The Finadium 2011 Conference

Open to the public

September 20, 2011
Bayard's
One Hanover Square
New York, NY 10004


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Why attend the Finadium 2011 Conference?
 The Finadium conference is about ideas. Hear from leading hedge funds, prime brokers, securities lending and collateral management professionals on best practices and emerging trends in the asset servicing industries.

The event also features highlights of topics and data from Finadium's independent research reports.

Lunch will be provided and networking is encouraged.

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Agenda

7:45am - 8:30am

Registration and Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am Regulatory Change: Putting the Pieces Together

  • How the many national and supranational regulatory initiatives affect securities lending, collateral management and OTC derivatives
  • A single-regulation perspective is not enough
  • Reactions by market actors to regulatory change
Josh Galper, Conference Chair
Managing Principal
Finadium
9:15am - 10:15am

Prime Brokers, Hedge Funds and Investors: The Importance of Financing in 2011

  • How much do investors care about financing fees?
  • Are buy-side firms taking a holistic view of their financing and derivatives trading activities?
  • Are prime brokers supporting their clients in understanding their capital costs?
  • Dodd-Frank was supposed to create higher fees for financing; has this happened or will it?
  • How should hedge funds and other asset managers benchmark their financing costs across securities lending, margin financing and listed and OTC derivatives?

Moderator
Jack Huber, Director, Prime Finance
Citi

Panelists
Geoff Cole, Senior Manager
Sapient Global Markets

Scot Pasquale, Director, Global Trade Support
Marathon Asset Management

Matt Haney, Consultant
Kinetic Partners

Stephen Casner, CEO
HazelTree Fund Services
10:15am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:15am

Debate: The Stability of ETFs in Operations and the Securities Lending Market

Moderator
Josh Galper, Managing Principal
Finadium

Panelists
Fred Sommers, Partner
Basis Point Group

Jeff McCarthy, Director- Global ETF Product Head
Citigroup

Eric Pollackov, Managing Director, ETF Capital Markets, Schwab ETFs
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

11:15am - 12:15pm

The Impact of CCPs on Collateral Management and Securities Lending

  • Dodd-Frank and CCPs are creating a new demand for high quality collateral -- how is collateral management coping?
  • How are CCPs changing market behavior?
  • Who is benefitting and who is losing from the emergence of CCPs
  • Securities lending is seen as the last bastion of opaque Wall Street: will the new regulatory environment and CCPs change that?

Moderator
Jonathan Cooper, Senior Consultant
Finadium

Panelists
Mat Gagne, Managing Director
eSecLending

Tim Smith, Senior Vice President
SunGard Securities Finance

Kevin Bannerton, Managing Director and Head of Liquidity Management Distribution, Americas
DB Advisors

David Sayles, Managing Director
BlackRock
Following the Conference

Lunch and Networking