2010 Agenda - Tuesday, 8 June 2010

End-user panel: Putting data management on the radar

• Positioning good quality data as a key factor for the business
• Strategies for lowering costs and operating on tight budgets
• Data governance: What is the optimal organizational structure?
• Transparency and standards: Working with vendors, peers and regulators to reach a common goal

John Visti Madsen, Market Data Manager, Vendor and Sourcing Management, SAXO BANK

Case Study: Vendor management – How to optimise your portfolio of providers

Claus Thorball, Director, Head of Vendor & Sourcing Management, SAXO BANK

Panel: Enterprise data management: Centralising data to reduce risk

• Establishing effective data management strategies to reduce risk
• Justifying enterprise data management projects by demonstrating return on investment
• Assessing implementations that deliver flexible and scalable data management infrastructures on time and on budget
• The next phase: How to measure success of enterprise data management activities

Panel: Climate Change: Competition between exchanges and MTFs heats up

• Liquidity fragmentation between exchanges and MTFs in the Northern European data landscape
• Impact of the upcoming regulation on the European exchange data environment
• How are trading venues differentiating themselves against their direct competitors and other exchanges/MTFs
• Impact of Iceland's economic collapse on trading and data in the Nordic markets
• Assessing the current and future impacts of Nordic Inet and Genium Inet Market Info on trading trends
• Reaching a consensus around usage reporting and data audits

Panel: Counterparty data: Improving quality and mitigating risk

• Identifying best practices for sourcing and maintaining business entity data
• Measuring the true cost and risk related to faulty counterparty data
• Strategies for linking issuer and instrument data to help manage counterparty risk
• The quest for improved identification of business entities

Panel: The Chips are Down: Complex technology becomes increasingly key to winning strategies

• Matching the technology demands of trading and investment firms' data groups as trading operations and data providers evolve
• Tackling issues around data latency and capacity: Are firms focusing more on latency measurement?
• What technologies are data consumers using to address challenges within low-latency trading infrastructures?
• Connectivity challenges: Does Copenhagen's geographical position help or hinder pan-European connectivity and trading strategies?
• Have the economic climate and increased competition made it easier or harder to obtain budgets and resources for technology projects around market data?

Afternoon break

Panel: Pricing illiquid assets: The evolution of evaluations

• How to ensure credible pricing and meet reporting requirements
• Reviewing the need for mitigating risk and taking multiple pricing sources
• Inputs vs calculation models: Where should the focus be?
• Ensuring the growing importance of thorough evaluation processes is reflected in budgets and infrastructures

Chairperson's closing remarks: Tine Thoresen, Editor, INSIDE REFERENCE DATA