Technology Advisory Committee

CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee
1155 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20581

January 21, 2014

Agenda

10:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

  • Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia, Chairman, TAC

  • CFTC Commissioners
   

10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Panel I: Swap Data Reporting

 
  • CFTC Data Priorities and Path Forward

  • Witnesses

  • Srinivas Bangarbale, Deputy Director, Office of Data and Technology
  • Vince McGonagle, Director, Division of Market Oversight
  • Matt Hunter, Deputy Director, Surveillance, Division of Market Oversight
  • Ananda Radhakrishnan, Director, Division of Clearing and Risk
  • Gary Barnett, Director, Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight
  • Sayee Srinivasan, Acting Chief Economist, Office of the Chief Economist

  • Open Discussion
   

12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

   

1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Panel II: Commission’s Concept Release on Automated Trading

  • Concept Release on Automated Trading

  • Overview of Concept Release & Comments – Sebastian Pujol Schott, Associate Director, Division of Market Oversight

  • Witnesses
  • Rob Creamer, President & Chief Executive Officer, Geneva Trading
  • Caitlin Kline, Derivatives Specialist, Better Markets
  • Peter Cramton, Professor, University of Maryland
  • Stuart Kaswell, Executive Vice President & Managing Director, General Counsel, Managed Funds Association

  • Open Discussion
   

2:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Break

   

3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Panel III: Swap Execution Facilities / Made Available to Trade Determinations

  • Made Available to Trade Determinations

  • Overview – Vince McGonagle, Director, Division of Market Oversight

  • Witnesses
  • Sunil Hirani, Chief Executive Officer, trueEX
  • Alex Evis, Head of Market Structure Strategy, Global Credit, Goldman Sachs
  • Stephen Berger, Director, Government & Regulatory Policy, Citadel
  • Mike Hennessy, Assistant Vice President, Treasury & Capital Markets, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

  • Open Discussion

  • Other SEF Issues

  • Scott Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, Tradition

  • Open Discussion

  • Confirmation and SEF footnote 195
  • Cross-border concerns
  • Post-trade complications resulting from the “embargo rule”
  • SEF clearing issues (pre-trade credit checks & void ab initio)
   

4:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Closing Remarks

 
  • Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia, Chairman, TAC