SIFMA Annual Meeting 2014


SIFMA Annual Meeting 2014

November 10, 2014
Marriott Marquis New York  

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SIFMA’s marquee event for the capital markets will bring together over 750 leaders of the financial services industry with prominent policymakers and financial media. Renowned keynote speakers and thought leaders will share their perspectives on how the financial services industry will best serve tomorrow's economy.

Sponsorship is now available, and will include excellent branding and networking opportunity as well as the ability to engage this exclusive delegation.

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Click to view this comprehensive guide to all sponsorship opportunities at the SIFMA Annual Conference 2014.

Questions? Contact Antonella DiBello at 212.313.1261 or Diana Serri at 212.313.1258.


Our Sponsors

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Appway
About Appway Client Onboarding – Appway is the global leader in client onboarding for the financial services industry. In an era of soaring global competition and increased regulations, Appway Client Onboarding boosts efficiency, assures legal and tax compliance, and guarantees outstanding client experience. Flexible and agile, Appway’s award-winning Client Onboarding empowers financial institutions to adapt quickly to external pressures and create high-quality digital experiences.
Turning Compliance into a Business Benefit – In October of 2014, Appway presented the results of an in-depth study exploring client onboarding practices, challenges and priorities in wealth management worldwide. The report, co-sponsored by KPMG and SIX Financial Information, illuminates insights from over 200 wealth management and private banking professionals, industry consultants and technology experts. The results reveal significant global trends and challenges facing the industry and offer best practice solutions to transform these challenges into business benefits.
Download the full report here: https://www.appway.com/screen/COBStudy/language/en_US

Contact: Appway Inc., 212 West 35th Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10001 | 917.398.0030 | www.appway.com

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Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real-time financial information to more than 320,000 subscribers globally. Additionally, Bloomberg provides widely-used trading functionality for the fixed income, currency, commodity and equity markets, as well as technology that helps firms convert data into actionable information. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,500 people in 192 locations around the world.

Contact: www.bloomberg.com  
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. is the leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions for broker-dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers globally. Broadridge’s investor communications, securities processing and business process outsourcing solutions help clients reduce their capital investments in operations infrastructure, allowing them to increase their focus on core business activities. With over 50 years of experience, Broadridge’s infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for over 90% of public companies and mutual funds in North America, and processes more than $5 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day. Broadridge employs approximately 6,700 full-time associates in 14 countries. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com

Contact: Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 / 888.237.1900 [email protected] / Broadridge.com

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Deloitte
As a recognized leader in providing audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services to the securities industry, Deloitte serves more than 90 percent of the top 20 securities firms – and audits one-third of those firms, more than any other Big Four firm. Our multi-disciplinary approach allows us to provide regional, national and global services to our clients. Our securities practice is recognized for bringing together teams with diverse experience and knowledge to provide customized solutions for all clients.

Contact: Larry Rosenberg, Partner, Deloitte, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112-0015 | 212.436.4869 | [email protected] | www.deloitte.com/us

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DTCC
With over 40 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From operating facilities, data centers and offices in 15 countries, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the post-trade processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers worldwide. User owned and industry governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to the financial markets. In 2013, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at approximately US$1.6 quadrillion. Its depository provides custody and asset servicing for securities issues from 139 countries and territories valued at US$43 trillion. DTCC’s global trade repository processes tens of millions of submissions per week.

To learn more, please visit www.dtcc.com or follow us on Twitter @The_DTCC.

Contact: Mark Vercruysse, Managing Director, DTCC / 212.855.4151 / [email protected] / www.dtcc.com

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Gibson Dunn is recognized as a leading firm with more than 1,200 lawyers in 18 offices worldwide. Our clients include companies ranging from start-up ventures to multinational corporations across diverse industries. The firm is known for excellent legal service, and our lawyers routinely represent clients in some of the most complex and high-profile transactions and litigation matters in the world. We are also consistently recognized among the leading securities regulation and securities litigation practices, and for having some of the leading securities regulation and securities litigation lawyers in the country by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 and The Best Lawyers in America. Our partners include nationally recognized securities class action defense counsel, as well as a number of former senior officials with the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA (formerly NASD), and the Department of Justice.

Contact: Gene Scalia, Partner, Gibson Dunn, 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 | 202.955.8600 | [email protected] or Mark Shelton, Partner, Gibson Dunn, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166 | 212.351.4000 | [email protected] | www.gibsondunn.com

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Hearsay Social
Hearsay Social empowers global sales forces to efficiently and successfully use social media to attract prospects, retain customers, and grow business. The enterprise-ready solution enables sales representatives to quickly and easily move beyond yesterday’s sales tactics and adopt today’s leading social-selling techniques. The Hearsay Social platform boosts sales productivity and incorporates best practices while ensuring brand integrity and compliance for even the most regulated industries. Tens of thousands of salespeople worldwide use Hearsay Social every day to hear and respond to everything their customers and prospects are saying on top social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Contact: Gary Liu, VP Marketing, Hearsay Social, 185 Berry Street, Suite 3800, San Francisco, CA 94107 / 415.692.6230 / [email protected] / www.hearsaysocial.com

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Kaplan Financial Education
Kaplan Financial Education is a leading global provider of financial licensing and continuing education solutions. We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of professionals prepare for the Insurance, Securities, and CFP® exams. Then helped them maintain licensure through continuing education with live classroom and online courses. Our instructors are not just experienced academics—they’re also practitioners who know what it takes to pass the exams and succeed in the real world. For more information please visit www.kfeducation.com.

Contact: Adam Ellingson, National Corporate Relations – Director, Kaplan Professional Education, 332 Front Street, Suite 501, La Crosse, WI 54601 | O: 608.779.5599, ext. 2486 | F: 608.781.3941 | [email protected] | www.KaplanProfessional.com

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McGladrey
McGladrey℠ meets the diverse needs of domestic and international clients through dedicated teams of financial institutions and asset management industry specialists. As a provider of specialized risk management, accounting, tax, and consulting services, we believe a one-size-fits-all approach is not the way to solve today’s complex business challenges. Our solutions are rooted in a deep understanding of you, your business and your industry. Ask us about Financial Institutions Insights, regulatory Compliance News, Risk Bulletin and Investment Industry Insights e-bulletins delivering news and information critical to financial services industry professionals. Learn more at mcgladrey.com.

Contact: Victor Samuel, JD, MBA, Director – Risk Advisory Services, Northeast Regulatory Compliance Leader, McGladrey LLP, 1185 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 | 212.372.1984 | [email protected] or Howard Shain, CPA, Director – Risk Advisory Services , McGladrey LLP | 212.372.1937 | [email protected] | www.mcgladrey.com

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McGraw Hill Financial
McGraw Hill Financial is a leader in credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics for the global capital and commodity markets. McGraw Hill Financial’s businesses are: (1) Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services helps investors and market participants manage risk through credit ratings, research and analytics; (2) Financial professionals turn to S&P Capital IQ for high-value content across all asset classes; (3) Investors use the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and thousands of other indices produced by S&P Dow Jones Indices across asset classes to measure and monitor global markets; (4) Traders, risk managers, analysts and industry leaders use Platts' price assessments and insights to enable informed decision-making across energy, petrochemical, metals markets and agriculture markets; (5) Companies from more than a dozen industries turn to J.D. Power's quality and customer satisfaction research for actionable consumer insights to help produce better products and services.

Contact: Darlene Rosenkoetter, Director – Federal Government & Public Policy, McGraw Hill Financial, 1200 G Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005 | 202.383.2069 | [email protected] | www.mhfi.com

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National Financial, a Fidelity Investments Company
Choosing the right clearing provider is critical. It can mean the difference between getting the job done and truly succeeding. At National Financial®, we’re committed to supporting every facet of your business and helping you evolve your advice model to drive efficient growth—from strategy and advisor engagement to operations and technology. We offer a comprehensive clearing and custody platform with a dedicated service model, powerful advisor tools, and a source of leading investment solutions. As a Fidelity Investments® company, we leverage the strength, resources, and experience of one of the world’s largest providers of financial services. Learn more: nationalfinancial.com.

Contact: nationalfinancial.com

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PriceMetrix Inc.
PriceMetrix is the first choice in practice management solutions for advisors, managers and executive leaders of wealth management firms in North America. We enable advisors to optimize their business performance, deliver more value to top clients and grow faster using analytics-driven industry best practices. PriceMetrix directly measures aggregated data representing 7 million investors, 500 million transactions, 3 million fee-based accounts, 7 million transactional accounts, and over $3.5 trillion in investment assets. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, we service a notable range of retail wealth management firms within North America. To find out more, please visit www.pricemetrix.com, call us at 1-866-955-0514, or email us at [email protected].

Contact: Shelley Cornforth, Director – Marketing, PriceMetrix Inc., 40 University Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, ON, M5J 1T1 CANADA | 416.955.0514 | [email protected] | www.pricemetrix.com
Promontory Financial Group, LLC
Promontory Financial Group, based in Washington, D.C., is a leading expert in financial risk, regulation, and compliance. The firm helps companies and governments around the world manage complex risk and meet their greatest regulatory challenges. Promontory’s work aims to make its client companies stronger and the financial system safer. From offices in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, including the Middle East, the firm has served clients in more than 50 countries. Eugene A. Ludwig, who served as U.S. comptroller of the currency under President Bill Clinton, founded Promontory in 2001. Promontory draws its expertise from former industry executives and regulators with decades of experience. We advise clients on a range of issues – capital and liquidity planning; enterprise wide and business-unit risk management; anti-money-laundering, consumer protection, and securities compliance; governance; audits, investigations, and forensic reviews; cybersecurity; and privacy and data protection. Visit us at promontory.com and follow us on Twitter @PromontoryFG.

Contact: Eugene A. Ludwig, Founder & CEO, Promontory Financial Group, LLC, 801 17th Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC, 20006 | 202.384.1200 | [email protected] | www.promontory.com

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PwC
PwC's Financial Services Regulatory Practice assists top tier financial institutions in managing and implementing change driven by new regulation and strategic risk management objectives. Now with more than 25 years of experience, PwC was the first major consulting and accounting firm to organize a dedicated regulatory practice.

To meet our clients' evolving needs, we combine our deep team of senior ex-regulators (from the Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC, SEC, CFTC, FINRA and CFPB) and ex-industry executives with experienced risk and industry consultants. Our market knowledge is unparalleled and is enhanced by our leading position as advisor and auditor to the top global banks, asset managers and insurers.

Contact: Dan Ryan, Financial Services Advisory Leader, PwC, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017 | 646.471.8488 | [email protected] | pwcregulatory.com

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Shearman & Sterling LLP
Shearman & Sterling's financial regulatory team advises investment firms, brokers, SEFs/MTFs, exchange, clearing and settlement providers, banks, fund firms, payment service providers and corporations. We have a unique worldwide network with specialists in the world’s major financial and commercial centers. We offer a full global service, advising on the direction and impacts of new regulation, business structures, day-to-day regulatory and compliance issues and regulatory relationships.

Contact: Yasmine Ramos, Legal Secretarial Support, Shearman & Sterling LLP, 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 | 212.848.8370 | [email protected] | www.shearman.com

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SunGard
SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. The primary purpose of these systems is to automate the many detailed processes associated with trading, managing investment portfolios and accounting for investment assets. These solutions address the processing requirements of a broad range of users within financial services, including asset managers, traders, custodians, compliance officers, treasurers, insurers, risk managers, hedge fund managers, plan administrators and clearing agents. In addition, we also provide professional services that focus on application implementation and integration of these solutions and on custom software development. For more information, please visit: http://financialsystems.sungard.com/solutions/collateral-management and http://financialsystems.sungard.com/solutions/post-trade-processing.

Contact: Karina Rousseau, Product Marketing Director, SunGard, 340 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10173 | 646.445.1042 | [email protected] | http://financialsystems.sungard.com/solutions/collateral-management | http://financialsystems.sungard.com/solutions/post-trade-processing

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Tradeweb
Tradeweb Markets builds and operates many of the world’s most efficient financial marketplaces, providing market participants with greater transparency and efficiency in fixed income and derivatives. Focused on applying technology to enhance efficiency throughout the trade lifecycle, Tradeweb pioneered straight-through-processing in fixed income and now supports marketplaces for over 20 asset classes with electronic execution, processing, post-trade analysis and market data in an integrated workflow. Tradeweb Markets serves the dealer-to-customer markets through the Tradeweb institutional platform, inter-dealer trading through Dealerweb, and the retail fixed income community on Tradeweb Direct. Customers rely on Tradeweb to drive the evolution of fixed income and derivatives through flexible trading architecture and more efficient, transparent markets.

Contact: Tradeweb Markets, Customer Relations, Tradeweb, 1177 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 | 800.541.2268 | [email protected] | www.tradeweb.com

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Truphone
Truphone Mobile Recording is a purpose-built recording service that facilitates financial organizations in complying with industry regulation, such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the US and FCA regulations in the UK. With Truphone Mobile Recording, you can record, encrypt and store your calls, simply and securely. Whether you need to comply with financial legislation or just keep track of your important conversations, Truphone can help. And you don’t need to change the way you use your mobile phone. There are no codes to dial or applications to worry about and it won’t have any impact on your browsing or email experience. Highly secure and totally flexible, Truphone Mobile Recording adapts to your existing systems so your teams stay productive wherever they go. Truphone Mobile Recording is powered by the Truphone network, which connects over 200 countries with a single global infrastructure.

Contact: Mary Sullivan-Gleeson, BT Channel Manager, Truphone, Inc., 501 Seventh Avenue, Suite 402 New York, NY 10011 │201.637.1772 │ [email protected] or Joe Zembryski, Global Client Director, Truphone, Inc. │201.984.7775 │ [email protected]www.truphone.com/tmr

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Vectra Networks
Vectra Networks is the leading innovator in real-time detection of in-progress cyber attacks. The Vectra X-series breach detection platform continuously monitors network traffic to automatically detect any phase of an ongoing cyber attack. The platform provides visually intuitive reports of hosts under attack and context about what the attacker is doing. Vectra automatically prioritizes attacks that pose the greatest business risk, enabling organizations to quickly make decisions on where to focus their time and resources. Vectra Networks’ investors include Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, IA Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures. The company’s headquarters are in San Jose, Calif. Visit www.vectranetworks.com for more information.

Contact: www.vectranetworks.com

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XTRAC Solutions
XTRAC Solutions, an independently operated Fidelity Investments company, provides business processing, workflow automation and document management. With its solutions used extensively across Fidelity and by many other companies, XTRAC has over 20 years of industry experience managing complex, mission-critical business processes that support thousands of users and millions of work items annually. XTRAC delivers excellence in business results and customer satisfaction for all its global clients.

Contact: William Lathram, SVP of Sales, XTRAC Solutions, 245 Summer Street, MZ: V3B, Boston, MA 02210 | 855.WRK.FLOW | 603.791.7043 | [email protected] | www.xtracsolutions.com

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