FT View from the Top - The Future of Finance
October 7, 2010 | Harvard Club New York

The 4th annual View from the Top conference titled "The Future of Finance," gathered world-class speakers to debate the essential questions affecting financial institutions today and to share their thoughts on the long-term outlook and most critical issues that will define the sector in the years ahead. This one-day conference was co-chaired by the Financial Times' Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator and Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor.

Highlights included contributions by:

Larry Summers
Director
National Economic Council		 George Soros
Chairman
Soros Fund Management LLC
Mohamed El-Erian
CEO and Co-CIO
PIMCO
 Robert E. Rubin
Co-Chairman
Council on Foreign Relations
Former US Secretary of the
Treasury
 
As well as the following speakers:

Jaime Caruana, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements
E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Gary DeWaal, Senior Managing Director & Group General Counsel, Newedge
Andrew Freeman, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Financial Services
Till Guldimann, Vice Chairman, SunGard
Edward S. Knight, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Chief Regulatory Officer, The NASDAQ OMX Group
James Malgieri, CEO Broker-Dealer Services, BNY Mellon
Chris Osborne, CEO, Troika Dialog USA
Harry Samuel, Global Co-Head of Fixed Income & Currencies and Head of Global Treasury Services, RBC Capital Markets
Deven Sharma, President, Standard & Poor's
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia University
Min Zhu, Special Advisor to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Top of the agenda were regulatory issues. The Dodd-Frank Act, now signed into law, is the most extensive and comprehensive overhaul of financial institutions since the depression. In America and around the world, the flow of impending regulatory changes will impact the oversight of financial institutions, the structuring of derivatives and financial products, banks' liquidity and capital rules, marketing of hedge funds, bank-client relationships and the operation of rating agencies, among others.

At the same time and coupled with these challenges, the new scenario presents a series of growth opportunities that financial institutions have to be prepared to explore and seize, such as the rapid development of sustainable investment, and expansion in emerging markets.

The global financial crisis has radically altered the landscape in which financial institutions operate. Financial executives, regulators and policy-makers at the highest levels in national governments are still grappling with the aftermath of the crisis while at the same time reshaping regulation and rebuilding an industry completely transformed by the new environment.

Who Attended:

Senior-level executives from the financial industry including: investment banks, mutual funds, financial services firms, pension firms, insurance companies, hedge funds and private equity firms. Additionally, the subject matter would be of interest to senior level executives from Fortune 1000 corporations with cross-functional responsibility and overall concern for the trajectory of their companies.

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