North American Financial Information Summit
Welcome to "NAFIS" 2020 - the premier conference and networking event for senior data, compliance and technology decision makers.
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2019 Keynotes and Plenary Speakers
Roman Regelman
Senior Executive Vice President, Head of Digital
BNY MELLON
Roman Regelman is Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Digital for BNY Mellon. He is a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Mr. Regelman is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the firm’s digital future to achieve significant improvements in the company’s business performance and customer and employee experience. He drives investments in our client and internal digital capabilities, including data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. He leads the global digital team across the company, attracting and developing top digital talent.
Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Mr. Regelman took on senior leadership roles that spanned Chief Operating Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Head of Transformation and Head of Customer Journeys. He was a Partner and Managing Director of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he co-led its Financial Institutions Digital business and led Customer Journey, North American Financial Institutions Operations and Lean Practices. At BCG, he ran numerous financial institution and service company transformations, including end-to-end customer journeys, process digitization, Agile, restructuring technology and operations. Prior to BCG, he worked at Booz and Company, Bain & Company, NerveWire/Wipro, Mitchell Madison Group, One Core, GTE/BBN and Gazeta Distribution.
Mr. Regelman earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia and a Master of Business Administration from Olin Graduate Business School at Babson College, Wellesley, MA. He is a recognized author and frequent commentator on digital, customer journeys and transformation.
Alex Golbin
Managing Director, Global Head of Data Services
BLACKROCK
Alex Golbin, CFA, Managing Director, is the Global Head of BlackRock Data Services (BDS). This group provides centralized data support for the Firm, serving the dual mission of supporting BlackRock and BlackRock Solutions (BRS) clients through overseeing Reference Data and Pricing, Portfolio and Benchmark data and analytics, as well as Risk, Analytics and Performance Reporting. BDS teams also manage Client Data, Invoicing and Reporting for Retail and Institutional businesses. BlackRock Data Services ensure comprehensive Quality Assurance and timely delivery of all information relevant to clients and investment professionals, while running a scalable operational process on over $17T of BlackRock and BRS assets. Mr. Golbin is a member of Global Operating Committee.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2005, Mr. Golbin was a Principal in Banc of America Securities' Fixed Income Credit Strategy group. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers Fixed Income Research department. Mr. Golbin joined Lehman Brothers in 1994, and became responsible for producing Global Family of Fixed Income Indices. Previously, Mr. Golbin spent three years as a systems analyst with Siemens Corporation.
Mr. Golbin earned a MS degree in computer science from Hofstra University in 1996.
Sareena Dalla
Global Innovation and Strategy
VANGUARD
Sareena currently oversees Vanguard’s portfolio of next generation products, services and emerging offers developed out of its Innovation lab. There, she has built and lead interdisciplinary and matrix teams of product owners, designers, developers, data scientists, marketers, business SMEs, and go-to-market strategists through the entire product innovation lifecycle: research and discovery, design and experimentation, proof of concept iteration through to product delivery.
Vijay Kasarabada
Managing Director and Global Head of Technology
LAZARD ASSET MANAGEMENT
Vijay Kasarabada is the Global Head of Technology for Lazard Asset Management. He began working in the investment field in 2000. Prior to joining Lazard in 2017, Vijay was a Managing Director within BlackRock's Aladdin product group helping build several aspects of their technology to support the wider investment management process from Front through Middle through the Back Office. Prior to that Vijay worked at large institutions such as Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs (where he started his technology career on Wall Street), helping architect solutions in the Capital Markets Sales and Trading domain, along with a core expertise in the Investment Management domain. Vijay’s responsibilities focus on all aspects of technology that support Lazard Asset Management’s global business operations. Vijay has an MBA in Finance and Business Strategy from Rutgers and a B.S. in Computer Science from Rohilkhand University.
Thomas Mavroudis
US Head of Data Governance, Quality & Training
SCOTIABANK
Thomas Mavroudis is an accomplished Data Management and IT professional with over 20 years of management experience. He is considered a thought leader in the Data Management space and has built the Global Data Quality practices at two of the largest financial institutions. His experience spans managing bank consolidations and conversions, global IT transformation and Innovation initiatives, as well as standing up Centers of Excellence around Data management, Operations and Technology services.
He spearheaded the Basel II Data Quality reporting to the Board of Directors as well as developed targeted Corporate KPI's which were used to manage the Liquidity and Capital Ratio of the firm. He also built the global Big Data Shared service supporting advanced analytics to effect expense reduction and revenue growth.
Peter Serenita
U.S. Chief Data Officer
SCOTIABANK
Peter Serenita is the US Chief Data Officer for Scotiabank, responsible for defining and implementing a data management capability to improve data quality and leverage data for business enablement. He is also the Chairman of the Enterprise Data Management Council, a trade organization advancing data management in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Scotiabank, Peter was the Group Chief Data Officer and was responsible for the data management and analytics practices across all businesses and global functions at HSBC, focusing on improving data consistency across the firm. Previously, Peter was a 28-year veteran of JPMorgan having held several key positions in business and information technology including the role of Chief Data Officer of the Worldwide Securities division.
Risë Zaiser
US Chief Data Officer
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
Steve Hansen
Vice President – Market Data
MORGAN STANLEY
Since 2013, Steve has held the position of market data sourcing manager at Morgan Stanley. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Steve managed market data teams for over 13 years in the Americas for two European firms: Dresdner and Societe Generale. Steve’s career has spanned over 26 years in the market data space, whether working for providers of data (Knight-Ridder) or in investment banking encompassing both institutional and retail operations.
Tarun Sood
Head of Data and Analytics
VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT GROUP
Seasoned leader with 15 years of Data and Analytics experience. Strong Analytics, Cloud and Data background with excellent communication and management skills and a track record of establishing and maintaining successful partnerships with Business and IT executives. Proven execution and performance at the executive level, with an innate ability to implement effective solutions that align with the business.
Steve Listhaus
Head of Market Data Services
WELLS FARGO
The Event in numbers
Key themes
Efficiency
Streamlining processes and increasing operational efficiency in data management and governance
Cost saving
Reducing operational costs and enhancing profitability to gain better margins for market and reference data
Financial Technology
Leveraging on Finance innovations to help mitigate risks and maintain the competitive edge
Driving change for capital markets growth
Have your voice heard at interactive roundtables, learn from peers facing the same challenges at their respective firms, listen to the experts, hear their success stories, and meet 350+ Senior decision makers over 5 networking breaks.
2019 Sponsors
BMC helps customers run and reinvent their businesses with open, scalable, and modular solutions to complex IT problems. Bringing both unmatched experience in optimization and limitless passion for innovation to technologies from mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond, BMC helps more than 10,000 customers worldwide reinvent, grow, and build for the future success of their enterprises, including 92 of the Forbes Global 100.
CUSIP Global Services
CUSIP® is the universally accepted standard for uniquely classifying financial instruments across institutions and exchanges worldwide. The CUSIP system provides identification and descriptive information for over 10 million financial instruments supporting all phases of securities processing and analysis. From the front-office to the back-office, financial professionals rely on the origin and accuracy of CUSIP information to run their businesses smoothly and reliably. For more information, visit www.cusip.com.
AIM Software is the leading provider of data management business applications to the buy-side. Across the world, leading buy-side institutions depend on AIM Software’s GAIN platform to power their systems and operations with high quality data.
We deliver productized solutions for market and reference data management, financial instrument pricing and analytics, corporate actions data, legal entity data, and data consumption monitoring.
Our product-based approach to data management ensures that custom developments are kept to a minimum, resulting in faster projects, rapid ROI, and increased agility for managing business change.
To learn more, visit www.aimsoftware.com.
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) delivers superior analytics, service, content, and technology to help more than 66,000 users see and seize opportunity sooner. We are committed to giving investment professionals the edge to outperform, with fresh perspectives, informed insights, and the industry-leading support of our dedicated specialists. We're proud to have been recognized with multiple awards for our analytical and data-driven solutions and as one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For and a Best Workplace in the United Kingdom and France. Subscribe to our thought leadership blog to get fresh insight delivered daily at insight.factset.com. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/factset.
Founded in 2013, PeerNova combines the expertise of financial industry veterans with the technical aptitude of Silicon Valley innovators to enable financial institutions around the world to solve some of their most prevalent challenges around post-trade processing. PeerNova's Cuneiform® Platform is a blockchain-based Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) solution purpose-built for reducing friction both within and in-between financial institutions that execute high-value transactions in multiple asset classes, involving complex multi-party workflows and large datasets. For more information, please visit https://peernova.com.
SIX Financial Information is a leading global provider of data and value-added services for the wealth and asset management industry. Aggregated directly and in real-time from 1500 worldwide sources - covering all the major trading venues - SIX's database includes reference and market data, corporate actions, regulatory data and pricing information for over 20 million instruments. With offices in 23 countries, SIX combines the advantages of local expertise with global reach to offer financial specialists comprehensive data services for Asset Servicing and Administration, Middle Office, Investment Advisory, Portfolio and Fund Management. www.six-financial-information.com
About SmartStream
SmartStream provides Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions and Managed Services to dramatically transform the middle and back-office operations for financial institutions. Over 1,500 clients, including more than 70 of the World's top 100 banks, 8 of the top 10 asset managers, and 8 of the top 10 custodians rely on SmartStream’s solutions.
SmartStream delivers greater efficiency, automation and control to critical post trade operations including: Reference Data Operations, Trade Process Management, Confirmations and Reconciliation Management, Corporate Actions Processing, Fees and Invoice Management, Cash & Liquidity Management and Compliance Solutions. Used independently or as a suite of solutions and services, clients’ gain a lower cost-per-transaction while reducing operational risk, aiding compliance while improving customer service levels.
For more information about SmartStream visit: www.smartstream-stp.com
Recognized as the data cornerstone enabling the growth of FinTech, Xignite, Inc. makes market data easy. Xignite pioneered the shift of market data to the cloud and is leading the disruption of the market data industry. The Xignite Market Data Cloud platform, hosted in the AWS cloud, allows companies to simplify infrastructure, scale quickly, and innovate faster. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media and software companies including BMO, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, and TIAA, as well as leading FinTech disruptors Betterment, Envestnet|Yodlee, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, SoFi, StockTwits, and Wealthfront. Visit www.xignite.com or follow on Twitter @xignite.
3Forge was founded in 2010 to deliver enterprise-class software powerful and flexible enough to meet the needs of large financial institutions. Their product, AMI, is a consolidated platform that lowers operational and reputational risk for leaders in the electronic space through complex data analysis and workflow management. Today, nearly 20% of US equities flows through their software every day. Clients include multiple Tier 1 Banks, mobile application firms, hedge funds, investment advisors and broker dealers. www.3forge.com
n-Tier is a leader in large scale – high volume data validation and reconciliation processing in the finance industry. The firm offers a uniquely configurable platform for performing all types of data lineage, data completeness, and data accuracy validations across complex infrastructures. Used by some of the most well-known firms in the industry, the platform provides clients with sustainable automated processes which monitor the accuracy and completeness of data flowing across a firm’s infrastructure in near real-time. With specialized experience in the finance industry covering some of the most sensitive regulatory data and reporting and a scalable model with integrated data validations across cloud and in-house systems, n-Tier is the ideal partner for firms that want to implement company wide data management programs
Owlin's news analytics platform provides finance professionals with intelligence on all events relevant to their business, peer environment or portfolio — enabling them to monitor risk, ESG, opportunities and trends from 3 million sources across multiple languages in near real-time. Owlin's news analytics platform is accessible through a customizable user-friendly Dashboard, our API and custom-made widgets which can be integrated in your own platform. Our clients include FitchRatings, ING, KPMG, Philips and Adyen among others. Learn more at www.owlin.com.
West Highland Support Services (WHSS) is a vendor agnostic global FinTech service provider, recognized as an industry authority and thought partner for market data, information, referential data, technology and professional services for over 20 years.
We integrate and manage market data distribution platforms for clients working in the financial services industry. Our suite of Managed Services offerings enables firms to reduce market data expenditures while enhancing system performance and guarding against latency related trading losses.
As a company focused solely on helping its customers maximize ROI, clients benefit from our comprehensive industry wide experience. Pioneers of low cost remote monitoring solutions, WHSS also offers customized solutions through its Professional Services organization, tailored to address unique market data integration and usage challenges.
APN Consulting, Inc. is a progressive workforce solutions company. We deliver talent solutions that help businesses run with greater dexterity and efficiency.
Our three main service offerings are Placement Services, SOWs, & Payroll Services. As a minority owned company, we foster a culture of inclusion and diversity that helps us generate the best ideas and achieve breakthrough innovation for our clients.
We support Fortune 1000 corporations in different verticals and cross-pollinate best practices. Our services are optimized to bring balance to cost, quality, speed, efficiency & effectiveness. A robust technology platform, mature processes, competent & well-trained staff and a high-performance culture are components of our service delivery execution excellence. Our vision is to build long term value for our clients and our company and benchmark a world-class partnership.
We’ve moved firmly into a data driven world. Companies that can get their hands on more data quickly and efficiently have an edge. Crux helps companies achieve this edge.
Today, data delivery and operations is expensive, time consuming and frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be.
Crux helps companies reliably process and onboard the data they need, when they need it, and where they need it. Our cloud platform and expert services connect data users and suppliers so data can flow. This allows our customers to focus on driving productivity and creating better business outcomes.
DBRS is an independent, privately held, globally recognized credit ratings agency with offices in Toronto, New York, Chicago, London, Frankfurt and Madrid. Founded in 1976 in Canada, DBRS is growing rapidly internationally. Our four decades of experience and strong track record are the foundation to seek out new opportunities and to make targeted investments aligned with its core ratings operations. As the world’s fourth-largest ratings agency, DBRS’s approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers’ needs in their local markets, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.
Fitch Solutions provides credit and macro intelligence solutions helping clients to excel at managing their credit risk, gain deeper insights into the debt and fixed income markets, and get comprehensive intelligence about the macroeconomic environment. Our solutions, powered by Fitch Connect, are built on our history of credit, macro and industry expertise to help you make more informed business decisions. Find out more at www.fitchsolutions.com.
TP ICAP is a global firm of professional intermediaries that plays a pivotal role in the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets.
Operating through our core businesses, Tullett Prebon, ICAP, PVM, Mirexa Capital, Tullett Prebon Information, ICAP Information Services and PVM Data Services, we create strong networks in person and through technology. We provide comprehensive analysis and insight into market conditions and long-term trends. We combine data, knowledge and intelligence into contextual insight and commercial guidance. By engaging with our clients, and providing innovative products and services, we enable our clients to transact with confidence, facilitating the flow of capital and commodities around the world, enhancing investment and contributing to economic growth.
Our values of honesty, integrity, respect and excellence underpin everything we do.
Established by the Financial Stability Board in June 2014, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is a not-for-profit organization created to support the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). GLEIF is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. GLEIF services ensure the operational integrity of the Global LEI System. GLEIF also makes available the technical infrastructure to provide, via an open data license, access to the full global LEI repository free of charge to users. GLEIF is overseen by the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee, which is made up of representatives of public authorities from across the globe.
The EDM Council is a non-profit global association created to advance Data Management best practices, standards and education. The 200+ global member firms and more than 10,000 professionals of the EDM Council represent its expanding list of industries including financial services, automotive, manufacturing along with data vendors, technology companies, consultants, academia and regulators supporting those industries
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At our event we will be using Blendology to provide oneTap networking through our conference badges. This technology makes it easy for you to exchange your contact information - a online business card!
You will be able to use it to exchange minimum contact information (Name, Job title and Company name) When you access your profile, you will have the opportunity to add additional contact information, for example photo and mobile phone number, directly or from LinkedIn.
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Testimonials
I got to network with many talented people in the industry thanks to you, and it was overall a great experience.
Jenna J. Ahn, Vice President, Data Science, Corporate & Investment Bank, JP MORGAN
Thank you very much for the panel. It was a kick. Always a fun event. And it was great for business as well.
Stephane Dubois, CEO, XIGNITE (Sponsor)
It was a great conversation and there were some great tidbits that I took away and will bring to my management team.
Manan Rawal, HSBC
The audience
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