4:00-4:30PM    Registration/Networking

4:30-6:00PM    Issue Brief: Real-Time Reference Data: Oxymoron or New Reality?

6:00-8:00PM    Holiday Party

Issue Brief: Real-Time Reference Data: Oxymoron or New Reality?
Traditionally, financial information has been divided into two distinct and separate camps: real-time market data and static reference data. Today's changing environment -- new investment strategies and financial instruments, evolving regulatory and risk requirements, and rapid advancements in technology - has blurred the distinctions between these two worlds as reference data is needed (and delivered) more quickly and more frequently.

This Issue Brief will focus on the increasing convergence of real-time market data and reference data and will address these questions:

• What is driving the need for more timely reference data?
• What are the operational changes in delivery of data?
• Who is receiving these new deliveries and for what purpose(s)?
• Who is supplying these new deliveries and how?
• Which data vendors are on the "cutting edge"?
• Will firms eventually utilize a single in-house data resource?

Moderator: Matt Bastian, Director - Product Development,  Standard and Poor's

Panelists:
Peter Giordano, Executive Director - Equities, CIBC
Martijn Groot, Head of Product Management, Asset Control
Greg Smith, President & CEO, Cicada
Robin Simpson, Managing Director - Reference Data, Interactive Data Corporation
John White, Principal of Data Management, State Street Global Advisors

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