Corporate Actions Processing Conference

Friday, January 27, 2012

Financial Technologies Forum, LLC

HF Compliance Webinar

4th Annual Corporate Actions Processing

October 13, 2010

Bayards, One Hanover Square, New York, NY

CPE Credits: 7.0

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A Sampling of Last Year's Delegates:

Admiral Capital Management	Advantus Capital Management
Aite Group	AllianceBernstein
Aviva Investors North America	Babson Capital Management, LLC
BNY Mellon	Capital Group
Citi Investment Management	Deutsche Bank Asset Management
Eton Park Capital Management	Vanguard
Franklin Templeton	Freddie Mac
George Weiss Associates	Halcyon Asset Management
Harvard Management Co.	Highbridge Capital Management
T. Rowe Price	JP Morgan
Frontpoint Partners	Legg Mason
MFS Investment Management	Morgan Stanley
Northern Trust	Select Equity Group, Inc.
BlackRock	W.R. Huff Asset Management
Wells Fargo	Western Asset Management

8:30	Registration, Networking & Breakfast
9:00	Chairperson's Opening Remarks Gary Wright, CEO BISS Research
9:15	Key Note: A New Messaging Standard: Migrating from ISO 15022 to ISO 20022 Speaker: Malene McMahon, Senior Business Manager, SWIFT
9:45	Tag, You're It - Who Doesn't Want to Play? Will the blame for any discrepancies fall on the issuers if XBRL tagging is implemented? Should the SEC regulate tagging? Why the Industry should self-regulate and follow industry wide standardization of tagging. Moderator: Debbie Mercer-Miller, Director, North American Custody, Citi Panelist: Mark Bolgiano, President & CEO XBRL US Andrew Chapman, Vanguard David Hands, Director, Asset Services, Product Management, DTCC
10:30	Refreshment Break
10:45	The Future of Proxy Voting: Snail Mail vs. Electronic Ballots Are the cost savings worth the decrease in votes? Are there really any cost saving with switching to electronic notifications What is holding the investors back from voting online? Will the proposed SEC changes improve the voting process? Using social networking to communicate with retail investors Moderator: Frank Zarb, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Panelists: Max Mansur, Global Market Manager, Asset Servicing, SWIFT Chuck Callan, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Broadridge Veronica O'Neill, Vice President, Corporate Actions Bank of America Merill Lynch
11:30	Benefits & Challenges of Implementing the New Cost Basis Reporting Law Moderator: Mary Lou Von Kaenel, Managing Director,Management Consulting Jordan & Jordan Panelists: Richard Ryndak, Senior Product & Editorial Manager, Securities Tax Solutions, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Greg Alves, Vice President Scivantage
12:15	Lunch Break with Exhibitors
1:15	Corporate Actions - Is There an App for That? How to utilize iPhones and other mobile technology for corporate actions Speaker Gerard Bermingham, Vice President of Product Strategy Information Mosaic
1:45	Corporate Actions Software - Is There Really a Solution? Reducing the burden of interpretation needed when processing corporate action announcements from issuers Keeping up with the high speed demand from the market Moderator: Margit Lauezzari-Mason, Director, Business Process Management, Pershing LLC Panelists: Paul Fullam, Senior Director, Business Strategy, XSP Elizabeth Krow, BlackRock Sri Sundar, Vice President TCS
2:30	A Global View on Corporate Actions Standards Issuer Problems and Solutions around the world Reducing risks and lowering costs by improving transparency and communications between issuers and investors Efforts to move the US towards global corporate actions standardization Moderator: Amy Harkins, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, BNY Mellon Panelists: Ranjit Chatterji, Managing Director, Global Head of Network Management, Citi Laura Pollard, Executive Vice President, Fidelity ActionsXchange Chris Stone, Director of Equity Business Products & Strategy, Transparency Services Dept., FINRA
3:15	Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
3:30	Asset Managers View Point: What are the problems with Corporate Actions in the U.S.? Moderator Gary Wright, BISS Research Panelists: DeeDee Walsh, Vice President, Loomis Sayles & Company Christopher George, Vice President, Manager Corporate Actions Wellington Management Company, LLP Chuck Kilby, Vice President JP Morgan Investment Management Inc.
4:00	Standardizing Communications with the Custodian - What More Should Custodians be Doing? Moderator: Chris Kotsifas, Founder, STP Consulting Solutions Panelists: Chris Frier, Senior Manager of Corporate Actions & PPM Operations, MFS Investment Management Neil Ruffell, Vice President, Corporate Actions AllianceBernstein Anne Levonen, Director Credit Suisse Securities, LLC
4:40	Sailing Ahead: What's on the Horizon for Corporate Actions?
5:00	Seminar Adjourns

Event Sponsors

Information Mosaic

DTCC

Wolters Kluwer

XSP

Fidelity ActionsXchange

TCS

Scivantage

Broadridge

Six Telekurs

Interactive Data

Media Sponsors

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