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• How to Trust and Verify Recs Data• Recs and the FCA’s Policy

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AGENDA – Tuesday, October 11, 2016Breakfast and Check-in start at 8:15am

9:00am Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15am How to Trust and Verify Recs Data Financial services firms face ongoing demands for the reconciliation of their operations and for regulatory requirements. Accurate, independent data is at the heart of these efforts. A key area of concern for many firms is staying on top of the ever-changing data about individual, corporate and institutional clients. In addition, data integrity can often be at the mercy of manual or semi-automated systems that must pull information from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, external data that is not integrated with other systems, and internal data stuck in silos.• What is the best enterprise-wide approach for a firm to extract, transform and load

accurate data for reconciliation? • What are the best practices for ensuring data integrity when gathering information for

calculations, exception reports, compliance and more?• What are the data integrity issues caused by onboarding?• What is the best strategy for reconciling increasing volumes of data?• How should firms ensure the accuracy of reference data? • And, is there a need for centralized producers of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and Unique

Trade Identifiers (UTIs) to help firms facilitate reconciliation? Panelists: Duncan Wheatley, Managing Director, Watson Wheatley Financial Systems

William Gilson, Head of Operations, Babson Capital ManagementMark Williamson, Reconciliation Project Manager, Jefferies & Company

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10:30am Networking Break with Exhibitors

Will Blockchain/DLT Cause a Recs Revolution? Reconciliation is hitting its stride in post-trade operations but there is a disruptor on the horizon that may be paving the way for a revolution.Leading the charge is the crypto-currency Blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) phenomenon that could potentially replace reconciliation as we know it. However, not everyone is agreed that a revolution is on the horizon.• What is the possibility that current recs practices could be rendered obsolete by DLT-

based systems? • What are potential links between DLT-based recs and cloud-based recs systems and other

operations? • What is the current status of key industry Blockchain/DLT projects? • Will there be DLT-based recs offerings and when will they become available? • Are there current offerings that could deliver results now before Blockchain/DLT solutions

emerge? Moderator: Virginie O’Shea, Research Director, Aite Group

Panelists: Bill Blythe, Global head of Business Development, GreshamTBD, FIS Global

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11:45am Can Recs Bring Quality Control to Transaction Reporting? Firms are under pressure to meet the transaction reporting demands of many regulatory authorities and mandates, including the CFTC, MiFID II/R, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) reforms, the Regulation on Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT) and other requirements in Asia-Pacific and North America. Each has different completeness and accuracy requirements that cover multiple instruments such as equity and debt securities, exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives, (instruments based on foreign exchange rates, interest rates, credit and equities), and exchange-traded and over-the-counter commodities.• What are the major steps in applying reconciliation to meet these multiple requirements?• Will multiple teams be required to reconcile transaction reporting?• What are the quality control benefits of applying reconciliation to transaction reporting?• What are the risks of not applying reconciliation techniques to transaction reporting? • What are the challenges of performing reconciliation between front- and middle-office

systems and multiple trade repositories?Panelists: Marc McCarthy, Associate Director, AutoRek

Chad Giussani, Head of Transaction Reporting Compliance, Standard Chartered Bank

12:30pm Lunch

1:30pm The Recent Rules of Reconciling Client MoneyThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued PS 14/09 to amend key parts of the client money and custody asset (CASS) rules. The PS 14/09 changes, rolled out in phases throughout last year, are causing U.K. authorities to hold major auditing firms to higher standards, which means that firms must have data integrity, with a renewed focus on formatting and accuracy. Firms must also reconcile more instruments and key segments of the post-trade lifecycle, making manual processing virtually impossible, given the greater quantities of data.• How is PS 14/09 changing the policies for terms of business, client disclosures, client

money and assets? • How should firms revamp reconciliation systems so that they conform to the new rules

via PS 14/09 and CASS?• Should firms consider more data fields to facilitate the greater reconciliation demands?• How should firms strategize for the new, more contentious relationships between

themselves and the Big Four auditors as they conduct more statutory and client money audits?

• And how should firms speed up their reconciliation and related analysis? Panelists: Karen Bond, Director, Walbrook Partners Limited

Janet Wynn, Chief Operating Officer, Thomas MurrayNisha Madhvani ACA, Managing Director, Rosediem Consulting

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2:45pm Networking Break with Exhibitors

3:15pm Picking the Right Recs System for Your NeedsVendors have been aggressive in developing new and varied systems and software offerings for reconciliation to meet the needs of many sectors, including banks, hedge funds, asset managers, brokers and other market participants. This growth in offerings comes as many financial services firms are at a tipping point when they have to move away from error-prone manual systems that can no longer meet the new demands for recs. The range of wares include on-premise reconciliation systems, recs services hosted in the cloud or completely outsourced solutions. To say the least, firms have to sort through multiple, key differentiators among vendor systems, including data gathering, matching, real-time reconciliation, exception management, client support, and integration with current systems. • How are new types of reconciliation such as those for fees and collateral being

automated? • How much of a risk do manual systems pose to a firm’s reputation?• What are the market and regulatory drivers and operational benefits that firms have to

consider when changing systems?• What is the best strategy for finding an enterprise-wide reconciliation system?• What are the benefits and disadvantages of cloud-based solutions?• How should firms gauge the time-frames and costs of adopting new systems? Moderator: Himanshu Jain, ETD & OTC Derivatives Reconciliations Architect, Bank of America

Merrill Lynch Panelists: Robin Hasson - Senior Product Manager, Reconciliations, SmartStream

Jeremy Coombs, Director, UBSNeil Bradford, Senior Solutions Architect for Financial Control, Fiserv

Brian Williams, Director Operations Control, Barclays

4:05pm Portfolio Reconciliation for OTC DerivativesPortfolio reconciliation for over-the-counter (OTC) derivative instruments covers an area of great concern, given the many regulatory reforms underway in Europe.OTC derivative counterparties need to identify trade discrepancies and trade exceptions, manage collateral and margin, and to facilitate electronic interfaces to resolve reconciliation problems.Financial services firms also need to ensure that all parties to a transaction have synchronized books and records and that novations, amendments and related activities are accurately gathered and recorded.• Should portfolio reconciliation begin with the valuation phase of the OTC derivative

contract?• What are the recs vulnerabilities of the lifecycle of a derivative transaction such as

processing, settlement, and confirmation?• What are the recs challenges of working with clients and third-party providers on

operational and margining issues?• How do the complexities of derivatives pricing and counterparty risk impact the

reconciliation process?• And what are the best ways for risk and recs mitigation for non-centrally cleared OTC

derivatives? Moderator: David Brown, Head of Derivatives Operations, Royal London Asset Management

4:55pm Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

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