable them to reduce costs. Many big banks have not outsourced their data before and will be looking for solutions in this area. Find out about risk analytics and modeling tools. With data quality being a business imperative, delegates will be looking at new tools that allow them to manage risk and make the most of their data.

Improve data quality by mapping data cleansing solutions in the market. Managing data cleansing programmes on a continuous basis requires lots of internal resource, therefore delegates will be looking at cost effective solutions in this area.

Understand how to best rationalise vendors, ensuring they are buying top quality data. With data costs spiralling out of control, most financial institutions are looking at new types of SLAs and better licensing agreements.