06 - 07 November, 2013
QEII Conference Centre, London

Cost Cutting Focus Day

November 20th, 2012



Cost Cutting Day – a day designed to give you the strategies to save you money! Attend and you will:

  • Optimize sourcing and vendor management. Rethink your supply chain and information use.
  • Enhance support processes. Improve the management and use of data by different users in your business
  • Optimize overhead and performance management. Sharpen your knowledge of user types and their data use patterns
  • Use outsourcing only when it is delivering great results at minimal risk
  • Link data management to P&L – show the money
  • Use quick fixes when you can – don’t always think strategically
  • Make targeted IT investments – work to improve within your budget
8:30 Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
9:00 Chair’s Welcome Address
Welcome Remarks
9:30 Overview of the impact of global regulatory change on financial reference data community: principles and practical realities
Overview of the impact of global regulatory change on financial reference data community: principles and practical realities
10:00 Case Study From J.P.Morgan
Case Study From J.P.Morgan
10:30 Optimising costs and showing value in your business P&L – data management perspective
Olivier Rose, International Projects & Data Management, Societe Generale
Optimising costs and showing value in your business P&L – data management perspective
Olivier Rose

Olivier Rose
International Projects & Data Management, Societe Generale

11:00 Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
11:30 Comparing experiences different organisations
Comparing experiences different organisations
12:00 Innovative ideas for cost savings: focus on results
Innovative ideas for cost savings: focus on results
12:30 Panel Discussion: Getting your cost cutting right – challenges, mistakes to avoid and how to best measure results
Vinod Rajasimha, Senior Market Data Vendor Manager, ING Investment Management
Olivier Rose, International Projects & Data Management, Societe Generale
Lorraine Waters, Founder, DMCS
Panel Discussion: Getting your cost cutting right – challenges, mistakes to avoid and how to best measure results
Vinod Rajasimha

Vinod Rajasimha
Senior Market Data Vendor Manager, ING Investment Management

Vinod joined ING Investment Management two years ago as a Senior Market Data Vendor Manager. Vinod was previously at Macquarie Bank, London for 2 and half years where he was doing the commercial management of market data for EMEA region. Before then he was a Market data analyst at Macquarie bank in Sydney for 3 years. Before moving into Market data world, he has been working in Finance for over 7 [read more]
Olivier Rose

Olivier Rose
International Projects & Data Management, Societe Generale

Lorraine Waters

Lorraine Waters
Founder, DMCS

Lorraine has over 25 years experience in Investment Banking Operations, Strategy, Business Management, Shared Services and Change and for the last 6 years she has combined all of this experience in her role as Global Head of Reference Data Management at a top-tier, global investment bank. Her major achievements include:
  • Leading a large global, multi-disciplined, multi-location team of up t [read more]
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
14:00 Case Study From UBS
David Berry, Market Data, Global Sourcing, UBS
Case Study From UBS
David Berry

David Berry
Market Data, Global Sourcing, UBS

14:30 Practical Experience : Case Study examples of RTB Cost Optimisation
Sally Hinds, Founder, DMCS
Lorraine Waters, Founder, DMCS
Practical Experience : Case Study examples of RTB Cost Optimisation
Sally Hinds

Sally Hinds
Founder, DMCS

Sally has worked for over 25 years in the enterprise data management space, for financial institutions, consultancy firms and for major vendors. Her major successes include:
  • Establishment of a centralised shared service data organization encompassing both technology and operations for a major Tier 1 investment bank, providing high quality service to the global organization, for both market [read more]
Lorraine Waters

Lorraine Waters
Founder, DMCS

Lorraine has over 25 years experience in Investment Banking Operations, Strategy, Business Management, Shared Services and Change and for the last 6 years she has combined all of this experience in her role as Global Head of Reference Data Management at a top-tier, global investment bank. Her major achievements include:
  • Leading a large global, multi-disciplined, multi-location team of up t [read more]
15:00 Afternoon Coffee
Afternoon Coffee
15:30 Case Study From Citi
Andrew Lewin, Business Analyst, Citigroup
Case Study From Citi
Andrew Lewin

Andrew Lewin
Business Analyst, Citigroup

Andrew Lewin is head of Non-Global Markets, Market Data, Expense Management EMEA at Citi. Andrew Joined Citi in 2010 where he has run cost saving initiatives within the Market Data and Reference Data arena. Previously Andrew worked at Credit Suisse where he was global lead for Index and ETF Market Data and EMEA lead for Reference data. Andrew has worked on both the buy-side and sell-side in the fi [read more]
16:00 Wrap Up, Conclusions and What You Can Implement Tomorrow
Wrap Up, Conclusions and What You Can Implement Tomorrow
16:10 End of Day
End of Day
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