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Conference Agenda

7th March 2012, Lancaster London Hotel, London

08.45 OsneyMedia’s welcome address

08.50 Chair’s welcome address and table introductions
Peter Laurens, Independent Consultant

09.00 Impact of the regulatory compelled shift to a new clearing architecture on IT and Ops for the buy-side

• Implications of Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and MiFID for the trade process – moving to SEFs/OTFs and CCPs
• Operational effects of having clearing member brokers
• Extra-territoriality of regulations – MiFID, EMIR, Dodd-Frank
• How do you choose your clearing members?

Dr Anthony Kirby, Director Regulatory Risk Management, Ernst & Young

09.30 Building, adapting, and maintaining your operational structure in the new environment

• What strategic decisions do you need to make regarding your operations?
• Mitigating risk resulting from the new environment
• Due diligence you need to perform
• Implementing the new structure
• Where are the pitfalls are likely to be – reporting to multiple TRs, reconciling your position with bilateral counterparties

10.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: What derivative outsourcing options are there and how well do they work?

• What is the business case for outsourcing given the new environment?
• How do choose and then manage your outsourcer effectively?
• Selective outsourcing – integrating selected services with your operations
• Data scrubbing and exception management – options to watch?

Daniel Sullivan, Head of Vendor Management, JP Morgan Asset Management
Stephen Andress, Global Head of Derivative Operations, Northern Trust
Mark Murray, Global Head of Derivative Operations, BNY Mellon

10.30 Morning Coffee

11.00 Overcoming the challenges of obtaining quality market data for OTC and complex derivatives

• Standardising definitions
• Sectors, asset classes and instruments
• Static and prices data generation – prices valuations and static data gathering process
• Present issues on the supplier and client process side

David Berry, IPUG & Cossiom Executive Committee Member

11.50 Collateral and margin management

• How do you manage your collateral pool in the new environment? – eligibility, optimisation, and transformation
• Managing liquidity within shortened timelines
• Optimising the operational processes across asset classes
• Arguments for organising collateral management in house vs. outsourced
• Minimising the costs of collateral management

Bauke Vriesema, Consultant, Voogt Pijl & Partners

12.00 Legal framework for OTCs in the new environment

• Constructs available to improve efficiency and reduce risk – tri-party initial margin arrangements
• What documentation do you need?
• How can you efficiently process documentation to ensure speedy transactions
• Case studies: practical examples of where legal documentation went wrong

Guy Usher, Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

12.30 Roundtable: The chair directs discusssions on the top three hot issues from your requests on the day

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