Xtrakter is pleased to announce its 2009 Annual User Conference titled: STP: Vital New Paradigms For Managing Operational, Counterparty and Settlement Risk.
This initiative is designed to stimulate new thinking to address unprecedented business critical issues governing operational, counterparty and settlement risk amongst Xtrakters' user community member firms.
The user conference and exhibition provides a platform for industry discussion and debate to address the risk management challenges facing the global financial services sector following the credit crisis. The program will contain a number of focused panel discussions and presentations from acknowledged experts and market practitioners and offer invaluable networking opportunities to delegates.
The event is open to all Xtrakter user community members (only) and is gratis to attend. The event aims to attract over 300 senior representatives from Xtrakters global user community, covering all three lines of users; Trade Matching, Regulatory Reporting and Information Services. The conference caters to the following client roles: CEO, CIO, COO, Heads of; Fixed Income, Trading, Equities, Risk, Performance, Data, Operations, Compliance & IT.
The event aims to allow delegates to:
come together to discuss/ debate critical market challenges
listen to leading market practitioners and learn from their experiences
network and engage with other community peers
learn more about what Xtrakter is doing and to advise the utility on its future direction
Conference program will focus on following topics and more;
Trade matching – how to mitigate against risk
Risk reduction - what strategies you can use in non steady state markets
Transaction reporting - changes to ETD reporting
Market /Pricing Data and the need for aggregation
Counterparty risk strategies
Market practice – New rules and new thinking / who is the regulator?
Operational Costs – lowering costs and managing operational risk
Operational efficiency in a post-credit crunch world
Speakers include:
Angela Knight, Chief Executive, BBA
Simon Bennett, COO, UBA Capital
Ian Holden, European Credit Management (ECM)
John Emerson, Head of Cash Equities Operations, EMEA, UBS
Didier Bensaid, AFTI (tbc)
Ian Chicken, COO, ICAP
Anthony Kirby, Director, Ernst & Young
Ross Barrett, Director, Wholesale, BBA
And more ...
