SIFMA Fixed Income & Derivatives Operations Conference

Hospitality Suite
Hosted by JPMorgan

Registration

Breakfast
Hosted by G.X. Clarke & Co.

Welcome & Introduction:

John Panchery
Managing Director
Operations, Technology, Business Continuity Management
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

A Buyside Discussion on Derivatives Operations

Come hear senior buyside operations professionals together with industry service providers discuss recent issues in the derivatives markets.  Hear how derivative operations has been impacted by recent market events and how the buyside has dealt with these issues.  Also, hear how SIFMA's Asset Managers Forum has worked with industry groups to respond to regulator concerns with regards to these markets.

Moderator:

George Reis
Consultant, Asset Managers Forum
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

Panelists:

Claire Lobo
Director
Rates Product Management
Markit

Edith Morrill
Manager Derivatives Operations
GM Asset Management

Darren Measures
Vice President, Collateral Management
JPMorgan Chase

Jack Dixon
Director
Omgeo

A Buyside Discussion on Corporate Actions

Listen to the buyside discuss the current state of corporate actions.  Hear their reactions to the industry's efforts to bring standardization to the corporate actions process.  Hear of current challenges and obstacles with regards to receiving accurate and timely corporate actions information and what the industry's goals are to enhance the information flow from the issuers and downstream to all the parties in the complex chain of any given action type.

Moderator:

George Reis
Consultant, Asset Managers Forum
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

Panelists:

Mary Shine
Project Leader
Coroporate Actions Group
T. Rowe Price Associates

Steven Gale
Vice President
ASP - Capital Structures Business Process
Northern Trust

Chris Breen
Relationship Manager
DTCC

The U.S. Department of the Treasury on its Auction System and BCP and an Update from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Resiliency

Listen to representatives from the U.S. Department of the Treasury discuss recent regulatory and technology developments affecting Treasury security auction participants.  Panelists plan to discuss Treasury's latest developments in business continuity practices for Treasury auctions and auction system technology issues, and Treasury's recently implemented new auction system, New TAAPS®.  Also, a representative from the Federal Reserve will give an update on Fedwire® Services resiliency and business continuity practices.

Moderator:

Michael W. Sunner
Director
Compliance and Risk Management
Office of Financing
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Panelists:

Skip Draber
Director of Special Projects
Office of Financing
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Paul Agueci
Wholesale Project Director
Wholesale Product Office
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Linda Kelly
Vice President
Global Liquid Products
Bank of America

Buffet Lunch
Hosted by
The Bank of New York Mellon

An Operations and Compliance Update for the Municipal and Credit Markets

Hear a panel of dealers together with regulators give an update on the latest operations and compliance issues for the municipal and credit markets.  Listen to how dealers are complying to new rules and standards set by regulators and how operations is affected by these changes.

Moderator:

Leslie Norwood
Managing Director
Associate General Counsel
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

Panelists:  

Harold L. Johnson
Deputy General Counsel
MSRB

Steven Joachim
Executive Vice President
Transparency Services and International Affairs and Services
FINRA

Glynn Braithwaite
Director
Chair - SIFMA Municipal Operations Committe
Citigroup

An Update from Euroclear:

John Nordstrom
Director
Head of New York Office
Euroclear

A Roundtable Discussion on Liquidity in the Fixed Income Markets

Hear market participants together with a representative from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Open Market Account (SOMA) discuss how the market has dealt with liquidity issues in the fixed-income markets.  Hear how the Fed has dealt with challenging market conditions and how it has worked with the industry through various lending programs including its Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) and Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) to promote liquidity in Treasury and other collateral markets and thus foster the functioning of financial markets more generally.

Panelists: 

Deborah A. Perelmuter
Senior Vice President
Head of Domestic Reserve Management
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Art Certosimo
Executive Vice President
Bank of New York Mellon

Thomas Kinnally
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley

Reception 

Dinner
Hosted by
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Hospitality Suite

Breakfast
Hosted by DTCC

Welcome/Introduction
Brian MacWilliams
Director
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

An Update on SIFMA's Credit Rating Agency Task Force

Moderator:

Jack Wiener
Managing Director and Associate General Counsel
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

An Update on Fails Management:  Industry Solutions for Systemic Concerns

Listen to panel of experts discuss how the industry has responded to regulator concerns regarding the potential for systemic fails in U.S. Government Securities.  Hear how SIFMA has responded to these concerns with the publication of its Negative Rates Repo Practice and a draft of fails "Best Practices".

Moderator: 

Robert Toomey
Managing Director and Associate General Counsel
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

Panelists:

Joe Hoermann
Senior Vice President
Tullett Prebon

Refreshment Break

Technology Adapting to the Changing Market

1. How is technology being used to deal with the current dislocation
2. What type of technology solution will help mitigate risk
3. Transparency and valuation issues - how will this evolve
4. "What will the future look like" in response to a rapidly changing landscape
5. How will technology be used to help unfreeze the credit markets

Panelists:

Kevin Arthur
Director, Fixed Income Markets
Omgeo

Michael Shapiro
Vice President, Credit Derivative Product Manager 
Tradeweb

Conference Adjourn

Optional Golf Tournament
Box Lunch Provided 

Hospitality Suite