Conference Program - Ludgate Room
The morning will comprise a kick-off keynote and ‘Big Picture’ panel sessions that will cover topical data management business and technology subjects.
8am - Exhibits open, with breakfast service
| 8.45am - Welcome |
| 8.50am - Keynote Presentation: "Scalable, On-demand Risk and P&L"
The need to accurately estimate collateral for derivative transactions subject to bilateral clearing based on the Credit Support Annex (part of the ISDA Master Agreement) has become critical particularly where this needs to be managed across asset classes. The estimation of this collateral on OIS rates rather than LIBOR adds to the complexity. The talk will focus on a reporting solution that is event driven, cross asset compliant with the ability to handle vast trade populations across large dimension sets but still retaining a high level of scalability and performance. * Raj Subramani, Vice President, JPMorgan Chase |
| 9.30am - "Towards On-Demand Risk & Enterprise Analytics"
The stick of regulation and the carrot of serious competitive advantage are driving the shift toward intra-day, on-demand analysis of risk and other business indicators. But the complexity of today’s financial institutions presents architects with a unique set of challenges. This panel will identify those challenges and offer guidance on how to deal with them. * Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, A-Team Group (Moderator) |
10.30am - Networking, beverage break in the exhibits
| 11am - "Data Architectures for Legal Entity and Securities Identifiers: Shifting Sands"
With regulators weighing in heavily in 2012, identifiers for securities and legal entities are no longer the quiet backwater they once were. Ongoing initiatives to introduce a legal entity identifier (LEI) and continuing wrangling over access to vendor-maintained security identifiers means a lot is changing. How can practitioners stay on top of this moving target?
* Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, A-Team Group (Moderator) |
| 11.45am - "Emerging Technology Approaches: Big Data, Cloud, Grid and In-Memory" Managing enterprise-wide data for trading and risk applications is being made easier by new technologies and approaches. Big Data technologies in particular are solving issues of data velocity, volume and variety. Cloud offerings are providing cost-effective and agile solutions to data storage and processing, while in-memory techniques are increasingly being sought to deliver the high performance that the financial markets require. This panel will explore current state of the art technologies, and what’s over the horizon. * Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, A-Team Group (Moderator) |
12.30pm - Networking, buffet luncheon in the exhibits
Afternoon Program - ‘Drill-Down’ Workshops
The afternoon will consist of in-depth workshop sessions allowing the opportunity to ‘Drill Down’ into industry topics or technology solutions.
| 1.30pm | "Consistent, On Demand Risk Information: From the Data Centre to Your iPad"
Financial institutions are struggling to meet their regulatory and business requirements with respect to risk and analytics, hindered by the complexity of their activities and the entrenched lines of business, or siloes, that make enterprise approaches difficult.
Most firms want to improve their risk capabilities, but cannot admit that they must adapt to post-2008 conditions — challenges that are generic and industry-wide, according to the A-Team Group report ‘Managing risk information in the siloed enterprise’. And business managers must better understand system requirements, as well as implied scale and complexity issues. This is a no-brainer for most IT strategists, but how do you up-sell these improvements to executives? How do you demonstrate business benefits of new risk management architectures? How can the middle office generate revenue with existing tools? And how can forward looking firms transform regulation into a catalyst for business with a manageable investment in the middle office?
* Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, A-Team Group |
| 2.30pm | "Emergence of Data + Compute Intensive Workloads" Increasingly applications are becoming both compute and data intensive. New methodologies such as MapReduce enable compute intensive applications to cost-effectively and quickly scale up to process vast quantities of data. This workshop explores the potential impact of big data analytics on the data centre. Questions and Topics Where are potential data and performance bottlenecks, and what are some real-life best practices to minimizing these obstructions over time? What are the architecture considerations with:
* Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, A-Team Group |
| 3.30pm | Networking, beverage break in the exhibits. Exhibits close at 4pm. |
| 4pm | "Implementing Basel III: Are You Ready?" The new regulatory regime of Basel III goes live on 1 January 2013, for both reporting and the new minimum capital requirements. Indeed from as early as this summer, banks are expected to capture and report on key aspects of the new ratios, despite the fact the new EU directive and regulation have yet to be finalized in readiness for the 2013 live date. In this session, Selwyn Blair-Ford, Head of Global Regulatory Policy, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services | FRSGlobal will explore why taking a ‘wait and see’ approach is no longer an option. * Selwyn Blair-Ford - Head Of Global Regulatory Policy, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ FRSGlobal |
| 5pm | Networking reception |
| 6pm | Close |
Note: Oracle will run a series of invite-only briefings alongside the above program, in the Walbrook room. Oracle invitees may attend the entire program..
For sponsor and exhibit opportunities, contact Martyn Hodges - martyn.hodges@a-teamgroup.com.
