March 1, 2011
New York, NY

Main Conference Day Two - Tuesday March 16

Operational, Risk And Business Issues

8:00 Continental Breakfast, Conference Registration & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone
Continental Breakfast, Conference Registration & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone
8:55 Welcoming Remarks
Welcoming Remarks
Jarrett Spagnoli
Executive Director
FIMA 2010
9:00 Chairperson’s Opening Address
Neil Edelstein, Vice President of Marketing and Product Solutions, GoldenSource
Neil Edelstein joined GoldenSource in 2007 as Vice President of Marketing and Product Solutions. In his role, Neil has extended GoldenSource product line capabilities to reflect buy side investment strategies. He is responsible for GoldenSource Derivative Business Solution, which aggregates all derivative reference, counterparty and collateral information in single platform and thin client application.

Edelstein has more than 30 years experience in the financial services industry, including reference data and pricing expertise. He has previously held roles at Standard & Poors, Interactive Data, Thomson (as President of Muller Data), and SunGard, where he was Managing Director. Edelstein has also worked as an independent consultant for DTCC and Vanguard and has led Accenture's Data Management practice.
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Neil Edelstein
Vice President of Marketing and Product Solutions, GoldenSource

Neil Edelstein joined GoldenSource in 2007 as Vice President of Marketing and Product Solutions. In his role, Neil has extended GoldenSource product line capabilities to reflect buy side investment strategies. He is responsible for GoldenSource Derivative Business Solution, which aggregates all derivative reference, counterparty and collateral information in single platform and thin client applica [read more]
9:15 Optimizing Data Management Through Strategic Alignment Of Business, IT And Operations
Kay Vicino, Senior Vice President, Operations and Technology, Northern Trust
  • Identifying a reference data management “owner”
  • Assessing which business unit deserves greater authority over a given data set
    • Establishing a plan for dealing with conflicts of priority
  • Aligning your organization on a common strategy across departments, functions and geographies
    • Breaking through walls to establish true data governance
    • Getting buy-in one silo at a time
  • Examining steps you can take to enforce data governance across a silo-based organization
  • Understanding how to distribute your data for customized use throughout your organization
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Kay Vicino
Senior Vice President, Operations and Technology, Northern Trust

As Head of Global Data Management since 2007, Kay is responsible for the worldwide shared services operating model for pricing and reference data. The shared services global operating model support's Northern's custody, asset management, fund administration and operations outsourcing businesses. Key responsibilities include not only daily operations but also strategic and transformation initiative [read more]
9:50 Panel Discussion: Exploring The Current State Of Data Management
Amy G. Harkins, Senior Vice President, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, BNY Mellon
John Bottega, Chief Data Officer - Markets Division, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Norman Brower, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Colin Close, President, Netik
The financial industry has been shaken by the credit and mortgage fallout. Behind the scenes, data management executives could have predicted this. So where do we go from here? Right now no one has great, clean data. But it is all about “staying the course”. Being committed, remaining tactical, continuing to build support and educating, internally and externally. This panel takes a look at where we’ve come from and where we should be going.
  • How has the crisis affected data management priorities?
  • Is budget being reallocated? If so, what is being cut?
    • How are you being smart with your resources?
    • How are you reducing expenses but continuing to produce high quality data that satisfies your internal users and your regulatory reporting efforts around exposure?
  • What further scrutiny has come about from the regulatory bodies?
  • Assessing who is really driving data management initiatives
    • Does the risk management side drive data improvement or does the trading (business) side drive improvement?
  • Understanding how data management executives can leverage the credit crises to push an agenda of transparency
  • Examining the evolving role of data governance/stewardship teams
  • Have the expectations for governance bodies expanded to encompass more areas that we not previously considered?
  • Looking at future cost reductions
    • Should you outsource or offshore to reduce expenses?
    • Can you outsource or offshore without increasing risk or reducing your ability to satisfy end users?
Colin Close BA (Hons), President, Netik, is a securities market expert and has spent over 25 years in the financial product discipline with Chase and Bankers Trust and the last 9 years with Netik. Colin has, through his experience in financial markets, successfully lead high profile business improvement initiatives for financial institutions through the creative engineering of people, processes and technology. At Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust, Colin was Managing Director for the Global Investor Services business, where he was responsible for the strategic development for a range of key products serving institutional investors and asset gatherers. Prior to that, Colin spent ten years at Chase Manhattan where he managed, latterly from New York, the strategic planning of service delivery to institutional investor clients.

Amy G. Harkins
Senior Vice President, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, BNY Mellon

Amy G. Harkins is a Senior Vice President at BNY Mellon. Her direct responsibilities are for Worldwide Global Corporate Event Operations, including corporate actions, class actions, and proxy processing for the combined entity. In addition to her operational responsibilities, Amy is involved in the Market Data Committee at BNY Mellon.
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John Bottega
Chief Data Officer - Markets Division, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

John Bottega is Vice President and Chief Data Office for the Markets division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. John joined the Bank in February of 2009, responsible for driving and implementing the Markets Data Management strategy, which encompasses business, governance and technology in order to establish a sustainable business data discipline and technology infrastructure. Prior to joini [read more]
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Norman Brower
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

Norman has 20 years experience in delivering Information Architecture strategies designed to increase straight through processing (STP) and reduce operational risk within the Capital Markets. At Morgan Stanley, he is responsible for defining and implementing solutions to manage Product reference data.
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Colin Close
President, Netik

Colin Close BA (Hons), President, Netik, is a securities market expert and has spent over 25 years in the financial product discipline with Chase and Bankers Trust and the last 9 years with Netik. Colin has, through his experience in financial markets, successfully lead high profile business improvement initiatives for financial institutions through the creative engineering of people, processes an [read more]
10:25 Refreshment Break & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone
Refreshment Break & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone
11:05 Managing Reference Data Throughout The Entire Data Lifecycle
Rick Woodland, VP Basel II Technology, State Street Global Markets
Data is your most important business asset – so why not value, protect and leverage it? The best in the business have a handle on data. They realize that the external data you pull in may be good, but it’s not accurate enough. By building the right infrastructure, and aligning operations, technology and business teams, sophisticated data managers can drive their firms’ innovation. This session highlights improvements that you can make throughout your operation to better leverage your firms’ most critical asset.
  • Leveraging your existing enterprise infrastructure to streamline reference data operations
  • Managing risk and reporting needs to comply with Basel II and upcoming regulations
  • Maintaining accurate and timely reference data in a single data repository
  • Finding ways to provide flexible and customized data sets to various stakeholders across the business
  • Delivering highly personalized reference data feeds improve efficiency
  • Cross referencing multiple industry-standard and market identifiers for a given security
  • Managing specific customer data requirements based on their preferences
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Rick Woodland
VP Basel II Technology, State Street Global Markets

11:40 Morning Roundtable Discussions
Philip Wu, Manager, Data Quality, Enterprise Risk Management, AIG Global Investment Group
Sean Conahan, Vice President, Barclays Capital
Richard Livesley, Head of Governance, Quality and Metadata, BMO Financial
Robert Briggs, VP Investment Data Services, BNY Mellon
Mike Phillips, CMMI Program Manager, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Benson, Executive Director & Chief Technology Officer, Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA)
Bill Nichols, Program Director, Securities Processing Automation, FISD/SIIA
The tables are designed to be a continuation of the day’s content – we’ll break the tables into specific topic areas and every attendee will have the option of sitting in on two of the 10 moderated tables. This will be your opportunity to brainstorm “informally” and find solutions to the challenges you face. All discussion is “off the record”.

Roundtable hosts include:
Table 1: Philip Wu, Manager – Data Quality, Enterprise Risk Management, AIG

Table 2: Bill Nichols, Program Director, Securities Processing Automation, FISD/SIIA

Table 3: Sean Conahan, Vice President, Barclays Capital

Table 4: Peter Benson, Executive Director & Chief Technology Officer, Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA)

Table 5: Richard Livesley, Head of Governance, Quality and Metadata, BMO Financial

Table 6: Mike Phillips, CMMI Program Manager, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Table 7: Karla McKenna, Director, Citi & Chair, ISO TC68

Table 8: Robert Briggs, VP Investment Data Services, BNY Mellon

Table 9: OPEN*

Table 10: OPEN*

Roundtable participants include:
Kim Wolfe, Global Head of Reference Data, Barclays Capital Guy McDonald, AVP Data Management, Nomura Securities Jonathan Weiner, Vice President, Technology, Morgan Stanley And many more!

Table Themes Include (but are not limited to):
  • Identifying Key Ways To Measure Bad Data And Revenue Lost In Order To Fund Future Data Quality Projects
  • Buy-Side Roundtable: Exploring Buy-Side EDM Challenges
  • Understanding The Benefits Of The Standardization Of Corporate Actions Information
  • Examining The Impact Of Solvency II Requirements
  • Leveraging Your Basel II Compliance Program To Drive Data Initiatives
  • Strategies For Collecting And Maintaining Global Legal Entity Data That Meets Your Risk And Compliance Standards
  • Next Steps For The Options Symbology Initiative
  • EDM And The Roadmap Ahead
  • Integrating Data Across A Global Organization
  • Hedge Fund Roundtable: Exploring Alternative Data Models
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Philip Wu
Manager, Data Quality, Enterprise Risk Management, AIG Global Investment Group

Philip S. Wu is a Manager in charge of Data Quality in American International Group's Corporate Enterprise Risk Management group. He has served the financial services industry for more than twenty-three years managing global data management teams in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has successfully delivered business driven data/technical solutions from both the vendor sourcing and end-user inves [read more]
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Sean Conahan
Vice President, Barclays Capital

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Richard Livesley
Head of Governance, Quality and Metadata, BMO Financial

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Robert Briggs
VP Investment Data Services, BNY Mellon

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Mike Phillips
CMMI Program Manager, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Mike Phillips is the Program Manager for CMMI at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a position created to lead the Capability Maturity Model* Integration [CMMI®] product suite evolution for the SEI. He has authored Technical Reports, Technical Notes, CMMI Columns, and various articles in addition to presenting CMMI material at conferences around the world. He is a co-author of the recently [read more]
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Peter Benson
Executive Director & Chief Technology Officer, Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA)

Mr. Peter Benson is the Executive Director and Chief Technical Officer of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA). Peter is an expert in distributed information systems, content encoding and master data management. Peter designed and oversaw the development of a number of strategic distributed database management systems used extensively in the UK and US by the Public Relations [read more]
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Bill Nichols
Program Director, Securities Processing Automation, FISD/SIIA

12:35 Lunch For All Attendees
Lunch For All Attendees
5:00 FIMA 2010 Networking Cocktail Party
After a day filled with constructive discussion, case studies and critical information for your data management operations, RELAX, UNWIND and make new friends and contacts at the Networking Cocktail Party! Take advantage of this opportunity to network with the industry’s brightest and most forward thinking leaders in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

Bring plenty of business cards and expand your reference data network!