Bringing together market data, reference data and data management executives from leading financial institutions across North America to examine solutions to urgent challenges facing their businesses.

Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data are proud to bring you the annual North American Financial Information Summit 2010, providing the industry’s leading forum for data executives to discuss the latest strategies to help stay ahead of the business, regulatory, and technology challenges facing the market and reference data community.

The North American Financial Information Summit is the leading forum for market and reference data professionals in the US. The 2010 summit is set to build on the success of last year’s congress, which saw more than 500 of the nations’ leading data executives in attendance.

To ensure you stay ahead of the business, regulatory, and technology challenges facing the market and reference data community and to share ideas with you peers, make sure you mark this date in your diary now!

So what will be featured in the 2010 agenda?

• Highlights on how to leverage existing resources to deliver growth and savings
• Insights into preparing counterparty data management for the next regulatory move
• Addresses on the next generation of data content and information to feed the alpha hunters
• A look into the next generation of standards
• Talks on utilizing exchange data and maximizing its value
• Case studies about projects currently underway in leading financial institutions

That’s not all…

You will walk away from the North American Financial Information Summit 2010 having:

• Discovered how to deal with the drivers behind increasing market and reference data volumes and the risks of inadequate capacity management strategies
• Heard about the latest in corporate action initiatives and gained a better understanding of expected take-up of ISO 20022 and XBRL
• Participated in debates about sourcing and capturing accurate data
• Networked with senior level speakers, market and reference data experts, data providers and your peers in the industry
• Learnt about new market and reference data management frameworks that will get you the most from the current economic climate
• Realized new initiatives that you can implement immediately to make the most of freely available data
• Taken practical ideas to help reduce the cost of your overall data spend to get more value for your money
• Created new contacts for future business prospects

Benefits of attending:

• Compare your market and reference data management strategies, cost-cutting initiatives and risk management initiatives by benchmarking with your peers and hear case studies on implementation of the latest solutions
• Assess the latest low latency solutions and learn about other factors that combine with low latency to give firms an advantage
• Explore the drivers behind increasing market and reference data volumes and the risks of inadequate capacity management strategies
• Hear exclusively from top speakers about the core components of an EDM strategy and the most effective techniques for maintaining consistent data models across data feeds
• Discover the best business protocols for improving data quality through an optimized data governance program and uncover how to increase the availability of data across more applications
• Participate in the interactive panel discussions and discuss the impact of the recent merger activity on you and your firm

Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsoring or exhibiting at the North American Financial Information Summit will enhance your organization’s presence and enable you to maximise your profile with the right audience. To discuss specific packages that could suit your individual requirements, please contact Jo Garvey on +1 212 457 7745 or Lee Hartt, on +44 (0) 20 7484 9907.