CDS Seminar New York July 1st 2010

Sponsors

Agenda:

08:30 Chairman's Introduction
Dave Olsen, J.P. Morgan

8.40 CDS Market and Regulatory Overview
Wendy Ng, Assistant Vice President to the Financial Infrastructure Department, specializing in OTC Derivatives, New York Federal Reserve

09:10 Trading & Product Innovation
New index products and new trading ideas to encourage the return of liquidity to the market: the outlook for new indices, basis trading, CLNs, CSOs and CDS Options

Moderator: Kapil Khetan, Sapient Global Markets
Panel: Jav Bose, CMA; Manish Kapoor, Westlock Wheelock Capital; Mike Kondas, S&P Indices

10:20 Coffee & Networking
 
10:30 Centralised Clearing 
The prospects for centrally cleared CDS trades and the markets, processes and companies that are likely to emerge strongly.

Moderator: Dave Olsen, J.P. Morgan
Panel: Jennifer Peve, CME; Corry Bazley, ICE; Chris Perkins, Citigroup 
 
11:45 Risk Management
How counterparties should be managing the risk of their CDS portfolios and hedges, and dealing with the less liquid/more complex CDS instruments that cannot be cleared centrally.

Moderator: Richard Shetman, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Panel: Jav Bose, CMA; Jacques Rolfo, Columbia University; Hilmar Schaumann, Deister Capital Management; Stuart Tucker, J.P. Morgan

13:00 Summary and closing remarks
Chris Perkins, Citigroup

13:10 Networking Lunch
Round tables hosted by sponsors and expert speakers to further explore any points from the conference:

Trading

Regulation

Clearing

Risk Management

14.30pm Close
 

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A sample of the 100+ delegates registered to attend as of June 25th: 

Name                                                Company

Keith Chen AIG Vincent Matsui EIM Management (USA) Inc. Michael Nobes Royal Bank of Canada Takayoshi Wiesner Mizuho Corporate Bank Sophia Corona Creditex Eli Shaashua Red Granite Capital Partners Sarah Lippitt Catlin Paul Shedden Catlin Insurance Company John Joshi Capitalfusion Partners Thomas Gagne Desjardins Group Tom Cullum Banquo Credit Managment LLP Rick Weber P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LP Yana Gafouri Trade Wise Capital Gene Yeboah The Yeboah Household Greg Bilse Deutsche Bank Robert McLaughlin Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Matthew Vodola Brigade Capital Management Dylan Pelletier-Ross Brigade Capital Labib Mahfouz Tricadia Capital Management Ken Walker Tigers Court Consulting Muqu Karim Saba Capital Management George Pratt Claren Road Steven Glasser Societe Generale Guy Rinat ELLIOTT ASSOCIATES Pranav Desai Paulson & Co. Louis Liguori James Caird Asset Mgmt Matthew Hatton D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Joseph Valente Balyasny Asset Management Jonathan Ching D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Rachel Capistrano Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd Peter Greenberg Linden Advisors Greg Bilse Deutsche Bank Bhagirath Vora Wellington Management LLP Jason Libby Tannery Brook Partners Eric Stuhlemmer Athilon Evelyn Cho Christofferson, Robb & Company Wais Baryalai Christofferson Robb & Co. Waqas Chaudhry Christofferson Robb & Company David Yearwood Putnam Investments Martin Nance Quadrant Structured Investment Advisers Monel Amin Citi Elizabeth Kim Citi Jeffrey Hinkle EJF Capital Rebecca Manning EJF Capital LLC Lillian MacEachern NYFRB Michael Pasternak PASTAGRINI LLC Peter Kambeseles Standard & Poor's Antonio Davila GBM Grupo Bursatil Mexicano James Lau Jessica McAnneny BlackRock Sahil Arora Mizuho Corporate Bank James Bailey S&P Indices John Ladigoski Credit Suisse Alternative Capital, Inc. Sulei Ahmad-Suleiman Scotiabank Christian Glover Wilson Craigmore Capital Mike Dickson Loomis Sayles Myron Glucksman Myron Glucksman Consulting Mari Mari Federal Reserve Bank of New York Kabir Daya Citi Capital Advisors John Durkin GE Capital Corp Madeleine Sorell York Capital John Richardson Ionic Capital Management LLC Bryan Knoepp Duff & Phelps LLC Sophia Xiao Fore Research & Management, LP

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