Co-hosted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the SIFMA Financial Management Society (SIFMA FMS), the National Conference on the Securities Industry features senior executives on the latest developments in securities regulation, auditing and accounting requirements.

Gain insight into regulatory and industry initiatives for the coming year with:

• A senior executive’s view of the securities industry
• The analyst perspective of the banking and securities industries
• Recent and pending accounting and auditing pronouncements from FASB and industry experts
• PCAOB feedback on inspections of broker-dealer audits
• Open Q&A session with representatives from the SEC, FINRA and CFTC

Participate in-person or via webcast.

ISDA Morning Briefing: Professional Responsibility Issues when Advising on Virtual Currency Swaps and ICOs
October 18, 2018 in New York

This event will feature panels on many aspects of virtual currency swaps and ICOs.

Derivatives Disputes: Litigating and Arbitrating the ISDA Master Agreements
October 22, 2018 in Sydney

This conference discusses considerations for market participants in the derivatives markets which dispute resolution mechanism to adopt, in particular focusing on certain issues which may be relevant for Asia-Pacific. . If arbitration is chosen, we will discuss how to use the 2013 ISDA Arbitration Guide and further drafting considerations beyond the issues covered by the Guide itself. We will also consider the recent work ISDA has undertaken in terms of possibly updating the Guide. If litigation is chosen, we will discuss various cases from domestic and international litigations involving sell-side and buy-side firms as well provide some observations on expert witnesses and enforcement. This conference will also consider the 2018 ISDA Choice of Court and Governing Law Guide.

2018 ISDA Annual Australia Conference
October 23, 2018 in Sydney

The agenda at this event will include benchmark reform, clearng incentives, systemic risk, margining, a global capital framework, the documentation revolution, and digitalization.  A myriad of industry experts will be speaking. The keynote address will be given by Cathie Armour, Commissioner, Australian Securities & Investments Commission.

ISDA Symposium® Understanding the New US Stay Regulations and 2018 ISDA Resolution Stay Protocol
October 25, 2018 in New York

This symposium offers an ideal opportunity to understand the ISDA 2018 U.S. Resolution Stay Protocol, which ISDA recently published in response to U.S. regulations requiring limitation on close-out rights and other remedies in financial contracts.  These regulations have implications for almost all market participants that transact with U.S. G-SIBs and U.S. operations of non-U.S. G-SIBs.  The symposium will also provide background information on other ISDA resolution stay protocols and the interplay of these protocols, as well as the ISDA 2018 U.S. Resolution Stay Protocol, with relevant resolution insolvency regimes, including the Orderly Liquidation Authority under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

ISDA Symposium® Trading Book Capital: Market & Counterparty Risk
October 25, 2018 in Tokyo

The post-crisis regulatory reform highlighted an increasing focus of the regulators on the capital requirements for trading book activities.

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book will have profound consequences on the way market risk capital is calculated for trading businesses. It changes every aspect of market risk models, introducing a new and more sophisticated Standardised Approach as well as making fundamental changes to internal models. Furthermore it redefines the boundary between the trading book and banking books having significant implications for desk structures.

In December 2017, the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS) also released the revised framework for Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) with a major change to the previous framework, the removal of internal models approach. Banks will now have to choose between the Standardised approach and the Basic approach to calculate the CVA capital charge.

Further, we look into the Standardised Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) that will replace the current exposure method (CEM) and is being considered in other areas of the regulatory capital framework.

ISDA leads the industry working groups on those major regulatory reforms and the conference speakers are all expert practitioners who have been directly involved in the development and evolution of the financial regulations.

November
SIFMA AMG Operations Workshop on ETFs