Program
Thursday, September 28, 2005
12:00
- 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
12:50
- 1:00 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Speaker: Lucy Hooper, Executive Vice President and Director
of Fixed Income, Davenport & Company LLC
2006 Chair, Regional Advisory Committee
1:00
- 1:30 p.m.
General Session Address:
Hear from co-CEOs Micah Green and Mark Lackritz on the
introduction of the Securities Industry and Financial
Markets Association: the benefits, mission, and goals
and ambitions of your newly formed trade association.
Speakers:
Micah S. Green, President, The Bond Market Association
Marc Lackritz, President, Securities Industry Association
1:30
- 2:30 p.m.
How Federal Legislation is impacting the Capital Markets
Moderator: John Vogt, Executive Vice President, The Bond
Market Association
Panelists:
Shahira Knight, C2 Group
Additional speakers to be announced
2:30
- 2:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:45
- 4:00 p.m.
Federal Regulation of the Capital Markets
Moderator: Leslie Norwood, Vice President, The Bond Market
Association
Panelists: Hal Johnson, Deputy General Counsel, Municipal
Securities Rulemaking Board
Richard Wallace, Market Regulation, NASD
Additional speakers to be announced
4:00
- 5:15 p.m.
Regulatory Focused Breakout Sessions
Three breakout sessions strictly for market participants
to discuss key legal and compliance issues that regularly
affect business at the middle market dealer.
Topics will include:
- Price transparency and the impact on liquidity
- TRACE and Real Time Trade Reporting
- Electronic Trading - suitability, record retention SRO
audits and potential
- SRO convergence Mark-up disclosure
- Additional NASD and MRSR developments
5:30
p.m.
Reception
Reception sponsored by: Reuters
6:00
p.m.
Dinner
7:00
p.m.
Dinner Speaker
Matthew Dowd, Chief Campaign Strategist for Bush - Cheney
2004
How
has the changing communications and political environment
affected business and politics? Why is community and connection
so important these days for leaders? How will these changes
impact the 2006 and 2008 elections? What values are Americans
looking for in their business, political and church leaders?
Hear former Bush chief political strategist and author
(Applebees America) Matthew Dowd discuss these and other
issues of political, cultural and social significance.
Program
Friday, September 29, 2006
7:00 - 8:15 a.m.
Breakfast
8:15
- 9:15 a.m.
GSE Outlook and Overview
Moderator: To be announced
Panelists: Ed Bridge, Manager, Term Funding Desk, FHLB
Office of Finance
Grace Y. Sone, Managing Director, Investor Research &
Communications, Freddie Mac
Additional panelists to be announced
9:15
- 10:30 a.m.
Technology and the Fixed Income Capital Markets
How technology vendors and electronic trading platforms
are working with sell-side dealers to improve best execution,
general connectivity and the automation of real-time trade
reporting across product lines.
Moderator: To be announced
Panelists:
Peter Adams, Director, TradeWeb Retail Francis Romano,
Bloomberg
Tom Vales, Chief Executive Officer,TheMuniCenter
Additional panelists to be announced.
10:30
- 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:45
a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Business Focused Breakout Sessions
Three breakout sessions for industry participants to have
open, dealer to dealer discussions on key business issues
affecting regional and small broker dealers.
Topics will include:
- Electronic trading and choosing the right platform
- The effects of price transparency and how to adjust
- Non-cash products and risk management
- Choosing the right clearing firm
- Diversity on the trading floor
- Hiring, retaining key personnel
- Compensation trends and TBMA's Regional Dealer Compensation
Survey
12:00
p.m.
Conference Adjourns
1:00
p.m.
Golf Tournament (Callaway format)*Please note that times
subject to change as the program develops.