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5th Annual Reconciliations & Exception Management
September 22, 2010
Bayards, One Hanover Square, New York, NY
CPE Credits: 7.0
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 Join your Peers from:

 
Acorn Derivatives Management Corp.

Bank of America

Citi

Credit Suisse Alternative Investments

Eagle Capital Management

FX Concepts

Genworth Financial

Guggenheim Partners

HIMCO

Inverness Counsel Inc

L Plus LLC

Legg Mason

Loomis, Sayles & Co.

Lord Abbett & Co. LLC

MEAG New York Corporation

Nomura Asset Management

Northwestern Mutual

Prudential

Russell Investments

Saba Capital

SAC Capital Advisors

State Street

The Bank of NY Mellon

TIAA-CREF

Two Sigma Investments, LLC

Wafra Investment Advisory Group, Inc.

 

9:00

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Cynthia Meyn,
Senior Vice President
PIMCO

9:15Opening Roundtable: Industry Initiatives in Reconciliations & Exceptions Management

Moderator:
Mark DiMaio,
Ernst & Young
Panelists:
Jan Dings,
Head of Matching Product Management,
SWIFT
Erica Choinski, Assistant Vice President, BBH
Board of Directors, ISITC
Brian Sobolak, Vice President, North American Reconciliations Operations Manager,
Northern Trust

10:15

Increase Efficiency & Transparency in Operations: Managing Data While Keeping Up with Growing Volumes Across Asset Classes

Moderator:
Nick Jackson,
Partner,
Capco
Panelists:
Todd Sloan, Vice President
Electra Information Systems
John Burchenal, Managing Director, Market Growth
Omgeo
Charles Kilby, Vice President,
J.P. Morgan Investment Management

11:00Refreshment Break with the Exhibitors

11:15

STP for OTC Derivatives: Automation of Exceptions Management in the Hands of Business Users?

  • Complexity of OTC Processing
  • Costs of Exception Management
  • Automation of Exception Management in the Hands of Business Users
  • Increased ROI from Empowered Business Users

    Speaker:
    Sophal Khuong,
    Caswil Corporation     View Presentation
  • 11:40

    Automation, Automation, Automation

  • Automating the financial close process could free up time to allocate resources to other issues, in turn adding value to your business. What challenges do you face at the financial close and can automation overcome these challenges
  • Exceptions Management is still largely a manual process, but automating your reconciliations process could lower costs. WIth that said, there is still a significant cost to move to automating reconciliations. Is the cost worth it in the end?
  • Creating a shared service to support Structured Exception Management
  • Achieving STP by automating exception processing
  • Achieve cost reduction by improving operational efficiencies and lowering operational risk

    Moderator
    Tim O'Donnell,
    Director       View Presentation
    PricewaterhouseCoopers
    Panelists
    Nolan Gesher, Senior Product Manager
    Fiserv

    Brian Sobolak, Vice President, North American Reconciliations Operations Manager,
    Northern Trust
    Jan Dings, Head of Matching Product Management
    SWIFT
  • 12:30Lunch Break with the Exhibitors

    1:30

    Common Failures Associated with Reconciliations and How to Avoid Them

    • Effective Management Information
    • Common Causes of Reconciliations Failures
    • Identifying High Risk Exceptions
    • Developing Effective Oversight and Escalation

    Moderator:
    Cynthia Meyn,
    Senior Vice President
    Pimco
    Panelists

    Jack Gomez, Managing Director & Head of Asset Servicing Operation Risk,
    BNY Mellon
    Andrew Clipper, Director, Investment Services,
    Citi Markets & Banking
    Michael Daley, VP, Director of Fixed Income Operations,
    Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.

    Sanjay Singh,
    Director, Reconciliations Services
    Syntel Inc.

      2:20







    Mitigating Risk Through Operational Control & Transparency

  • What are the Key Controls?
  • Portfolio Reconciliation in Brief
  • Establishing an Effective Bilateral Margining Process
  • Optmising the Use of Operations Controls Across Departments

    Speaker:
    Mary Harris,
    TriResolve Business Manager
    TriOptima
  • 2:45To Outsource or Not to Outsource: The Continuing Debate on the Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Reconciliations

    Moderator:
    Denise Valentine, Senior Analyst
    Aite Group
    Panelists

    Michael Daley, VP, Director of Fixed Income Operations,
    Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
    Chris Coleman, Managing Director,
    The Bank of New York Mellon
    Mohit Tandon, Director, Business Development, Banking & Financial Services
    Tata Consultancy Services

    3:30Refreshment Break with the Exhibitors

    3:45Case Study: Cash Reconciliation Automation

    Speaker:
    Jeff Fries,
    Vice President        View Presentation
    State Street

    4:15

    Reconciliations of Collateral- Where's the Easy Button?

    Moderator:
    Cynthia Meyn,
    Senior Vice President
    PIMCO
    Panelists:
    Berl Kaufman,
    Afferent Consulting
    Shannon Wachs, OTC & Derivatives Operations Manager
    Deutsche Bank

    5:00

    Seminar Adjourns