Full Agenda

8.20 Registration and breakfast
8.50 Welcome remarks,

Lee Hartt, Publisher, INSIDE MARKET DATA & INSIDE REFERENCE DATA

9.00 Keynote presentation

Dr. Peter Warburton, Director of Economic Perspectives, Ltd & Member of the Shadow Monetary Policy Commitee

Stream 1: Inside Market Data

Stream 2: Inside Reference Data

9.30 Chairperson's opening remarks: Max Bowie, Editor, INSIDE MARKET DATA

9.30 Chairperson's opening remarks: Tine Thoresen, Editor, INSIDE REFERENCE DATA

9.35 End-user panel:Testing times: Getting the most out of your data budgets

  • Strategies for meeting user demand while reducing spend in multiple different areas of the business
  • Managing changing data usage policies from exchanges and vendors
  • Profiling data consumers and usage patterns to eliminate under-utilized services; the legal and practical challenges in Europe
  • Evaluating the response to Germany’s ruling on index licensing
  • Can firms utilize freely available data to derive real value?

Moderator: Kiou Nayer Nouri, Global Head of Market Data Vendor Management, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Russ Goring, Global head of Market Data, BARCLAYS CAPITAL & BARCLAYS WEALTH
John Madsen, Head of Market Data, SAXO BANK
Antoine Meyer, Head of Global Business Support, BNP PARIBAS FORTIS
Martin Wilson, Market Data Consultant, NOMURA INTERNATIONAL

9.35 End-user panel: Data governance: Staying on top as data governance programmes mature

  • Components of a data governance program tailored to essential risk-reduction
  • Enabling compliance: are you in the loop?
  • Changing market dynamics: introducing and adapting new frameworks
  • Identifying cost efficiency processes to improve data governance

Moderator: Andre Kelekis, Head of Market Data Projects, BNP PARIBAS
Michael McMorrow, Enterprise Data Warehouse Designer, ALLIED IRISH BANK
Meredith Gibson, Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel

10.20 Morning break

10.50 Case study
Russ Goring
Global Head of Market Data
BARCLAYS CAPITAL & BARCLAYS WEALTH

10.50 Case Study
Tom Dalglish
Executive Director, Enterprise Reference Data
JP MORGAN

11.20 Panel: Exchanges: Fighting back against the MTF onslaught

  • How are exchanges continuing to add value and differentiating their service offering?
  • What are data consumers paying for: price information or price formation?
  • How are exchanges fulfilling demand for historical tick data?
  • Is a pan-European future for exchanges inevitable?

Moderator: Rafah Hanna, Executive Director, Head of MTS Data, EURO MTS
George Andreadis, Head of AES Liquidity Strategy Europe, CREDIT SUISSE
Andre Kelekis, Head of Market Data Projects, BNP PARIBAS
Kunal Nandwani, Electronic Trading Project Management, NOMURA

11.20 Panel: Evaluated prices

  • The growing demand for evaluated prices with a renewed focus on risk
  • Are vendors adequately prepared to meet this demand?
  • How best can vendors continue to improve their services: should they avoid pricing too complex instruments?
  • Precautions vendors should take to make sure there is a full understanding of the product being priced
  • How can firms best help mitigate valutation risk?

Moderator: Tine Thoresen, Editor, INSIDE REFERENCE DATA
Graeme Austin, Director, Product Management, XTRAKTER
David Berry, Data Sourcing Specialist, UBS
Dominique Tanner, Head of Business Development, SIX TELEKURS

12.05 Panel: Architecture optimization: Developing capacity to handle huge volumes

  • Has volume growth in Europe lived up to predictions?
  • What are the drivers behind the changes?
  • How are firms, vendors and exchanges coping and adapting?
  • Initiatives to succeed: co-location, hosted feed services and hosting data platforms such as RDMS
  • Optimization of client-site technologies for reducing bottlenecks
  • Managing speed and throughput

Moderator: Ken Mcleish, Head of Equity, Arbitrage & Algorithmic Trading Technology, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Gangadhar Darbha, Product Manager, Algorithmic Trading, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Philip Enness, Global Solutions Manager, IBM

12.05 Panel: Will Integrated Data Management be driven by risk?

  • As risk and compliance become key drivers for data management projects, where is your firm benchmarked?
  • Why are risk units increasingly becoming sponsors of enterprise risk management projects?
  • How can Integrated Data Management strategies help firms reduce risk?
  • Industry challenges are bigger than ever – but appetite and funding for big projects is smaller than ever. How can data management projects capitalise on big picture political and regulatory drivers?
  • How can individuals and firms move forward with tactical and pragmatic programs against the background of a holistic and ambitious data agenda?

Moderator: Mike Atkin, Managing Director, EDM COUNCIL
Tom Dalglish, Executive Director, Enterprise Reference Data, JP MORGAN
Bala Nayar, Finance Business Architecture & Standards, CITIGROUP
Gert Raeves, SVP Strategic Business Development & Marketing,GOLDENSOURCE
Jean Williams, Business Product Owner, ASSET CONTROL

12.50 Lunch

14.00 Case Study
John Madsen
Head of Market Data
Saxo Bank

14.00 Case study
Barry Adams
AVP, Corporate Actions
BNY MELLON

14.30 Panel: New content and capabilities: The right combination of news, research, ratings and analytics

  • What type of content are firms looking for in the current environment?
  • How are content providers responding to new demands for differentiated and value-add content
  • Video and audio content: is a picture really worth a thousand words?
  • What will the next generation of research and ratings look like?
  • What new analytical tools will firms employ to get the most out of this content?

Moderator: Max Bowie, Editor, INSIDE MARKET DATA
Charles Gastellu, Global Head of Market Data, CALYON
Charles Kenton, Strategic Sourcing, DRESDNER KLEINWORT
Antoine Kohler, Managing Director, ICAP
Adam Smallman, Managing Editor for Investment Banking Solutions, DOW JONES
Martin Wilson, Market Data Consultant, NOMURA INTERNATIONAL

14.30 Panel: Corporate Actions: Tagging and timeliness

  • Identifying strategies for meeting the immediate need to reduce risk and the potential for financial losses
  • Assessing the opportunities for moving to a ‘near real-time’ corporate actions data distribution model
  • Reviewing the benefits of extending XBRL to corporate actions to standardize data at the source level
  • How can the European corporate actions industry build on data tagging initiatives in other geographies or industries

Moderator: PJ Di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-IT GROUP LTD
Barry Adams, AVP, Corporate Actions
BNY MELLON
David Berry, Data Sourcing Specialist, UBS
Deb Culhane, Chief Operating Officer, FIDELITY ACTIONS XCHANGE
Paul Harrington, Position Services, Global Head of Risk, MORGAN STANLEY
Paul Phillips, Business Development, SMARTSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES

15.15 Afternoon break

15.45 Panel: Direct feeds from established financial centers to emerging markets

  • How global is the demand for direct feeds?
  • How much conflation is acceptable for an algo trader?
  • How do you evaluate the ROI of going direct?
  • How does direct feed demand in the UK and Europe differ from the US?
  • How do you manage a co-location strategy for pan-European trading in a fragmented and geographically diverse market?

Moderator: Juan Carlos Nieto, Founding Partner, INDEX INTELLIGENCE
Nicholas Morrison, Head of Middleware & Market Data Technology, NOMURA
Roji Oommen, Director, Financial Services, SAVVIS
Tim Street, Head of Colo Trading Infrastructure, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
David Hann, Managing Director EMEA,ACTIV FINANCIAL

15.45 Panel: Counterparty Data, quality and risk

  • Using data as a strategic value and putting a figure on the true cost of bad counterparty data
  • Meeting the pressing need for well-maintained, high quality data
  • Reducing counterparty risk and calculating counterparty exposure
  • Benefits of centralized data management systems

Moderator: Meredith Gibson, Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel
Naomi Clarke, Independent Management Consultant
Donald Roll,
Managing Director, Europe, ALACRA
Sean Taylor, Commercial Head, Private Wealth Management, DEUTSCHE

16.30 Vendor Panel

  • Slashed budgets and industry cutbacks: how have vendors been impacted?
  • How have recent market conditions shaped end-user priorities and demand?
  • Next in line: new products and services that are at the forefront of vendor offerings
  • Competition vs. co-operation: how vendors aim to meet end-user demands in unstable markets

Moderator: Graham Downie, Investment Governance, STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
Antoine Kohler, Managing Director, ICAP
Simon Rodda, Director, Product Development Management, DOW JONES
David Senogles, Head of Products, SIX TELEKURS
Brandon Tepper, Managing Director, NASDAQ

17.20 Chairperson's closing remarks

17.25 Cocktail reception

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