Join Linedata and TABB Group for a complimentary web seminar featuring a snapshot on the rapidly changing Canadian equity landscape for 2012.

Data and Organizational Impacts of Real Time Reporting
How do the latest rules impact your business?

Join us for the first in a series of live webcasts discussing key Dodd-Frank rule attributes that will impact most market participants - business process and data implications - and some paths to better assure compliance.
Kevin McPartland, a principal at TABB Group, will join our discussion sharing his perspective and the latest industry insights. An often requested speaker at a wide range of industry conferences, Kevin has also provided testimony in 2011 to the U.S. Senate's Banking Committee in June and the U.S. Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in March.
Leading our discussion are Sid Jacobson, partner, and Nathan Yeager, senior manager, of SunGard Global Services' energy consulting practice - both specialists in energy and derivatives markets.

Are you a developer, development manager, architect, or business stakeholder interested in learning how complex event processing (CEP) technology and visual programming can transform the way you do your job? If so don’t miss this opportunity to join developers from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, GAIN Capital, and Datasports for an interactive and in-depth look at how CEP technology and visual programming will empower your development team. Topics to be discussed include: - The adoption curve for implementing and getting up to speed with CEP and visual programming - The breadth of applications being developed visually using CEP and the value of those applications for the business - How visual programming improves time-to-market for application development and facilitates communication between the business and IT - Best practices for on boarding CEP technology and visual programming

As the industry moves through this 1099 tax reporting season, it is essential that we look ahead at the Fixed Income and Options reporting requirements on the horizon. These complex security types will undoubtedly create additional compliance challenges and require substantial technology modifications to existing systems. Join Artie Wolk, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at SunGard Wall Street Concepts and Cameron Routh, Senior Vice President, Strategic Products at Scivantage® as they share their thoughts on this tax reporting season and offer critical insight into the proposed regs for Fixed Income & Options. This interactive, one-hour webinar will take you through the major provisions of the proposed requirements and offer observations on key areas that will have an immediate impact on your customers, and your business.

The aim of the CAS-WG is to debate and discuss all aspects of clearing and settlement infrastructures and processes. The organisation and operation will be similar to the MiFID Joint Working Group and its Subject Groups that operated in the build-up to the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)[1], with the intention of bringing together the top industry standards bodies, trade associations, infrastructures, investment firms and companies involved in Clearing and Settlement. The CAS-WG will provide an opportunity for open discussion and debate amongst senior market practitioners and service providers on issues affecting Clearing and Settlement. More importantly, the aim is to create multiple specialist groups that will work on specific areas of interest – standards, technologies, reference data, custodial services, etc – between each of the main plenary meetings of the CAS-WG. Specialist Subject Groups The subject groups and their subject headings will be determined at the inaugural meeting on 29th February. Anyone who wishes to propose a group, lead a group or be a member of one of the groups can volunteer their participation and input at the inaugural meeting. The subject groups will be facilitated through support from the Realisation Group and any organisation that wishes to be involved can propose their support before, during or after the inaugural meeting. We believe that these subject groups are particularly important today as Clearing & Settlement, and in particular Clearing, will be massively impacted by new regulations being drafted and implemented across the world such as Basel III, Dodd-Frank, the Vickers Report and the MiFID II. The aim of the subject groups is to provide specific input to the regulatory bodies – including the FSA, its successor bodies the PRA and CBA, and Michel Barnier’s team in the European Commission – on the business and technology implications of implementing the regulations in draft and final form, with the intention of ensuring these regulations are practical, appropriate and effective. The output of the subject groups therefore will be actions that are clearly practical about the details of the impact of new regulatory developments upon clearing and settlement operations, infrastructures, standards and technologies. Meetings The first meeting will be held at BT’s offices at 81 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7AJ on the afternoon of February 29th where we will have four panels discussing: Volker/Vickers/MiFID II and impacts on post-trade operations and IT, particularly with regard to OTC Derivatives and Clearing T2S – problems of change and implementation for settlement Giovannini Group Recommendations, Innovation & Technology – what progress has been made? Standards in Post-trade operations Registration starts from 13:30 and the first meeting will begin at 14:00 with panellists from clearing and settlement infrastructures, investment firms, standards bodies and industry associations and more attending. After the meeting on 29th February we expect to have quarterly plenary meetings thereafter to update members on the sub-group activities. There will also be regular subject group meetings, the number of which will be dependent upon the outcome of the first meeting. Membership of the CAS-WG We aim to run the CAS-WG so that attendance and involvement is completely free and open. It is also aimed to be inclusive of all participants in Clearing and Settlement operations. Attendees and active members are expected to be from all parts of the financial industry – buy side, sell side, exchanges, CCPs, CSDs, standards bodies, solutions providers, technology providers, telecommunications, consultancies, law firms, accounting firms and more.