CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton to Speak at FTF Event

Nov. 8, 2012 - PRLog -- Nov. 8, 2012 - New York, NY – Financial Technologies Forum (FTF), provider of executive level conferences to senior operations professionals and publisher of FTF News, a free online news service featuring in-depth coverage of securities operation and financial IT management issues, is pleased to announce that CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton will be delivering the afternoon keynote address at FTF’s 7th Annual Derivatives Operations & Processing Conference (http://www.ftfnews.com/2012_7th_Annual_OTC_Derivatives_Ops_Processing) in New York City at the Sentry Centers on Nov. 14, 2012.

Commissioner Chilton’s address will focus on the current state of OTC regulation and the “importance of appropriate regulation with regard to over-the-counter (OTC) swaps.” Earlier this week, FTF News editor, Eugene Grygo, caught up with the commissioner in a Q&A regarding his thoughts on how the recent U.S. presidential election might affect the progress of Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms, including the overhaul for over-the-counter (OTC) swaps.

Chilton has had nearly three decades of high-level experience in the U.S. federal government. He has worked on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, and has served in the executive branch during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. He joined the CFTC in 2007 after he was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U. S. Senate. He was re-nominated in 2009 by President Barack Obama and re-confirmed by the Senate.

In addition to commissioner Chilton, FTF has secured an impressive line-up of industry experts to speak at the event.

The first keynote address of the event in the morning will be delivered by Clifford Lewis, executive vice president and head of State Street's eExchange Business.

Other highlighted speakers include John W. McPartland, senior policy advisor for the financial markets group of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; David Olsen, global head of OTC clearing, J.P. Morgan; James Wallin, senior vice president from AllianceBernstein; Jason Swankoski, executive director, OTC derivatives clearing at Morgan Stanley; Carolyn Mitchell, first vice president, business development at the Options Clearing Corp., (OCC); Camillo D'Orazio, vice president at Delaware Investments; Neil Monaghan, director, global head of futures & OTC clearing strategic business initiatives at Citi; and Ila Eckhoff, managing director for BlackRock.

Additional topics to be discussed at the event include:

·      Meet the OTC Pioneers

·      Collateral Management or Collateral Damage?

·      The New OTC Supply Chain

·      The Volcker Rule, OTC Derivatives and Too Big to Fail

·      OTC Means Extreme Data Management

·      The Human Factor: Time to Staff Up?

·      Build or Buy an OTC Trading Architecture?

The Sentry Centers facility is located at 810 Seventh Ave. between 52nd and 53rd Streets in New York, NY.

Current sponsors include State Street, PricewaterhouseCoopers, TriOptima, The OCC, SS&C, Deloitte, Electra, LCH.Clearnet and Prospect33.  For additional information on sponsorship, contact Jett Schilling at 646-395-6342.

To view the complete agenda, visit: http://www.ftfnews.com/2012_7th_Annual_OTC_Derivatives_Ops_Processing

FTF is offering complimentary passes to senior level operations and technology professionals of banks and buy-side and sell-side firms.  Those who qualify can register online: https://www.ftfnews.com/OTC_Derivatives/ Restrictions apply.  

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