Singapore Agenda

13:00-13:30

Registration

13:30-14:45

General Session

Breakout Sessions

Asset Management

What Happens Next in Asset Management?
Leading investment firms today face great challenges in areas such as increasing operational efficiency, coping with new compliance requirements, and managing growth opportunities. Join us as we discuss the future of the asset management industry in a highly turbulent market.
Lisa O’Connor, Head Asset Management, Asia Pacific, SWIFT  

Remaining Agile through Automation
Today’s companies must constantly and rapidly adapt to changing rules and regulations, requiring a higher degree of automation. How are companies keeping up with requirements while still conducting day-to-day business? Join us to find the answer to this question and learn how Asset Arena Investment Accounting can help automate your back-office and manage your day-to-day investment operations.
Tony Warren, vice president, Institutional Asset Management

Operational Efficiency and Control via Automated Reconciliations
Managing and growing the assets of their institutional and retail customers has become a challenging business for asset managers globally. Join this session to hear Mr. Charles Koh from Temasek Holdings share his experience on how he achieved operational efficiency and control through using automated reconciliations.
Charles Koh, general manager, Temasek Holdings 

Core Leasing and Asset Based Lending

Trends in Leasing/Asset Based Lending Business and its Challenges
Most businesses face constraints in obtaining funding which has further exacerbated due to the recent economic crisis with the banks cutting back on lending. However, this has brought about immense opportunities for Asset Based Lending (ABL) activities, both for lenders and the recipient corporates. Join this session as Dennis Firmansjah from the Asian Leasing & Finance Association share his views.
Dennis Firmansjah, ceo, PT IFS Capital Indonesia

Dealing with Challenges and the Opportunities Ahead – Reducing Operating Costs 
Leasing and asset finance business have become very complex as they are supported by disjointed, fragmented and archaic systems. This limits the management’s visibility & control of their businesses, enhances risks that leads to operational inefficiencies. Join this session as SunGard shares innovative ideas on managing operating costs and delivering added value to your business.
Shobhit Sharma, regional sales manager, SunGard

Corporate Liquidity Management

Managing Liquidity: Best Practices for Improving Cash Flow
In today’s economic environment it is vital to be actively managing and unlocking the value of your organisation’s cash. Learn how efficient bank account structures coupled with efficient treasury practices can drive liquidity and risk management processes and improve business decisions.
Kristjan Drake, senior vice president, Global Product Solutions, Bank of America
Kate Porter, product director, AvantGard and Ambit, SunGard

Risk & Compliance: Treasury’s Role in This Evolving Environment
As corporations move towards meeting the stringent demands of both external and internal policies, we take a look into how technology can play a vital role. Learn how implementing controls and checkpoints, coupled with visibility of data, leads towards reducing risk and enhancing compliance.
Shane Roberts, director, FMB Solutions

The Changing Payments Landscape: SWIFT’s Perspective on This Evolving World
As a global member-owned co-operative through which corporate customers, banks and securities firms can exchange financial information, SWIFT will share it’s perspective on the changing payments landscape and infrastructure in Asia.
Caroline Lacocque, Head Corporate Connectivity, Asia Pacific, SWIFT

Global Trading

What Happens Next in Financial Trading? Investing in Frontier & Emerging Markets
Which new markets are likely to be of most interest in 2009/10, and what information, access, risk or other special factors can we expect to be involved in trading there?

Which solutions should brokerage and investment houses implement to seize these opportunities and best answer investor requirements?
Daniel Lee, business director, Electronic Execution Business, DBS Vickers Securities
TK Yap, executive director, OCBC Securities

What Happens Next in Financial Trading? Achieving Straight Through Processing
Implementing STP solutions, from trading floors to integrated pre-trade and post-trade risk management, to respond to current electronic trading challenges. Come and learn what solutions can help investment firms improve risk control and achieve STP all along the trade flow, and therefore reduce the cost and complexity associated with trading multiple asset classes.
Panel Session
Moderator: Richard Zhu, executive vice president, Sales & Marketing SE Asia & India, Global Trading, SunGard
Azura Azman, head of equities, RHB Group
Henry Jusuf, managing director at the Equity Capital Markets Group, PT Trimegah Securities Tbk
TK Yap, executive director, OCBC Securities
Daniel Lee, business director, Electronic Execution Business, DBS Vickers Securities

Commodity Trading & Risk Management: Staying Ahead of the Curve
As trading in bilateral OTC commodity contracts has shifted to exchange traded futures and cleared contracts, there is an increasing need for real time risk management for commodity traders. Kiodex will examine the changing landscape of commodity trading and discuss how to best meet the challenges and demands of real time commodity risk management.
Rodney Greenwald, svp, Sales and Market Data, Kiodex, SunGard 

Changes in Singapore Regulatory Compliance
This session addresses the anticipated increase in regulatory scrutiny as a ripple effect of the economic crisis. The focus is on identification and management of insider trading and other conflicts of interests resulting from employee personal dealing, and client suitability through risk profiling.
Chris Aronis, svp, Protegent, SunGard

Automated, Rules Based Compliance Surveillance and Detection
This session explores the deficiencies in compliance processes, provides insight into the benefits of rules based, automated tool adoption. The focus will be on automating the surveillance of employee personal dealing, ensuring client suitability via risk profiling, and analysing brokerage transactions for AML concerns.
Mike Lacson, director of pre-sales, Protegent, SunGard