FISD Membership

Registration & Networking

Housekeeping & Introduction

Facilitator:

Scott Cooper, FIA, FISD Asia-Pac Regional Representative & Partner, Saquish Partners

Host Welcome - ASX

The Reference Data Utility - the drive to cleaner data and reporting

With the continuous evolution of Regulatory Reporting across the globe, there is a growing need for firms to improve their referential data in order to improve their STP and regulatory reports.

• What are the challenges facing organisations?
• Bridging the gap through a utility
• How will this support MiFiD II and SI’s?

If time allows there will be a demonstration.

Presenter:

Neil McNaught, Account and Business Development Manager, Oceania, SmartStream

ASX Analytics Webstore: market proposition, content and technology

The ASX has launched services on its new data analytics platform, dubbed ASX DataSphere.  ASX DataSphere brings together ASX and third party data to drive a range of products that can be purchased through a web-based store. ASX as well as third parties will offer datasets for analysis by DataSphere customers. Data providers will have access to a range of ingestion, curation, discovery and security services.  The platform will offer customers access to a range of tools via a secure workspace, with compute and storage to perform analysis provided by ASX. The presenter will discuss - and demonstrate:

• Business problems and challenges in the financial markets 
• Features and benefits of the ASX DataSpere platform
• The commercial model

Presenter:

Mark Monfort, Business Development manager, Data Analytics, ASX

Data Sphere: the customer motivations and business model

• What are some of the data challenges you’re working with day to day?
• How will the DataSphere platform be leveraged internally?
• Can you tell us more about the Digital transformation that the ASX is undertaking?
• What are some of the AI works that you’ve done internally?
• What were the challenges you faced with ASX datasets and getting them ready for analytics?

Interviewee:

Dan Chesterman, Chief Information Officer, ASX

Digital Rights Management: what is it, how could it impact information providers and data vendors?

Sell-side consumers and data vendors have been working on a Digital Rights Management (DRM) capability that can turn a data licensing agreement into rules - and code.

• How does this work: legally, technically and technologically?
• Is this new?  Are the technologies proprietary or open-source?
• Who is embracing DRM; how/when will it be introduced; where?

Presenter:

Scott Cooper, FIA, FISD Asia-Pac Regional Representative & Partner, Saquish Partners

FISD Update

Facilitator:

David Anderson, FIA, Program Director, FISD/Atradia

Networking Reception