PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Aug. 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Commercial Paper issuers, investors, and money market executives will head to iiBIG's Commercial Paper & Money Market Symposium, scheduled for September 12-13, 2012 in New York City.
Early list of pre-registered attendees include 20 Gates Management LLC, Annaly Capital Management, Banca IMI Securities Corp / Romulus Funding, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Blackrock, Capital Advisors Group, Citi, Clifford Chance LLP, DB Advisors, Deutsche Bank, Farm Credit Bank, FDIC, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federated Investors, Fitch Ratings, Itau Unibanco SA New York Branch, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., Mayer Brown LLP, Moody's Investors Service, Morgan Stanley, PNC, OCC, Rabobank International, RBC Capital Markets, RCap Securities, SG Americas Securities, LLC , Société Générale, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, SEC, Standard & Poor's, T. Rowe Price, Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, The World Bank, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Ziff Brother Investments, Zions Bank Capital Markets, and more.
Commercial Paper conference sponsors include Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Clifford Chance, Crédit Agricole CIB, Credit Suisse AG, Mayer Brown, Moody's Investors Service, and Standard & Poor's
This year's conference will address key issues such as:
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Money Market Reform – floating NAV, holdback on redemptions; capital requirements; institutional versus retail investor reactions to reform – by September, will we know the direction the SEC will take?
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Bank Liquidity Management – how has the liquidity management strategy of large banks changed? What is the current implementation timetable for the LCR?
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Regulatory Developments – that have affected or have the potential to affect ABCP, the proposed Volcker Rule; conflict of interest rule; risk-based capital rule; retention rule; Franken Amendment; disclosure rules, including Dodd-Frank and Reg AB II; proposed changes in the Investment Company Act of 1940 and other related issues.
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Money Market Yields – how long will Institutional and retail investors remain invested in this sector with such low returns? If the federal government does not raise rates until 2014, can investors remain earning close to zero for two more years?
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Asset-Backed Commercial Paper – what is the future of a market that is now roughly 30% of what it was at its peak in 2007?; will the ABCP market continue to shrink or begin to stabilize?; what needs to happen for the ABCP market to begin to grow again?; how will the adoption of Basel III impact the ABCP market?
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What can we learn from the ECB's decision to cut reserve rates to zero?
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How have rating agency bank downgrades affected money funds ability to buy P-2 rates banks?
- Are there new products which the evolving market has made viable?
For complete agenda details, speaking faculty, and other conference information, please visit http://www.iibig.com/CommercialPaper.
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