FIMA Europe 2021
16 - 17 June, 2021
Online (CEST)
Day One – Tue 19 November 2019
8:00 am - 8:55 am Registration and Welcome Coffee
8:55 am - 9:00 am Assessing the Data Landscape in Global Financial Services Today
9:00 am - 9:20 am Opening Keynote with Live Polling – Lessons from the Front Line: 5 Sure Bets as You Build Your Data-Driven Business
• How to build the right data team to deliver your data strategy
• Old processes you can do without, new ones you can’t
• Tools and technology that can genuinely help you deliver data driven business transformation
• Which partnerships inside and outside the business will be strategically important?
9:20 am - 9:40 am Keynote with Live Polling – How to Turn Data Governance into New Commercial Opportunities for Your Business
- How can new regulation create new opportunities for your data?
- How to turn investment in meeting regulations into new opportunities for your data organisation
- What are the measurable benefits of continuous investment in managing data and generating insights?
- How to work with industry partners to transform your data into new revenue
9:40 am - 10:15 am Panel Discussion with Live Polling – How Can You Modernise Your Data Strategy to Optimise What You Have And be Poised to Take Advantage of Emerging Capabilities?
- Why is a focus on data quality still a cornerstone of the strongest data strategy?
- How can you build in flexibility and scale as you modernise your strategy to capture all the capabilities available today?
- What kind of team do you need to build in order to extract even more insights from your data?
- Which tools will be the most helpful as you seek to monetise your data?
10:15 am - 10:55 am Networking Break
Innovating to Comply and Drive Growth
10:55 am - 11:20 am Leadership Interview - Key Principles of Data Ethics Required for Future Information Journeys to Effectively Manage Horizon Risk
- How have attitudes to compliance evolved since 2008?
- Different lessons learned leading compliance teams for global Banks, Asset Managers and Insurers
- How can better practices – such as data management - contribute to the speed and accuracy of compliance?
- What can compliance teams and their business partners today and in the future do to continuously innovate in the way they work with regulators?
11:20 am - 11:40 am Keynote with Live Polling – Keynote with Live Polling – Data Passport: Is Your Financial Data Really Safe to Travel?
11:40 am - 12:15 pm Fireside Chat with Live Polling – How Can You Leverage Insights from Your Data to Reshape Your Organisation and Create New Value for Your Clients?
12:15 pm - 12:35 pm Keynote with Live Polling – How to Effectively Leverage AI, ML and Intelligent Automation to Manage Risk and Drive Compliance
- Adopting ML, AI and Intelligent Automation as a transformative force: demystify complexity, augment the development lifecycle, manage trust and operationalize use cases
- Manage Risks: concrete examples in risk identification, measurement & assessment, monitoring and management.
- Driving Compliance: How we use Cognitive Services and Intelligent Automation to increase AML investigation lifecycle efficiency?
- The role of the Chief Data Officer in supporting the risk and compliance departments with these new technologies
12:35 pm - 1:10 pm Keynote Panel with Live Polling – How Can You Successfully Balance Accelerating Innovation from Data, Containing the Risk and Ensuring Compliance?
Moderator:
David Lindop Partner, Data and Analytics EY Financial Services
Speakers:
Rick Hawkins Chief Data Officer, Global Risk and Finance HSBC
Marie Nemond Chief Data Officer Pictet Group
Harsharan Niijar Chief Data Officer Mizuho
John Mallinder Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Data and AI Microsoft
David Lindop Partner, Data and Analytics EY Financial Services
Speakers:
Rick Hawkins Chief Data Officer, Global Risk and Finance HSBC
Marie Nemond Chief Data Officer Pictet Group
Harsharan Niijar Chief Data Officer Mizuho
John Mallinder Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Data and AI Microsoft
- What are the unique opportunities presented by the continuing revolution in data, analytics and intelligent automation?
- New risks and fundamental changes to the nature of existing risks brought about by new techniques and technology
- How do we achieve the right balance between innovation and risk management?
- How do we ensure that control is designed into new architectures, not applied retrospectively?
- How do we build and retain the right blend of business and technology skills to operate in this new and rapidly evolving environment?
1:10 pm - 2:10 pm Networking Lunch
1:10 pm - 2:10 pm MarkLogic Lunch Workshop: How Conventional Approaches to Managing Data are Out-of-Date and Failing
Explore how next-generation data management platforms and managed services are enabling organisations to exploit their data more quickly, more cost-effectively and with greater agility
TRACKS
TRACK A – Future of Compliance, Governance and Reporting
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm Opening remarksTRACK A – Future of Compliance, Governance and Reporting
2:15 pm - 2:35 pm Regulator Case Study – How is the Role of the FCA Evolving to Keep Pace with Rapid Changes in the Way Data is Required and Managed?- How has the FCA organization evolved since 2008?
- How does the new data organization change the way FCA operates?
- What kinds of information is the FCA most interested in today?
- How will reporting and regulation continue to shift and change into the near future?

Steven Green
Head of Central Data Services, Innovation, Strategy and Competition DivisionFinancial Conduct Authority

TRACK A – Future of Compliance, Governance and Reporting
2:35 pm - 2:55 pm Innovation Use Case – How to Simplify Complex On-boarding and KYC Activities so You can Comply Sooner and Realize Faster Time to Revenue- Should KYC be seen as a program rather than a project?
- How can Entity Data cross-usage help improving efficiency and reducing costs?
- The Utility model as a best practice for efficiency
- Leveraging onboarding and KYC activities to drive further business growth
TRACK A – Future of Compliance, Governance and Reporting
2:55 pm - 3:05 pm Innovation Spotlight - Break the Bottleneck: Speed Up Your Vendor Onboarding ProcessTRACK A – Future of Compliance, Governance and Reporting
3:05 pm - 3:40 pm Panel Discussion with Live Polling – How can You Adapt Your Data Governance Strategy so it is Fit for the Age of Analytics?- How is data governance in an analytics environment different from other environments?
- What are the key considerations when designing and implementing a new data governance strategy?
- How to measure the success of your new data governance strategy
- Who inside and outside the business can help you to sustain data governance best practices in an analytics environment?
TRACK B – Future of Third-Party Data
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm Opening remarksTRACK B – Future of Third-Party Data
2:15 pm - 2:50 pm Case Study Interactive – Rethinking How to Handle Market Data Contracts from a Cost and Compliance Perspective- 15 minute Presentation
- 10 minutes Group Work
- 10 minutes Exchange

Tristan Dehaan
Global Head of Market Data Purchasing & Vendor ManagementAegon Asset Management

TRACK B – Future of Third-Party Data
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm Innovation Use Case – The Market Data Cloud: A Blueprint for Adoption· Why is the cloud ready for market data prime time?
· How do you get there: Step by Step approach
· Advice, pitfalls and considerations for adoption
TRACK B – Future of Third-Party Data
3:10 pm - 3:45 pm Fireside Chat with Live Polling – How can you Best Integrate Alternative Data and Real-Time Data Alongside Existing Market Data Feeds without Disrupting Ongoing Processes?- What is driving change in the alternative data landscape?
- Which new data marketplaces should you consider?
- Which commercial models are available to buy alternative data?
- How to keep costs low when integrating new and existing data
TRACK C – Future of Innovation, Analytics and Insight
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm Opening remarksTRACK C – Future of Innovation, Analytics and Insight
2:15 pm - 2:35 pm Practitioner Use Case - Is the Future of Intelligence Only Artificial? Why Data Governance and Data Quality are the Foundations for Innovation, Analytics and InsightTRACK C – Future of Innovation, Analytics and Insight
2:35 pm - 2:55 pm Practitioner Use Case – Timely Access to Data & Insights in a Growing Technology LandscapeAt Yorkshire Building Society our purpose is to provide people with real help with real life challenges. This relies on data from a myriad of sources and as digital channels continue to grow they drive further diversity in to our data landscape. This diversity creates a need for an appropriate data integration strategy for points of intersection, where data can unite to feed customer and business insights. What are the key points of this strategy and how does modern technology support it?
TRACK C – Future of Innovation, Analytics and Insight
2:55 pm - 3:05 pm Innovation Spotlight – AI Driven Data Discovery Driving Privacy and Security by Design and Enabling Compliance and Data InsightsTRACK C – Future of Innovation, Analytics and Insight
3:05 pm - 3:40 pm Panel Discussion with Live Polling – How can you Develop Better Data Governance and Analytics Capabilities that can be Scaled to Maximise Enterprise-wide Impact?- Investing in the best analytical tools available not just the most expensive ones
- Which tools should you invest in once you are ready to do analytics?
- Why does your business need scaleable tools more than ever before?
- How to identify where tools have made most impact at a tactical level in order to scale out the best ones
- How to find the best tools available today that precisely fit your business’ needs?
Interactive Sessions and Small Group Discussions
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Synergy Workshop A – Are Knowledge Graphs the Secret to Active Metadata?Unifying your data in a knowledge graph allows you to manage all metadata—including a firm’s reference data, master data, and business glossary—while reconciling internal data definitions with external definitions like regulatory requirements and standards.Instead of repeatedly assembling data needed for each regulation or project, a knowledge graph creates a single, unified and reusable view of firm-wide data regardless of format, line of business, platform, or data volume, velocity, and variety. Its flexible data model accepts new data sources and definitions seamlessly, integrates layers of real-world knowledge, and allows for investigation informed by the metadata. Learn how a knowledge graph can lead to an increase of 200% in metadata quality with technology leaders from leading banks.
Interactive Sessions and Small Group Discussions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Synergy Workshop B – Getting the Fundamentals Right for an End-to-End Managed Data Solution3:40 pm - 4:10 pm Networking break
TRACKS
TRACK A – Future of Compliance, Governance and Reporting
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm Practitioner Use Case - Embedding a Governance for Consistent Data Quality Issues Management and Remediation- How is data governance evolving as regulations and technology continue to change?
- Why is data quality management always a foundation for good data governance?
- How can automation play the most useful role in your data management strategy?
- When can AI and ML make a positive impact in your approach to data analytics?
TRACK A – Future of Compliance, Governance and Reporting
4:30 pm - 5:05 pm Fireside Chat with Live Polling – How will Demands on Data for Reporting and Compliance Change as Banking Continues to become More Open and Digital?- How has digital and open banking changed commercial and retail banking so far?
- What are the specific implications for data management?
- How can you adapt your data strategy to continue to compete?
- What will the future of data management for commercial and retail banks look like?
TRACK B – Future of Third-Party Data
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm Practitioner Use Case – How to Drive Better Outcomes from Future Partnerships with Market Data Providers- What should you look for from a good market data partnership?
- Lessons learned negotiating the best outcomes with market data providers over the years
- How can you strike the right balance so that the relationship is a win-win?
- Where will market data come from in the future?
TRACK B – Future of Third-Party Data
4:30 pm - 5:05 pm Oxford-Style Debate – Oxford-Style Debate – Utilities are a Highly Competitive, Cost Effective Solution to Managing Ever Increasing Volumes of Data – For and AgainstFor:
• Utilities deliver savings for longer
• Utilities are the lowest burden option when optimising costs
Against:
• Re-negotiating with market data suppliers is the only way to get the best pricing
• Utilities only benefit the service provider
TRACK C – Future of Innovation, Analytics and Insight
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm Innovation Use Case - Data on Demand for Analytics and InvestigationsTRACK C – Future of Innovation, Analytics and Insight
4:30 pm - 5:05 pm Fireside Chat - How Can You Truly Partner with the Business on Reducing Complexity Across Your Data Architecture?- What leads to complexity in your architecture?
- How can you detect and prevent complexity developing earlier on?
- Who in the business do you need to influence in order to keep things simple?
- How can you consistently drive simplicity as the business increasingly demands newer tech and capabilities?
Interactive Sessions and Small Group Discussions
4:10 pm - 5:30 pm CDO Leadership Boardroom Hosted by Elaine Priest, Chief Data Officer, Royal Bank of Scotland- Data as a key to successful digital transformation
- Turning governance into opportunity
- Becoming a master storyteller
- with data
- Navigating the new ethics of data management
- Building data teams of the future
- Data for responsible investment
5:05 pm - 5:10 pm Transit Time
Future Technology for Data Management and Analytics
Future of Data and Analytics in Financial Services
5:10 pm - 5:30 pm Keynote with Live Polling - Is Cloud ready for Financial Services?- How is Cloud fundamentally shifting the bar on what we do and how we do it?
- With AI and ML ever more ubiquitous, are we really living in an imagined future already?
- What are the trade-offs when using the Cloud in terms of control, tax and disaster management?
- Where will Cloud disrupt traditional financial services next?
Future of Data and Analytics in Financial Services
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm Dragon’s Den with Chilled Beers – Which Exciting New Fintechs can Help You Take Your Next Steps in Data Management, Analytics, Compliance and Growth?Get a sneak peek into the most innovative technology offerings to see how they can help solve some of your biggest data pain points! Join our dragons during this exciting session, where you will hear from innovative start-up technology firms as they present their offerings in a bid to win first place. Listen up as the dragons’ review the technologies’ benefits to your business, predict their future success and deliver their verdicts.
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm Private Reception: London Craft Beer Tasting Hosted by AxiomSL
6:15 pm - 6:20 pm Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
London Frost Fair Networking Reception
6:20 pm - 8:20 pm Networking Reception
Relax and unwind with all your colleagues and peers and make new contacts too!