Acorn Derivatives Management Corp.

AQR Capital

Balyasny Asset Management

Bank of America

Bank of America Capital Management

BNY Mellon

Cohen & Steers

Dialectic Capital Management

Dreman Value Management

EDD Fund Services

Genworth Financial

GoldenTree Asset Mgmt

HIMCO

Inverness Counsel LLC

Lord Abbett

Magnitude Capital

MetLife

Neuberger Berman

Northern Trust

Sasco Capital

Silver Point Capital

State Street Global Services

TD Ameritrade, Inc

TIAA-CREF

Tocqueville Asset Management, L.P.

Turner Investments

Uniplan Investment Counsel

W.R. Huff Asset Management

8:15 AM

Registration & Breakfast with the Exhibitors 

9:00 AM

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Dayle Scher, Vice President
State Street Global Services 

9:15 AM

Streamlining Your Operations: Avoiding Common Failures Associated with Reconciliations 

• How to address OTC Reconciliation disputes
• Identifying high risk exceptions before they happen
• In-house vs. Outsourcing

Moderator:
Dayle Scher, Vice President,
State Street Global Services
Panelists:
Alberto Corvo, Managing Director,
eClerx
Brian Sobolak, Vice President, Global Reconciliations,
Northern Trust
Pradiv Mahesh, Global Sales Manager,
Omgeo

10:05 AM

Dealing with Costly ‘Exceptions’

Nearly all trades are cleared and settled correctly, but some trades are overlooked and fixing these exceptions can cost millions each year. With no automation or workflow process in place explicitly intended to deal with exceptions, it’s a difficult process and with no process, these exceptions are expensive to handle since each is handled differently and by a different person each time.

• How can your firm combine technology and business procedures to deal with these exceptions?
• Can you catch costly exceptions earlier?
• With exceptions management still largely a manual process, is automating your reconciliations process worth it? Is the initial investment to automate worth the inevitable cost savings?

Moderator:
Dayle Scher, Vice President,
State Street Global Services
Panelists:
Sunil Bhatt, Vice President, Head of Investment Operations
HIMCO
Lisa Iagatta, Risk and Compliance,
Fiserv
Joe Trentacosta, Vice President,
AQR Capital 

10:50 AM

Networking Break with the Exhibitors

11:10 AM

Post Dodd-Frank Challenges & Opportunities for Collateral Desks

• Complexities of the brave new desk - Multiple agreements, impact on margining, portfolio reconciliation, dispute resolution processes & funding
• Getting ready and doing more with less - should you outsource or act in-house

Speaker:
Mary Harris, Business Manager,
TriOptima

11:40 AM

Tri-Party Reconciliations

• How can asset managers increase the rate of reconciliation with dealers when the dealers are reluctant to give data to the custodian?
• How does the lack of standards for formatting the data affect the process?
• Can a dealer tell whether the custodian is actually providing service to the asset manager?

Moderator:
Jon Ambos, Director, Investment Administration,
Citi
Panelists:
Tarun Jain, Director, Product Manager,
Cosmos Technology
John Morik, Managing Director,
BNY Mellon
Ed Corral, Executive Director, Global Head of Tri-Party Repo,
Morgan Stanley

12:30 PM

Lunch Break with the Exhibitors

1:30 PM

Moving From Silos Matching to Enterprise-Wide Reconciliation

Banks and Financial institutions are dealing with multiple applications across multiple lines of business using multiple financial instruments. But at close of business every day, the organization’s entire information system must be consistent both internally and externally with counterparts.

For many years, the majority of banks and securities houses have successfully automated reconciliation of bank accounts and securities positions in custodian accounts. But more often than not the solutions in place, whether purchased or built in house, cannot be extended to other areas of the business to enable true generic reconciliation enterprise-wide.

Speaker:
Etienne Savatier, Associate Partner
Sterci
 

2:00 PM

Next Generation: Recs Technology

• Where should you focus your firm’s IT Spending?
• Is Reconciliations in Cloud the next trend?
• How can technology assist with making your back-office operations more efficient?
• How technology can help mitigate operational risk 
• Reporting Platforms

Moderator:
Paul Smith, Managing Principal, 
Capco
Panelists:
Andrew Ho, Product Manager, Reconciliations,
SunGard
Jeff Fries, Global Product Management,
State Street
Brian Sobolak, Vice President, Global Reconciliations,
Northern Trust

3:00 PM

Networking Break with the Exhibitors

3:15 PM

 Reducing Counterparty & Market Risk – Adapting to a T+2 cycle

• Will the US follow the EUs example?
• Current global standards initiatives
• Should reconciliations be eliminated wherever possible to reduce risk?

Speaker:
Paul Smith, Managing Principal, 
Capco

3:45 PM

Managing Data While Keeping Up with Growing Volumes across Asset Classes

• In this session panelists, will cover FX, Global Securities, Options and Derivatives

Speakers:
Berl Kaufman, Consultant,
Afferent Services
Chad Wekelo, Founder & Principal,
Actualize Consulting

4:30 PM

Conference Adjourns