Opening Keynote Session:

• Heng Swee Keat, Managing director, Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Wee Ee Cheong, Chairman, Association of Banks, Singapore
• David Eldon, Chairman, The Asian Banker Summit

Summit Keynote: The Leadership Dialogue: ‘The long road back to a market led economy’

Featuring Neel Kashkari - Former Interim Assistant Secretary at the US Treasury for Financial Stability heading the implementation of the TARP Programme and currently Managing Director at PIMCO

• Is growth in an era of government intervention and sustained uncertainties possible?
• How long should the Keynesian approach to averting a global economic crisis, continue?
• What has changed and what will remain the same in the way that the US will develop its regulatory regime?
• The relationship between the US and the rest of the world in liberalization of the financial services industry.

Panel Discussion with, Sir George Mathewson, Former chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Ásgeir Jónsson, Chief Economist, Arion Bank, Iceland and author of the book “Why Iceland?”

Dialogue co-chaired by Emmanuel Daniel, President & CEO, The Asian Banker and Gordian Gaeta, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker.

Delivering sustainable liquidity for a growing Asian market

New trading systems are breaking into Asia, but views on their structure and management vary greatly between markets. This must attend session will explore key stake-holder perspectives, with focus on alternative trading venues and access to dark pools in Asia, broker-led vs. neutral dark pools and the role of smart order routing in the proliferation of new trading sites. The session will further address transparency and regulatory questions and how the region is likely to deal with them moving forward.

Speakers and Panelists include:

• Ned Phillips: CEO – Chi-East
• Bahar Brown, VP Electronic Trading Sales, Nomura
• Gregory Henry, Head of Singapore Office, Liquidnet Asia
• Paul Egan, Managing Director, Regional Head of Intermediaries and Market Infrastructures, GTS Asia Pacific, Citi
• Christian A Edelmann, Partner, Financial Services, Oliver Wyman
• Bharat Shah, Product Director - BaNCS Securities Trading, TCS

Moderated by Zennon Kapron, Founder/Manager, Kapronasia

How will regulation in the Derivatives market affect growth?

This session will examine how regulators are viewing the growth of the derivatives industry and what regulations do they expect to see in the near future. The discussion will revolve around both the exchange traded and OTC derivatives to understand recent trends and viewpoints.
In this session we will answer questions like: -

1. Will there be a steady and irreversible flow of trades from the OTC market to Exchanges – to bring in standardization.
2. Can there be any form of self-regulation?
3. The Basel Committees recent ruling on counter-party trading risk

Speakers and Panelists include

• Jane Diplock, Chairman New Zealand Securities Commission and Chairman, Executive Committee, IOSCO
• Alberto Pravettoni, Managing Director, Corporate Strategy, London Clearing House
• Martin Maurer, secretary general, Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland
• Nawal Roy, Managing Partner, Shobhit Capital Group

Moderated by Dr Tim Rowlands, Director of Research, Vector Risk P/L

Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in the Commodities Derivative Market: Special Focus on Asia

How will increasing regulation, improving connectivity and growing importance of risk management, affect commodity trading over the next few years? With the ever-increasing appetite for commodities and natural resources in Asia (esp China) how will this growth pan out in the future and what is the role of exchanges, liquidity pools, alternatives exchanges, infrastructure providers, custodians and banks in developing the Asian Commodity Derivatives Market.

Speakers and Panelists include:

• Thomas McMahon, CEO of Singapore Mercantile Exchange
• Nirmalendu Jajodia, Chief - Technology and Operations, National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), India
• Alberto Pravettoni, Managing Director, Corporate Strategy, London Clearing House
• Jeffrey Tan, Senior Director of Product and Business Development, SICOM

Moderated by Nawal Roy, Managing Partner, Shobhit Capital Group

The future landscape of exchanges and the rise of market places for alternative asset classes

As the world takes stock of the worst global recession in a generation, the exchanges industry continues to face its own “perfect storm” of declining volumes, lower trading costs and increased competition. In this session we will discuss:-

• Should all exchanges de-mutualize
• Impact of technology and connectivity on the exchanges

The session will then move on to discuss how new market places are evolving to cater to the alternative assets market. Traditionally there have been a variety of alternative asset classes - from real estate to limited partnership interests in investment funds – and investors have been locked up in these investments for periods as long as a decade. Although this lack of liquidity has not been an issue in the past, with the recent worldwide economic crisis, investors are beginning to realize the true benefits of liquidity. With this realization has come the rise of active secondary markets for many of these alternative asset classes.

Speakers and Panelists include

• Ito Warsito, Chairman of Asian and Oceanian Stock Exchange Federation (AOSEF), and President Director of Indonesia Stock Exchange
• Thomas McMahon, CEO of Singapore Mercantile Exchange
• Jason Sambanju, Director, Paul Capital Partners
• Jeremy Smith, Chief Strategy Officer, Second Market

Moderated by Neil Parekh, Partner, Starin Capital

How International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs) can play a larger role in bringing together diverse markets and asset classes under one roof.

With more demanding requirements to manage risks and increased access to liquidity, financial entities are looking to national and international CSDs to improve the flow of funds across geographies and markets. How will these changes evolve in Asia? How will the post trade world evolve in embracing the necessary changes and how is technology making this change possible?

Speakers and Panelists include

• Kim Taylor, President, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Clearing House
• Ng Chee Kiang, Director, Chief Representative, Euroclear Bank Singapore
• Dipen Mehta, Chief Architect, Financial Markets System Development, Standard Chartered

Moderated by Zennon Kapron, Founder/Manager, Kapronasia

Infrastructure Standardisation, Automation, Fast trading and Associated Risks

This session will examine these changes, the keys to overcoming challenges in manual intervention and tactical approaches to improving automation and increasing straight-through processing across the transaction life cycle.
This session will cover:

• How is risk management being handled in the implementation of a faster and better trade and post-trade infrastructure? Is it safe?
• How important is Latency and Co-location: A look at benchmarks and Way Forward
• Will regulation play a part in the way fast trade evolves?

Speakers and Panelists include

• Dipen Mehta, Chief Architect, Financial Markets System Development, Standard Chartered
• Ambreesh Khanna, Industry Vice President in Oracle's Financial Services Global Business Unit
• Nirmalendu Jajodia, Chief - Technology and Operations, National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), India
• David Stanton, VP Enterprise Sales, Asia, Cable & Wireless
• Helen Baker, Director, Head of Relationship Management South Asia, Euroclear Bank Singapore Representative Office

Moderated by Nawal Roy, Managing Partner, Shobhit Capital Group

Algorithmic trading of equities, bonds and forex: As Algorithmic trading enters the main stream there are various trends to watch out for. We will discuss some of these in this session:-

• The convergence of the front and back office
• Adoption across various asset classes
• Use of algorithms to meet regulatory requirements
• What will not change with the onset of increasing algorithmic trading
• What is the future of High Frequency Trading

Speakers and Panelists include

• Bahar Brown, VP Electronic Trading Sales, Nomura
• Andy C. Chan, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
• Brian Brown, Author of “Chasing the Same Signals: How Black-Box Trading Influences Stock Markets from Wall Street to Shanghai.”

Moderated by Steve Edge, CEO, AsiaEtrading.com

Automating corporate action: Is STP in corporate actions through automation a realistic aim? How successful have firms been in automating their response to corporate actions and what are the challenges involved in making this a widely implementable solution across Asia.

Speakers and Panelists include

• Thibaud De-Maintenant, Head of Domestic Custody Services, Asia Pacific, Deutsche Bank AG
• Kees Middendorp, Senior Consultant, Corporate Actions, Smartstream
• Srinivasan Gopalakrishna, Head, Technology Solution Delivery - Securities Services, Standard Chartered Bank

Moderated by Zennon Kapron, Founder/Manager, Kapronasia

Closing Keynote Session: Can Asia be the next Iceland?

Featuring an in-depth conversation with Ásgeir Jónsson, Chief Economist, Arion Bank, Iceland and author of the book “Why Iceland?”

1. An insider’s account of the events that unfolded to lead Iceland to one of the most far-reaching economic tragedies of our times.
2. Lessons learnt from the Icelandic crisis and how governments can be more prepared to avoid a similar situation.

Contributory Remarks from Sir George Mathewson, Former chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Dialogue co-chaired by Emmanuel Daniel, President & CEO, The Asian Banker and Gordian Gaeta, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker.

Post-conference activities

• Visit to the leading domestic banks e-banking, transactional services and risk management (only for delegates from banks deemed foreign and non-competitive)
• A visit to and briefing from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Singapore’s plans as a regional financial center. (for approved banker delegates only)
• A visit to and briefing from the Singapore Exchange on recent initiatives and collaborations to make Singapore a leading electronic exchange
• Post-conference Workshops on risk, technology and operations