A webinar designed for senior operations professionals at investment firms looking to understand the impact that increasing volume and upcoming regulation will have on the future of trade processing. Featuring insight from a leading institution, analyst and solutions provider in the OTC industry, Perspectives on OTC Trade Processing explores opportunities to improve operational efficiency and reduce risk in trade processing. 

Overview: 

OTC trade volumes continue to increase, yet according to a 2009 ISDA study, approximately 60% of OTC trades are still confirmed manually. While the use of OTC instruments grows, institutional technology in the middle and back office has largely failed to keep up with the expansion; increasing cost and risk and hampering front office flexibility. Beyond this, the events of 2008 have ushered in a new era of regulatory oversight and placed increased focus on counterparty risk management and effective collateral management. This unique webinar examines how firms can leverage operational workflow improvements to remain compliant and competitive in a new OTC landscape.

Attend this 60 minute webinar to hear four leading industry experts discuss the following topics: ·  

• Fritz McCormick, Senior Analyst, Aite Group
• Paul Baram, Director of Client Services, Financial and Risk Solutions, OpenLink
• Ken Knowles, Executive Vice President, Financial & Risk Solutions, OpenLink
• OpenLink Client:  $96.4B Fund

You are invited to join PNC Bank, ACI Consulting & The Aite Group for an Oracle sponsored discussion on the future of trading and broker compliance in a new era of regulatory oversight.

Overview

As the tide goes out on the economy and scandal seems to erupt every day, chief compliance officers and chief risk officers are finding themselves in the spotlight like never before. Regulation in the derivatives market is looming, and institutions are in greater need of multi asset class surveillance solutions that operate seamlessly across all business lines. As compliance teams try to deliver more with fewer staff and resources, a single scalable technology solution is becoming the Holy Grail.  

Attend this 60 minute webinar to hear four leading industry experts discuss the following topics:

• Maintaining a compliance program with higher stakes, and fewer resources
• Critical steps in implementing a trading and broker compliance platform and ensuring it provides the level of protection you need
• Upcoming regulations in the derivatives market 

Featured Speakers:

• Sang Lee, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Aite Group
• Mitch Avnet, Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, Broker Dealer, Fiduciary and RIA Compliance, PNC Bank
• Richard M. Nummi, Esq. Executive Consultant, Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Consulting, ACI
• Bill Nosal, Governance, Risk & Compliance Product Management, Oracle Financial Services Software

Highly complex models and approaches have left the risk management industry open to criticisms, and risk reports themselves difficult to decipher. Can a more pragmatic approach help restore the practice of risk management in the eyes of its stakeholders and the public environment?  

Please join FTF and SunGard for an informative free webcast where we’ll explore this subject matter deeper. Attend this one-hour webinar to hear three leading experts discuss the following topics:  

• Marcus Cree, Director of Solutions, SunGard Capital Markets & Investment Banking
• Ed Peris, Head of Market Risk, Piper Jaffray & Co.
• Holly Miller, Partner, Stone House Consulting

With the volatile financial landscape we’re in, credit and counterparty risk exposure has taken top rank, going from a theoretical to realized risk.  And as trading strategies have become more sophisticated, the infrastructure to effectively manage risk in the middle and back office has not adequately kept pace.  The rampant use of over the counter (OTC) products, combined with a new regulatory focus on the OTC markets, continue to highlight and magnify shortcomings in firms’ operational and risk management capabilities.  Firms that struggled to deal with the recent collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers know all too well the importance of fully understanding their exposure to counterparties and properly collateralizing positions.  In addition, buy-side institutions are realizing that effective collateral management can have a material impact not only on risk, but also on performance.  Collateral management is asset management. 

Please join FTF and Omgeo for an informative free webcast where we'll explore the current counterparty risk management environment and how securities firms can better position themselves for the challenges that lie ahead.  Attend this one-hour webinar to hear three leading industry experts discuss the following topics:

•  The importance of sound collateral and reconciliation practices for increasing transparency into risk exposure
• The current process for managing counterparty risk and what can we expect in the future
• What opinions exist regarding the industry's answer to OTC derivatives processing and regulation
• How firms can increase levels of automation and in doing so, increase their capacity and reduce risk

Featured Speakers:

• Tim Lind, Managing Director, Strategic Planning, Omgeo
• Simon Lillystone, Director, Business Development, Collateral and Margin Management, Omgeo
• Brian Lynn, Founder and CTO, Global Electronic Markets

• Analysis/preparation of hedge fund financial statements and required reporting disclosures (incl. recent pronouncements)
  1. Domestic
  2. Off-shore
  3. Master Feeder
  4. Fund of Funds
• Implementation roadblocks & best practices relating to SFAS 157: Fair Value Measurements
  
• FIN 48: What to Look Out for Now
• Highlight of updates made to latest AICPA accounting and auditing guide for investment companies
• Update on Imminent Standards & Current Hot Topics
  1. FASB 161
  2. Disclosure requirements for suspension of redemptions, gates, and in-kind redemptions
  3. Trade claims with Lehman Brothers (U.S and U.K)
  4. Possible modifications on audit reports due to valuation issues

• Ralph Natilli, CPA, Principal, Financial Services Group, Rothstein Kass 
• Gregory Levy, CPA, Financial Services Principal, Kaufman, Rossin & Co.

Now more than ever, counterparty risk is a top priority for most financial institutions. The substantial growth of the OTC derivatives market and the increasing operational demands of the credit crisis, calls for firms to arm themselves with risk procedures that will better monitor their counterparty’s ability to meet obligations and better calculate risk exposure.

During this 90 minute webinar, the speakers will discuss:

• Update on current challenges in counterparty risk
• Top 3 components for mitigating counterparty risk
• Measures financial firms are taking to tackle challenges 

Speakers:
Stephen Bruel, Analyst, TowerGroup
Darren P. Measures, Executive Director, Collateral Management, JPMorgan

Moderator:
Julia Schieffer, Founder, DerivSource