ISDA Conferences

International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA®)

Introduction to Operations Training Course

June 9, 2008
Marina Mandarin Singapore
SINGAPORE

PROGRAM AGENDA

8:00 AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50 AM	Welcoming Remarks Way Yee Bay, Director of Policy, ISDA
9:00 AM	Life of a Trade Overview of the lifecycle of a derivatives trade and discussion of the roles of an Operations department and the various approaches to organising job functions. Andrew Adams, Associate Director, Barclays Capital
9:45 AM	ISDA Documentation Architecture Introduction to the ISDA Documentation Architecture with a focus on the Master Agreement and product specific documentation. Jacqueline M.L. Low, Senior Legal Counsel, ISDA
10:45 AM	Morning Break
11:15 AM	Trade Capture to Confirmation Step-by-step review of sample deal ticket including review of key terms, discussion of the financial implications of deal ticket errors, transferring deal ticket information onto the confirmation and issuing the confirmation. Discussion of impact of market events such as unscheduled holidays or exchange disruption. Sheila Thangavelu, Executive Director, Operations, Morgan Stanley
12:30 PM	Rates Sets and Settlement A review of rate sets and settlement calculations and customer notification procedures, including tracking and implementing changes. Nagaraja R. Shenoy, Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Operations, Citibank N.A, Singapore
1:15 PM	Luncheon
2:15 PM	Performance Standards and Technological Solutions Overview of current trends affecting derivatives operations including industry targets and automation and straight-through-processing initiatives. The session will include an introduction to the Operations Benchmarking Survey and Financial product Markup Language (FpML®) standard for the derivatives industry. Way Yee, Bay, Director of Policy, ISDA
3:00 PM	Afternoon Break
3:30 PM	Novations A brief overview of Novation and its various forms. The session will also explain the Novation process and the ISDA Novation protocol. Jacqueline M.L. Low, Senior Legal Counsel, ISDA
4:00 PM	Collateral as a Credit Risk Mitigation Tool An explanation of collateral, credit risk and collateral management. The session will provide an overview of the collateral process, and will study the benefits and challenges of collateralising positions. Andrina Tan, Associate Director, Global Collateral & Margin Management, UBS Investment Bank
5:00 PM	Conference Concludes

Agenda is subject to change

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CONFERENCE VENUE: Marina Mandarin Singapore, 6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square, Singapore 039594
Telephone: 65 6845 1000

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