Martin J. Williams

Vice President, Reference Data Product Development
Interactive Data

Martin Williams is recognized as an expert on the creation, collection and distribution of high-quality reference data for use across the financial instrument processing lifecycle. As vice president of Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data’s Reference Data Product Development team, Mr. Williams is responsible for the product strategy and for identifying and developing new business opportunities for Interactive Data in the Reference Data market. Since assuming this role, Mr. Williams has led the development and introduction of several completely new reference data offerings including the Business Entity Service which is designed to help clients meet their requirements for managing credit, market and operational risk, and compliance under a variety of global risk management and liquidity risk regulations. Mr. Williams has also been instrumental in the development and implementation of the firm’s next-generation reference data strategy which is bringing to market a set of transformational new services targeting data management and usage throughout the enterprise.

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Data Quality & Value - Financial Institutions Only

Saturday, June 3rd, 2017

11:00 Kickoff of Interactive Roundtables

This is your chance to sit with peers and industry experts to ask questions, share your thoughts, and dive deeper into the subject matter. Each round will last 20 minutes and the moderators will rotate giving you the opportunity to meet with each one.

Roundtable Topics and Moderators:

1.An Analysis Of The Cloud Movement And The Associated Data Management Activities
Josh Lee, Director of Global Industry Marketing, Informatica

2.Establishing Data Quality and Traceability at the Source
Martin J. Williams, Vice President, Reference Data Product Development, Interactive Data

3.Can Data Quality be same for all Financial Institutions
Preetham Kamesh, Head of Data Management Services Business Unit, IGATE Corporation

4.Establishing Enterprise Data Governance: What Does It Take To Execute?
Don Rosenberg, Lead Consultant, Banking and Financial Services, IGATE Corporation

5.Managing The Delta Of Regulatory Data (Across Multiple Compliance Frameworks KYC, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MiFID, FATCA, Canadian And APAC OTC Derivatives)
Mick Furlong, VP Client Success, Americas, Fenergo

6.Practical Approaches To Efficient Data Integration, Provenance And Management
Devesh Shukla, Global Head of Reference Data Product Development, Enterprise Solutions, Bloomberg LP

7. The Importance of Global Entity Data Management & Corporate Hierarchy for Risk & Regulation
Stan Kay, VP Global Alliances & Partnerships, Dun & Bradstreet

8. Machine Learning in Global Banking: Automating Standard Settlement Instructions (SSI) and Other High-risk / High-cost Processes
Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion

Data Governance, Strategy & Execution

Monday, July 3rd, 2017

14:25 Chairperson’s Afternoon Address

15:05 Panel Discussion: Exploring Emerging Tools & Methods To Drive Data Governance Forward

This session will uncover strategies to enable more transparent, collaborative data governance processes across the business. Tools are not a silver bullet, however, clearly defined roles, accountabilities, processes and ongoing stakeholder engagement/communications are critical to sustainability. This panel will delve into the key capabilities for the tools providing traceability from business glossary to critical data elements definitions.
o Gauging financial institution progress with governance programs
o Realizing governance is not just for risk and operations but enterprise wide
o Tackling the challenges associated with IT focused resources and achieving governance outcomes
o Ensuring that governance isn’t financially burdening
o Securing executive buy-in and convincing decision makers of the importance of governance
o How can data quality rules and results connect to the business glossary, report outputs and CDE definition?
o Measuring the quality of the data that underlies specific outputs