FISD Rising Stars: Have Skills, Will Travel? The Experience of Moving (or Not) for Your Job

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The ability to work from home has expanded the talent pool available companies willing to be flexible and likewise has created opportunities for employees to take new jobs without moving, or to move somewhere new without changing jobs.

Attend this session to hear firsthand from market data professionals who have gone fully remote and moved to a new place and keeping the same job or started a job at a distant site without moving, and those who have uprooted their lives to change cities (or even countries) as part of assuming a new role. Led by a moderator with experience in hiring strategy, this session will pair personal experiences with insights on how the employment landscape is transforming.

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LIBOR No More. What Rates Will Asia Use for Lending, and Adjustments?

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LIBOR – and regional IBOR rates – have helped determine the cost of all sorts of global borrowing from mortgages and credit cards to interest-rate swaps. Over the last decade LIBOR/IBOR benchmarks have been seen as outdated.  Global / regional Central Banks (CBs) and Monetary Authorities (MAs) have been working to develop benchmarks that are a truer reflection of the cost of capital and based on actual transactions.  This session will explore how the new benchmarks change the data requirement and analytic landscapes in Asia/Pacific.

  • Have Asia CBs/MAs, institutions and end users come to consensus on IBOR alternatives; what are the new regional benchmarks – what do they reflect?
  • What are the complications in calculation for adjustments and analytics for existing contracts?
  • Are (new) regional loan/derivative agreements using a single or multiple benchmarks?
  • How do these benchmarks make it more difficult to predict payments?

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Industry Greats on Big Data: Fireside Chat with Irene Aldridge and Jon Neitzell

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This intimate fireside chat features Irene Aldridge, author of “Big Data Science in Finance” leading a thorough conversation with Jon Neitzell, FISD’s 2022 Alternative Data Council Fellow, Founder and Managing Partner of Anduril Partners, and former Chief Data Officer at Goldman Sachs Asset Management Fundamental Equities.   They discuss how different areas of the financial information industry are utilizing big data, opportunities, pitfalls and trends.

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Empowering the Quant with Faster Experimentation and Application of AI and ML

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Big data and alternative data have heightened complexity and level of effort required by quantitative analysts (quants) to manage data. In this webinar, learn how quants can tackle their three main challenges: Data acquisition and ingestion, Experimentation and modeling and Interpretation and push to production. Discover how Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners can automate data discovery, transformation, and strategy integration processes so you can move faster and get more out of your data.

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Handing the Keys of the Market Data Kingdom to the next Generation – an FISD ‘Rising Stars’ Activity

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“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”  – Pearl S. Buck.

Nothing ever stands still; change is the only constant in life. What’s happening with the generations within our market data industry? Where are the next leaders? Let’s hear from the newest entrants and let’s plan for the future. It’s about the recruitment and nurturing of new talent.

We hear from some of that newest of new talent – how are they changing things up and we explore what they seek from some of us in the middle of our market data careers or those even nearing the end.

  • Some ‘new’ talents share their experiences, expectations and aspirations – thus far
  • Those more advanced in their careers discuss recruitment and nurturing.

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