Day one programme - Wednesday 27 June

Day one programme

Day two programme

8:20am

Registration

9:00am

Chairman's opening remarks

9:10am

Keynote address: Key elements of the Dodd-Frank Act

  • Brief overview of the Dodd-Frank Act and its intended objectives
  • Key elements of the Act
    • Resolution plans ("living wills")
    • Designation of financial companies as systemically important
    • OTC derivatives
  • Potential implications for foreign financial institutions

9:50am

Panel discussion: Role of CCPs

  • Are CCPs adequately prepared to manage new risks
  • Confronting the operational issues
  • Addressing the lack of historical pricing data and liquidity
  • Do regulations need to be revisited

10:40am

Morning coffee break

11:10am

Presentation: Investing in and embedding a strong risk culture

  • Adequately defining your firm’s risk culture: key considerations
  • What is the role of senior management in instilling a sound risk culture across the organization
  • What are the main barriers and challenges in embedding risk culture?
  • Rewarding adherence and compliance to risk-based behavior – pros and cons

11:50am

Presentation: Mix and Match - Finding the right ingredients for stress-testing to measure OR capital

  • Stressing losses vs. conducting scenario analysis
  • Choice of methodology
  • Source of data
  • Choice of scenarios
  • Technology’s role

12:30pm

Lunch

1:50pm

Panel discussion: Going rogue – how do we control Rogue Traders?

  • What does the industry need to do to inhibit or control the frequency of rogue-trading, especially in the current economic climate?
  • Who shoulders the blame? Is it ORM’s shortcomings or a lack of recognition of necessity of ORM from management?
  • Is the answer more regulation? More stringent? How do regulations need to evolve to correct this problem?

2:40pm

Presentation: ORM for new products

  • Identifying key risks that are applicable to the product
  • Assessing the risk for each process and sub-process

3:10pm

Afternoon coffee break

3:40pm

Presentation: Out of industry perspective of ORM

  • How do non-financials tackle the issue of Operational Risk management?

4:10pm

Panel discussion: More regulations or better systems?

  • Are more regulations (volume / quality) the answer to reduce future operational risk events or is it down to better controls, systems and technology?
  • Reserving capital too passive?
  • One organization’s faults doesn’t mean the whole industry has similar shortcomings
  • Better enforcement of current regulations?

5:00pm

Closing remarks

5:10pm

Cocktail reception

7:00pm

End of day one

 

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