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September 25 - 26, 2008
Four Seasons Las Colinas Resort
Dallas, TX |
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- Bob McTeer, former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Caroline Baum, Columnist, Bloomberg News
- Saskia Scholtes, U.S. Financial Services Correspondent, Financial Times
- 2008 in Review - Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Dealers
- Regulation of the Fixed Income Markets
- Preparing for and Surviving a FINRA Examination
- Technology and Fixed Income Market Structure
- Municipal and Taxable Breakouts
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Thursday, September 25 |
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| 9:00am | Registration Opens |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Roundtable on Fixed Income Regulation
Hear from senior regulators and market professionals on fixed income regulatory issues including trade reporting, NIIDS implementation, ARS, record keeping and financial reporting and more. |
| Moderator: | Don Winton
Chief Operating Officer
Crews & Associates |
| Speakers: | David Shillman
Associate Director, Office of Market Supervision
Securities and Exchange Commission
Hal Johnson
Deputy General Counsel
MSRB
Mac Northam
Director, Fixed Income Regulation
FINRA
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| 12:00 - 1:30pm | Lunch with Speaker
Welcoming Remarks |
| Speaker: | Mike Nicholas
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Regional Bond Dealers Association |
| The Credit Crunch and Domestic Capital Markets
Hear from the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on a number of topics including the state of the economy, interest rates, actions by the Fed and what to expect going forward. How are domestic capital markets changing and what opportunities and challenges are being created? |
| Speaker: | Bob McTeer
Former President
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
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| 1:30 - 2:30pm | General Session
The Year of Living Dangerously - 2008 Fixed Income Year in Review
Subprime, lack of liquidity, billions in right downs and fears of recession and inflation. How has 2008 evolved and specifically how has it created opportunities and challenges for regional dealers? And most important, what does the future hold? |
| Moderator: | Michael Decker
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Regional Bond Dealers Association
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| Speakers: |
Caroline Baum
Columnist
Bloomberg News
Jeff Chapman
Senior Vice President and Head of Fixed Income Capital Markets
Fifth Third Securities, Inc.
Howard Potter
Managing Director
Capstone Asset Management Company
Jim Vogel
Executive Vice President
FTN Financial
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| 2:30 - 3:00pm | Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:00 - 4:00pm | Municipal and Taxable Breakout Sessions
Municipal Breakout
Current conditions, opportunities and trends in the municipal bond market. Hear from municipal bond professionals on the year in munis and what to expect for the remainder of 2008. |
| Moderator: | Tom Doe
Founder and CEO
Municipal Market Advisors
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| Speakers: | Thalia Meehan
Portfolio Manager, Tax-Exempt Group
Putnam Investments
Alan Polsky
Senior Vice President
Dougherty & Company LLC
Gail Sussman
Group Managing Director, Public Finance
Moody's
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| | Taxable Breakout
What are the funding expectations of GSE's in the fourth quarter of 2008, how have they been affected by the credit crunch and what's the outlook going forward? How can regional dealers add value and increase business with GSEs? |
| Moderator: | Marc Porter
Partner
G.X. Clarke & Co.
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| Speakers: | Peter Connor
Vice President - Finance
Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation
Sean Forde
Director, Debt Funding
Freddie Mac
Brian Kalish
Vice President, Global Investor Relations
FHLBanks - Office of Finance
Jim Zucco
Director, Long-Term Funding
Fannie Mae
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| 4:00 - 4:15pm | Networking and Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 4:15 - 5:30pm | Roundtable Breakout Sessions
These informal roundtables are led by dealers and are intended to be open, interactive discussions on key business, market and regulatory issues.
Institutional Breakouts (2 rooms)
Retail Breakout (1 room)
Suggested topics:
- Trading in non U.S. dollar dominated bonds
- Discussion of the mortgage market
- ARS - retail and institutional
- Regionals access to new issue taxable product
- Retail structured products
- Trading between regionals
- Alternative trading systems for retail
- "Pass" rates on firm retail orders
- Insurance coverage on retail accounts
- Retail due diligence
- Standardization of disclosure for trust preferreds
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| 5:30 - 6:30pm | Reception in Exhibit Hall |
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| 6:30pm | Dinner |
| Speakers: | Mark Medford
President & Chief Executive Officer
Vining-Sparks IBG
Chair, Regional Bond Dealers Association
Saskia Scholtes
U.S. Financial Services Correspondent
Financial Times
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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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| 7:00 - 8:00am | Breakfast in Exhibit Hall |
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| 8:00 - 9:15am | General Session
Technology, Electronic Trading and Evolvoing Fixed Income Market Structure |
| Moderator: | Eric Vos
Vice President, Fixed Income Trading
Wells Fargo Brokerge Services LLC
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| Speakers: | Peter Adams
Director
Tradeweb Retail
Tony Miscimarra
President
BondDesk Trading
Marshall Nicholson
Director
Knight BondPoint
Vito Finetti
Manager, TOMS STP Solutions
Bloomberg
Richard Schiffman
Business Development
MarketAxess
Tom Vales
Chief Executive Officer
TheMuniCenter
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| 9:15 - 9:45am | Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 9:45 - 10:45am | General Session
How to Prepare for a FINRA Examination?
What is the regulatory environment post NYSE and NASD merger and how have exams changed? What are FINRA's expectations hear from regional dealers on recent exams. |
| Moderator: | David Minnick
General Counsel
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated
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| Speakers: |
Guy Genovese
Senior Finance Coordinator
FINRA
Harold Gladney
SVP & Head of Fixed Income Compliance
Vining Sparks
Ben Indek
Partner
Morgan Lewis
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| 10:45 - 11:45am | General Session
Politics and the Domestic Capital Markets.
What is the legislative and regulatory environment in Washington, DC and how will the fall elections affect the domestic capital markets?
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| Moderator: | Michael Decker
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Regional Bond Dealers Association
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| Speakers: | Micah Green
Partner
Patton Boggs LLP
Richard Roberts
Principal
Roberts Raheb & Gradler LLC
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| 11:45am | Closing Remarks
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| Speakers: | Michael Decker
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Regional Bond Dealers Association
Ken Williams
President & CEO
Stone & Youngberg LLC
Vice Chair, Regional Bond Dealers Association
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