This page gives you details for the joint 4th Annual ISS Magazine Post-trade conference and ISITC Europe Conference and AGM which was held on 3rd March 2015. This is the only event run by the industry for the industry in London for those involved in Post-trade operations in Securities Services.
Thank you to everyone who helped to make the conference such a great success.
Draft Agenda
8.30 - Registration opens – Refreshments
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9.30 - Chair’s opening remarks
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9.45 - Keynote Speaker
Stephan Wolf, CEO - GLEIF
An update on progress so far and outstanding items
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10.30 - ISO 20022 Panel
Is there any benefit to financial practitioners in moving to ISO2022 or is it something that divides the US and Europe?
Panel:
- Fiona Hamilton, Volante Technology
- David Baxter, Managing DIrector - T-Scape
- Andrew Muir, Head of Standards Operations - SWIFT
- Kevin Houstoun, Chairman & Owner - Rapid Addition and co-chair of FIX Protocol Ltd's Global Technical Committee
- Martin Gwinnutt, Non-Executive Director - DBFS (Chair)
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11.15 - Tea/Coffee break
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11.45 - Presentation - 'Building Financial Utilities and Shared Services'
Darryl Twiggs, EVP Product Manager, Smartstream Technologies
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12.15 - Panel Discussion – Outsourcing
In the wake of fresh legislation like CSDR, AIFMD etc, is now a good time to outsource all or part of your operations to a third party provider? Or is best to keep the business in-house but outsource your systems to the cloud?
Panel:
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Terri van Praagh, Head of Investment Operations - Northern Trust
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Brian Collings, Torstone
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Daryl Twiggs, EVP Product Manager, SmartStream Technologies
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Tom Kirkpatrick, Managing Director - SS&C GlobeOp (Chair)
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Simon Pilkington, Director - Amaces
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13.00 - Lunch
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14.00 - Presentation – Upcoming regulatory issues
Silvano Stagni, Group Head of Marketing and Research, Hatstand
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14.30 - Regulatory Panel
With a raft of legislation new being implemented, what are the issues facing buy side operation executives? What should they be watching out for in 2015-16, are they examples of best practice that they can learn from?
- EMIR – with so many delays, what should operations executives be concentrating on?
- AIFMD – How will the depository passport work in practice?
- MiFID II – What should we expect in terms of post-trade reporting, disclosure and transparency?
- Will there be a UCITS 6?
Panel:
- Tony Freeman, Global Head of Industry Relations - Omgeo (Chair)
- Silvano Stagni, Group Head of Marketing and Research - Hatstand
- Anthony Kirby, Head of Regulatory Reform, Capital Markets / Asset Management - Ernst & Young
- Henry Raschen, Head of Regulatory and Industry Affairs, Europe - HSBC
- Targ Patience, Director - Tesseract Consulting
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15.15 - Tea/Coffee break
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15.45 - Collateral Management Panel
Impact on Firms of New Collateral Requirements and Margin Activity
- Current state of the market
- Designing processes to cope with increased volumes and complexity
- The CCP landscape & Fragmentation
- The role of systems
Panel:
- Kiri Self - Business Development Director - Kinetic Partners (Chair)
- John Wilson Managing Director, Strategy & Business Development - Tradition
- Mark Higgins, Managing Director, Business Development EMEA - BNY Mellon
- Lee McCormack, Executive Director, OTC Clearing Business Development Manager - Nomura
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16.30 - Chairs Closing remarks
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16:45 - ISITC AGM
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17.00 - Drinks reception
Sponsored by:
About our sponsors
Founded in 2000, SmartStream has evolved from a dedicated reconciliations provider to become a market leading provider of
software solutions that deliver automation and control to post-trade operations. The company has grown rapidly, introducing
new solutions and winning multiple industry accolades.
SmartStream addresses the challenges faced by financial institutions through a range of solutions and managed services that
cover the entire post-trade lifecycle, providing more efficient, streamlined and cost-effective middle and back-office operations.
These solutions enable front, middle and back-office clients to gain a lower cost-per-transaction whilst reducing operational risk,
aiding compliance and improving customer service levels.
Solutions offered by SmartStream include:
• Cash & Liquidity Management
• Collateral Management
• Client Money Segregation
• Confirmations Management
• Corporate Actions Processing
• Data Management Services
• Exception Management
• Reconciliations
• Trade Process Management
• Transaction Fees Invoice Management
The adoption of SmartStream’s solutions enables firms to realise market leading match rates in excess of 95%, higher than the
industry average of approximately 84%. Furthermore, SmartStream is the only vendor with the ability to link reference data
management to reconciliations, delivering enhanced cross-instrument processing across the enterprise.
As a result, our solutions are critical to the retooling of post-trade environments demanded by new regulations – whether it is
liquidity transparency, reducing operational risk or moving operations to true intraday transaction processing.
SmartStream is headquartered in the UK with direct operations in London, Bangalore, Beijing, Bristol, Dubai, Frankfurt, Gurgaon,
Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Mumbai, New
For the past 15 years Volante Technologies has been dedicated to helping financial institutions and enterprises around the world with their financial data and message integration, validation and processing challenges.
We enable our growing client base of more than 80 firms and corporate enterprises operating in 26 countries to manage the increasing complexity of financial messages and data so that they can focus on the business of being competitive in their marketplace.
Volante Designer encompasses a suite of modular software tools capable of supporting the most complex message and data transformation and integration challenges on virtually any platform using any data format.
Any organisation needing to transact and communicate with counterparties and customers, whether internally or externally, will benefit from Volante Technologies’ approach to transaction message management. Any counterparty transaction will use a variation of a message, whether following common industry protocols and standards such as FpML, SWIFT, ISO standards, FIX, etc. or messages that are proprietary to their firm.
By working with Volante Technologies, firms avoid the excessive costs of having to invest in or manage data integrations. Volante Technologies’ open standard architecture supports a wide variety of adapters to handle every possible combination of message and data complexity.
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a leading provider of trading, clearing, exchange
technology, listing, information and public company services across six
continents. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers
to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven
technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today’s global
capital markets.
As the creator of the world’s first electronic stock market, its technology powers
more than 70 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world’s securities
transactions. Nasdaq is home to more than 3,500 listed companies with a market
value of over $9.1 trillion and more than 10,000 corporate clients.
To learn more, visit http://nasdaq.com/ambition or http://business.nasdaq.com.
Hatstand is a global financial IT consultancy, with offices in London, Geneva, Dubai,
New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. We enable our clients to make the best use
of technology, delivering flexible and valuable solutions to address the diverse
challenges of the highly dynamic financial technology environment. We focus
specifically, but not exclusively, on Trading Systems, Market & Client Connectivity,
Data Management and Risk, Compliance and Regulation.
Established in 1999, Hatstand has developed from a boutique consultancy into a
global IT player, our success placing us both in The Sunday Times Tech Track Top 100
Companies and also the London Stock Exchange’s prestigious “1,000 Companies to
Inspire Britain” list.
In addition to our proven highly experienced senior consultants, Hatstand nurtures
the most talented IT professionals and provides them with bespoke training and
mentoring to pursue prosperous careers in the financial industry. We achieve
this with our unique talent management programme, Hatstand Green Beret, and
through a traditional consultancy model.
Torstone provides a sell-side post-trade processing platform for multiple asset
classes which can integrate middle, back office and accounting functions or can be
provided as standalone modules. The company’s processing solutions help clients
to reduce operational cost and decrease risk; as well as to remain adaptable to the
evolving financial industry and remain compliant to regulatory changes.
Torstone was borne from a management buy-out of the software, development
and support team from a leading global investment bank. As a result, all of
Torstone’s technology solutions have been developed with first-hand knowledge
of the regulatory and industry issues faced by the sell-side. Torstone’s core product,
Inferno has been developed for over 13 years both within the bank and more
recently as a platform for multiple global clients.
Torstone replace legacy systems with their modern, consolidated platform. This
means clients are better able to deal with the fast pace of regulatory change and
change in settlement practices. The total cost of ownership is reduced because
system updates are simple to make and efficiencies are significantly improved.
